Wisconsin
I found this shirt in Madison in anticipation of this week's game against Nebraska, and I have to say, it's sort of awesome. That it's in Nebraska's colors (only because Wisconsin shares them), that there's something so linguistically strange about its chosen insult--its concern with ranking and history and that it attacks the state as a whole and not the football team or the university--well, I sort of want it. I wish it had a question mark at the end as if it, like, meant to start a conversation about Nebraska's place in the country or maybe took more seriously its use of "ever" which confuses everything, but still, it's a really idiosyncratic shirt which could only have sprung from a rivalry which is not and never will be real.
I love it.
I want Nebraska to answer with their own strange insults when these two teams meet again in the Big 10 Championship game:
9.27.2011
Exhibit 1.4.6
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The 'Jeffersonian/Lewis 'n Clarkian' shape of Nebraska is how I want my states shaped.
Wisconsin is far too 'we took all the rivers and natural defining features into cosideration'-ey.
Excellent comment. I concur.
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