BadgersBadgersBadgers...

[Archae]

No, no mushroom, but :woohoo:

MADISON (AP) — Wisconsin has had an unprecedented run of postseason success. Now the fourth-ranked Badgers get to play in the Big Ten’s marquee game against undefeated No. 3 TCU in the Rose Bowl.

Wisconsin (11-1) will face the only perfect team that isn’t in the BCS title game and will play in a program-record ninth straight bowl game on Jan. 1.

“That’s so special, there’s not many teams that can say that,” quarterback Scott Tolzien said Sunday night. “You’re always greedy, in that regard, you don’t just want to go to a bowl game, you want to go to a better bowl game. It’s been a nice gradual progression, and hopefully it’s the start of something big for this program.”

http://www.sheboyganpress.com/article/20101206/SHE0101/101205080/Badgers-finally-get-Rose-Bowl-nod

[Redstone]

1. My friend Wetzelbill has a brother who once fistfought a badger.

But said brother was pretty drunk at the time. And I never found out who won the fistfight.

Redstone

[Capn Sunshine]

2. ? I thought the Rose Bowl had to have a Pac 10 team in it?

Stanford or Cal leap to mind

[KamaAina]

3. They had to take a non-automatic qualifier that didn't get into the title game

hence, No. 4 Stanford was sent packing to the Orange Bowl. And they're not known for traveling particularly well.

Cal? :rofl: Not even bowl-eligible after choking to U-Dub. :eyes:

edit: Which bowl gets potentially hosed by this scenario rotates from year to year. Just our Luck :P this'd be the Rose's year.

[pinboy3niner]

4. Badgers? We don't need no stinkin' badgers!

:evilgrin:

[jobycom]

5. Holy Smoke! TCU's in the Rose Bowl? Great googly moogly!

The Horned Frogs against the Badgers. That's too cool! I kind of wanted to see Stanford play Wisconsin, but at least this way I'll care about the game. :) Not that I don't care about Wisconsin or Stanford, I just don't really care about Wisconsin or Stanford.

[gratuitous]

6. Badgers my ass, it's probably Milhous

D'oh!

[madrchsod]

7. made my football season so far! should be a good game...but-

the showdown will be in greenbay...bears-packers for the northern division.

[Archae]

8. Oh yeah.

That one is going to be a blowout!

[ChoralScholar]

9. Congrats to Wisconsin....

I would have rather played the Badgers in the Sugar Bowl than Ohio State.

[realisticphish]

10. Oh!

It's a snake!

[realisticphish]

11. Also, go Badgers

come bowl season, I no longer hate you :)

[book lady]

12. We lived in England for two years and were flying back to Manchester on Jan.1 1999

and I asked the flight attendant if she knew who won the Rose Bowl. She said she would ask the pilot. I told her it wasn't that important to disturb the pilot, but she went off anyway. She came back with two little bottles of Baileys Irish Cream and said Wisconsin won. :)

[Gold Metal Flake]

13. Badger