Yeah, I have season tickets. MSP is still more fun.
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I hadn’t thought of this before, but it’s an intriguing take. Part of it has to be the literally generational heartbreak as well, you can’t love a team fully knowing they’re going to hurt you again, so you force yourself to care less.
I always try to be optimistic/find the positives but living in MN and having been to GB…you aren’t wrong
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True to size as far as I can tell.
My unasked for sock preferences, since we are already off the rails here:
-short/golf socks: FootJoy Pro Dry
-Mid calf casual/everyday socks: Stance
-Hiking/hunting/November football game/absolutely need to be f’n warm socks: Smartwool
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That’s not true, we hate Texas with a burning passion, and more of a smoldering hate for Iowa
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In terms of 2022 dates, let me get through a couple things at work and I will see what I can accomplish. This all assuming @BaxterMSP is okay with handing over things to my dumbass.
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Along those lines, I think having every professional sport along with D1 college teams tends to thin the herd of diehards for each individual team a bit. There are certainly diehards around for each of the teams, but it takes a lot of time and energy to commit to following all of them closely, especially considering the vast amount of other non-sports things to do, as mentioned.
In Wisconsin the Packers and Badgers get by far the most attention, and while the Brewers and, even less so, Bucks have diehard fans, I’d argue they tend to get the same “fair weather” treatment described above.
This is all entirely anecdotal as well, based on growing up in Wisconsin and living in the Cities for 18 years now.
All yours man.
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Camp Randall is great. The atmosphere, Madison, etc overcome the amenities and production that other places do better.
I found the Horseshoe a bit hollow. The field is to far away from the stands. Columbus is too big for the real college town feel.
Big house is a big house. The symmetry is cool but the bowl is just too expansive.
Nebraska (Homer) is as good or better than any when the team isnt terrible. Stadium downtown is fun.
Ryan Field - Cool high school stadium that we all pillage once every 2 years.
Purdue - Oh there was a game today? Can someone drag a porta john into the endzone and someone go buy a pack of hot dogs to serve?
Illinois - Classy stadium. Good tailgaiting setup. Bert.
Rutgers - Kinda cool for a new stadium for a non-football school.
Really want to go to PSU and Iowa.
Non Big Ten!
CU Boulder - Excellent
Oregon - Excellent
Coliseum in LA - Dog shit
Oklahoma - Meh
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Here I am having a decent Monday, wonder in this thread and catch an absolute stray. I was there too and did not think it ruled.
Luckily I was also at this game my freshman year at the U:
That was my first experience on this side of the rivalry and it’s pretty much all been downhill ever since.
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Bombas suck and all fanbases can agree on that.
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You sure didn’t miss much after that year.
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New to this thread - Chicago Nestian/Roost captain applicant. Should the 2022 Ope-In be the qualifier for which Roost from the Great Lakes goes to the NLU club championship tourney?
Illinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, etc etc all play a match play tournament and team with the most points (or whatever) earns a spot in the championship?
Working through details on dates with Lawsonia now. Once I have that, let’s connect on the final details. Wisconsin may not have enough interested nest members for the Roost, but we are working through that and there WILL be a matchplay for the state no matter what
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Sounds great! Best of luck with all the planning.
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Once I have dates; it should be pretty simple for a while. It’s when we get to needing to actually have commits that things get interesting.
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Yeah it seemed like getting people to actually commit was hard but hundreds signed up quickly. In my experience planning these things it makes sense to get ~15% fewer spots than you have people who express interest. Less headaches when you have a deep waitlist of seriously interested folks instead of scrambling to find subs.