Dude, are you like four years old? If you are so insecure that what little self-esteem you may have is going to take such a massive beating by them being here on 11/27, stay home and don't watch on TV. Maybe listen on the radio??
?? While I admit the history of national championships rebuttal does get old when it's been SO long and they (WI and IA) have had recent success, it certainly is something to be proud about. Especially when the talking/bragging/berating points they have are these:
- You're team is so terrible, and has been for sooooo long, why do you even follow them or support them?
- Your fan base is so pathetic that they can't even come out and support their team, even when bad or having a down year.
Here are my beefs:
The simultaneously berate us for supporting a loser and even showing up to watch us in futility and then in the same breath make fun of us for not having a strong, rabid following and that any good fans would - 2 contradictory statements.
Throw in the fact that both IA and WI fans have a history of losing support of teams (the turnout at Iowa's basketball arena and WI in the mid-late 80s football are proof), making their people no different than ours. It just proves that fans have a relatively short memory on success, and can't look inward before pointing and laughing at others for the exact same crimes of a fanbase.
I'm here, at the game, supporting a 1-XX team. Instead of being a *&^!#*&^!#*&^!#*&^!#*&^!#*&^!#, why not be cool and have a beer with me. Or talk about how you remember when your team was in the $hitter.
At the end of the day, even though I wasn't alive for any of them, I am proud that the University of Minnesota has a Heisman winner, 6 National Championships, 18 Big Ten Championships. I am proud that we still have an all-time winning record against our 2 biggest rivals (which says something about how good we were for long periods of our history). Other schools like Notre Dame Oklahoma, etc that lost their way for a while didn't/don't shy away from that history. Why? Because tradition and history are the things that make college football college football (aside from bands, cheerleaders, etc etc). So if my only rebuttal for now is that we have 6, they have 0, so be it. they've already shown themselves to be an outward dbag, so I might as well remind them their place in college football - flavor of the week for national attention. They have a down year and no one will care. At all.
