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GopherHole Staff
10-04-2009, 08:04 PM
Per our bet with Buckyville.com, we have placed a banner on the front page of GopherHole.com which was designed by Buckyville.com. This banner will be there all week and will re-emerge the week leading up to the game in 2010.

The posters at Buckyville.com clearly had fun with it and didn't hold back one bit - we hope fellow GopherHolers will remember this banner and will come up with an even more painful banner next year when we bring the axe back home.

Thanks to the staff and posters at Buckyville for initiating this bet and we look forward to having it year in and year out.

Here are the rules that we agreed to:

http://www.forums.gopherhole.com/boards/showthread.php?t=9023
UptownMaroon&Gold
10-04-2009, 10:38 PM
Wow, I am actually surprised this banner isn't a lot worse...I thought maybe it would be a little more ruthless.
EG#9
10-05-2009, 12:41 AM
A couple thoughts: If the Gophers win, would anyone actually want to talk trash? What can you put on a banner in your first win in 7,8,9 years whenever it does occur?

Congrats to Wisconsin, the last 3 games could have went either way, and they found a way to in all 3, just as the Gophers found a way to lose all 3.

Do the posters on the Badger site actually like that picture of their coach? He looks more than a little awkward (to put it nicely) in that picture.
67frosh
10-05-2009, 04:02 AM
Wisconsin earned the Axe on Saturday - perhaps some day the Gophers will take it back...
diddlypoo
10-05-2009, 07:03 AM
Kudos to gopherhole for following through on the bet. After witnessing numerous online bets ignored over the years, I was expecting that to happen again. I'm quite certain Iowa's site wouldn't have manned up.
Bronko Nagurski Gopher
10-05-2009, 08:23 AM
Kudos to gopherhole for following through on the bet. After witnessing numerous online bets ignored over the years, I was expecting that to happen again. I'm quite certain Iowa's site wouldn't have manned up.

blah, blah, blah. :rolleyes:
NCBadger
10-05-2009, 10:58 AM
Wow, I am actually surprised this banner isn't a lot worse...I thought maybe it would be a little more ruthless.


Buckyville and Badger fans too classy for that. :)
NewBerlinBucky
10-05-2009, 12:47 PM
It's all being done in fun folks.

99% of the fan base from the two schools are normal people, working hard to support their families.... carrying a balanced perspective about the whole thing. I have a daughter that goes to U of M... we're constantly taking jabs at one another when the two schools compete in sports... but... in the end, we're family, and I'm glad she's getting a great education and enjoying her experience.

After that 99%?... you start to deal with the lunatic fringe. We all know who they are from the two boards. We all cringe when they represent our respective universities.
Slim Tubby
10-05-2009, 02:23 PM
Good grief....I don't know if I can handle looking at that guy's ugly face all week without punching my computer monitor... :)
Rotundo
10-05-2009, 02:24 PM
I agree with New Berlin Bucky although I think the % of lunatics especially on these boards might be a little higher. Overall, it is somewhat amazing how wrapped up a person can get in the performance of a football team he doesn't play for, didn't play for, doesn't have a kid playing, doesn't know a single player, etc...

GH should think twice before making any bets while Brewster is our coach. No Iowa banner please.
GortonsFisherman011
10-05-2009, 04:46 PM
Best thing about this is my bookmark links me right past the banner! :clap:
SoMplsHawkI
10-05-2009, 04:51 PM
Kudos to gopherhole for following through on the bet. After witnessing numerous online bets ignored over the years, I was expecting that to happen again. I'm quite certain Iowa's site wouldn't have manned up.

:rolleyes:
NewEngland_Gold
10-05-2009, 06:54 PM
Establishing yet another great "axe" tradition!
Ski U Mah Gopher
10-05-2009, 07:09 PM
Best thing about this is my bookmark links me right past the banner! :clap:

You beat me to the punch

My bookmark goes right to the board.
GoldenGo4Fan
10-05-2009, 07:33 PM
Best thing about this is my bookmark links me right past the banner! :clap:
+1

Haven't seen it yet and don't plan to.
Golden Shower
10-05-2009, 11:21 PM
I wonder if Buckyville will have the same gonads this basketball year and do the same bet for the basketball games between each other this year. I think we need to make that same bet for basketball. Winner of the first game has the other have a banner of selection up on the others the week following each game this year. Same goes for the second game. I think we need to get that out there now and see if they have the balls. I kinda like our chances this year for a sweep! C'mon Gopherhole Administrators, let's get that bet out there.
southfew
10-06-2009, 07:21 AM
There's only one basketball game this year between the Gophers and Badgers (which is obviously not the way it should be), but Buckyville will definitely make the same bet. Winning fans design a banner to go on opposing board for one week after the game, with the banner to be delivered 24 hours after the end of the game.

Thank you for putting up with our design. We muted some of the more inflammatory statements, but, well, we know how you feel about our coach, so I'm sure his picture cancels out some of our efforts to be less obnoxious. Of course, I think he looks like a fine, upstanding man. :)

Good luck against Purdue!

Visit Buckyville! (http://www.buckyville.com)
XMan
10-06-2009, 03:43 PM
I have to admit, after I first saw it, I was wondering what was going on. Pretty funny and a good idea.
Gopher Bandanna Guy
10-06-2009, 08:06 PM
This is good fun, and Buckyville earned it fair and square. I myself lost a bet with a Badger co-worker and so will have to wear a Wisconsin hat and sweatshirt when we go out for a beer next week.

That pic of Bielema is not a positive for Badger Backers though. He looks like the stooge that he is. At least you can't see his Iowa Hawkeye tatoo in it though...
badgergopher
10-06-2009, 10:25 PM
I wouldn't have entered the bet. Recruits come to this site and it is embarassing. I think you should take it down and forget about the bet going forward.
tundra
10-07-2009, 05:20 PM
Best thing about this is my bookmark links me right past the banner! :clap:

cosign.

while i respect the honor, i guess having to look at that crap, including the coach i despise more than any other coach in all of college sports, is enough to take a bit of vacation from the board. Since i refuse to talk to anyone that gives bucky fans a ticket or and will not visit a MN tailgate that invites a bucky to their tailgate while supporting bucky wear, i am not sure where i fall in the whole 99% thing. maybe consistently moronic. such is life.

While i am not really sure about the whole 99% bit, especially if you disregard the casual fan, or the event goer elements out there, i have finally defined my view as follows:

WI: the coaching staff i love to hate,
WI: the football team with the least amount of class (seem to take after their coach - wonder if he learned that while at IA), and
IA: the fan base i love to hate. No matter how bad the bucky fan base can be, they are no where near the fringe from the south.

Admittedly there will always be fringe individuals that defy definition and generalizations.
tundra
10-07-2009, 05:23 PM
I wouldn't have entered the bet. Recruits come to this site and it is embarassing. I think you should take it down and forget about the bet going forward.

Kind of agree on the bet being one that neither site should have entered.

However, a bet made is a bet honored. so, the price of self generated scorn must be paid.
lakesbison
10-08-2009, 09:31 AM
CMON GOPHER NATION!!

AT LEAST "WELCH" ON THE BET! SCREW THE DRUNKEN SCONI"S.

I WOULD"VE BEEN MORE PROUD OF GOPHER NATION IF THEY DIDNT HONOR THE BET.


DID I MENTION I HATE WISCONSIN?
RodentRampage
10-08-2009, 12:05 PM
Imagine that, I don't feel a bit bothered that lakes isn't proud of us.