Badger fans

[Panther-Sheik]

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Had a very good time. Good discussion and fun with Badger fans tailgating next to us. Even shared their food and a freshly made margarita or two. (Thank you again they were awesome!!) Got the "UNI sucks" and "FU / Eat sh.." yelled at us by various students walking to the game, but I'm a big boy and can take it. I didn't always do smart things as a student either. Didn't / wouldn't do that, but I get it I guess...they were just drunk and excited. Felt kind of honored that they cared enough about us to yell obscenities.

[panther-state]

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Felt kind of honored that they cared enough about us to yell obscenities.

This. No one hardly heckles MSU football or SIU basketball because hey...it really isn't worth the time. If you aren't getting yelled at they feel bad for you

[BadgerPal]

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Hi Panther fans,

I fully concur with those who are giving the account of the sedated atmosphere of the game on Saturday. I was basically falling asleep in my seat the whole game or else I was quietly palm-planting my forehead as I watched our lead slip away in the second half! Not the greatest of afternoons...

Anyway- hope you weren't totally disappointed by your trip and that you had some fun despite the rather vanilla atmosphere surrounding the match-up. Hopefully some day you can make it back again for when the place lives up to it's reputation! You have a great team and great, loyal fans and I wish you the best of luck in your league's race!

Best,
BadgerPal

[Cat80]

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First off, ISU fans are the worst. No comparison between ISU and Iowa fans.

Madison-where the party is more important than the game. I thought it was a game worthy of stature of the two teams. The MFVC Co-champions and the Big Ten Champions tentatively running through the playbook in the first half and then lighting it up in the 4th quarter. I though the crowd was ready for a wipe out and it never came. Was pretty much ignored all day by Wisconsin fans, received genial high-fives from Panther fans, known and unknown. Stadium Bar was jumping. But Jump Around? Anytime 20,000 people do something in unison, it's fine, but the UNI band does Jump Around. Youngsters need a new schtick. Interlude Dance trumps Jump Around.

['70 Grad]

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We were basically ignored. One young punk was muttering a** h***s when we walked by, but that was about it. Struck up a conversation with some older fans in a beer garden.

After the game, we walked towards the capitol, most everyone was silent. I think if the game was more like 41-10, they would have been saying "good game & good luck", but it was too close. Reminded me of Kinnick two years ago, but then again the party in Madison is more important than the game, as has been stated. Had a couple of beers at an outdoor cafe. Some co-eds walked by and started to give us some grief, but then continued with some nice drunken conversation.

Then we continued walking to my favorite Madison German restaurant, the Essen Haus, to meet my sister-in-law, who had dropped us off in the morning & had made the reservations. They kidded us that they had no seats for purple people. (Had worn purple to the very neat Samba Argentine Grille Friday night, but no comments from the gauchos. All-you-can-eat meat of 8 varieties sliced off of skewers brought to your table. We made pigs of ourselves!)

[unigrl05]

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I had a very good experience before and after the game. We went to BWW before the game and all the managers stopped over to welcome us. On the way to the game we had one kid yell f*** you to us, but I take that as he thought of us as a threat I loved how quiet WI got in the fourth quarter. After the game, we ran into many people saying great game and admitted they were worried we were going to pull off the win! It was a great experience and I'm glad I was able to go.
Pretty sure I'm not going to be as welcomed at Iowa in 2 weeks..

[BigAppleBucky]

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Not loud at all . . .

It can get pretty loud.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-YGg3RQotk

[Khan4Cats]

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Didn't have any problems with the Badgers fans. A couple weak comments prior to the game, but more interest in where we were located, how big we were (# students), general friendly nature. Only one weak comment about how "you suck" and "purple makes me want to puke" as we left, but those were quickly put down by companions that told the commenter off that we almost beat them. Several nice compliments from people as we left.

Funniest incident was the guy who came up to me and asked what bowl game we had played in last year. When I told him we didn't play in bowl games but played in the playoff subdivision and made the playoffs last year he was really confused and again asked what bowl we played in because we were too good to not have played in a bowl. I tried to explain again, but I don't think he was convinced.

[jnutt]

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Wisc fans were fine except for the teenage douchebags in the UNI sections. Had UNI won, it may have been a different story

[clenz]

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Didn't have any problems with the Badgers fans. A couple weak comments prior to the game, but more interest in where we were located, how big we were (# students), general friendly nature. Only one weak comment about how "you suck" and "purple makes me want to puke" as we left, but those were quickly put down by companions that told the commenter off that we almost beat them. Several nice compliments from people as we left.

Funniest incident was the guy who came up to me and asked what bowl game we had played in last year. When I told him we didn't play in bowl games but played in the playoff subdivision and made the playoffs last year he was really confused and again asked what bowl we played in because we were too good to not have played in a bowl. I tried to explain again, but I don't think he was convinced.

Sounds similar to conversations I had at the Louisville game. They found out I was from Iowa, graduated from UNI, etc... Asked why our football team didn't play in a bowl, when I explained it to them (using Western Kentucky as a reference) they understood. Told me to tell our AD to move up because they thought we'd win the MAC.... Pretty cool

[Khan4Cats]

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Sounds similar to conversations I had at the Louisville game. They found out I was from Iowa, graduated from UNI, etc... Asked why our football team didn't play in a bowl, when I explained it to them (using Western Kentucky as a reference) they understood. Told me to tell our AD to move up because they thought we'd win the MAC.... Pretty cool

Were they in on the tweets to Dannen?

[clenz]

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Were they in on the tweets to Dannen?

I'm not sure most of them knew how to use the actual bathrooms - they seem more at home in the port a pots - let alone what Twitter is/was....

[jnutt]

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Sounds similar to conversations I had at the Louisville game. They found out I was from Iowa, graduated from UNI, etc... Asked why our football team didn't play in a bowl, when I explained it to them (using Western Kentucky as a reference) they understood. Told me to tell our AD to move up because they thought we'd win the MAC.... Pretty cool

i had that exact same thought...

[MeOW!]

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Badger fans were great hosts. They were respectful (for the most part) and very complimentirly of UNI. Iowa fans should take some lessons from them.

[Mudrafan]

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The media in this state won't allow the Iowa/ISU fans to treat us w/ respect. That is where it starts.