This Weekend, MN vs WI

So this weekend is the king of all sporting events if you live in Wisconsin or Minnesota. First on Saturday is the battle for Paul Bunyan's Axe, the Badgers vs the Gophers. A sense of pride comes over me thinking about this precious trophy as Wisconsin has won it 13 of the past 15 years. So only twice since I have really started watching college football have I had to watch the stupid ground squirrels walk away with this trophy (FWI, a pretty kick ass idea to have a huge axe be the trophy for a college football rivalry game, the Iowa-Minnesota game is a fricken steel pig, WTF) . Lets face it Minnesota, when it comes to college football, Wisconsin is better than you in every way, shape or form the last two decades. Lets analyze for second on the 2 points of determining a good college football program.

1) Winning Tradition - Wisconsin 3 rose bowl victories, a 12 win season, a heisman trophy winner, ranked in the top 25 pretty consistently, three top 10 teams. Minnesota, I think they won the GMAC Chevy Truck uniroyal tire bowl one time and have shown they can blow games at any moment (see Wisconsin-Minnesota 2005)

2) Atmosphere - While Minnesota at least took a step forward in this department with TCF stadium instead of playing in the shit dome, nothing beats Madison on game day. The partying outside, the 5th quarter, the sea of red walking around. ESPN is there usually once a year to do gameday, when was the last time they were in Minnesota? Wisconsin has jump around at the end of the 3rd quarter, Minnesota spells out their state name?




Now the other game is where it gets interesting, the Packers vs Vikings (Brett Favre showdown) at recently renamed Mall of America Field (hahahahahahahaha). I will be the first to admit that I am a bitter Packer fan, not because I think Brett Favre is still really good an am jealous, but because I think this transition has shown that there is truly no loyalty left in sports. No players want to stay with one organization anymore and no organization will do anything to keep their legacy players on their team. It is neither sides fault completely (I blame Favre more, but that is just me) and it is a sad situation.

But on to the game, everyone thinks the Vikings are the greatest and have no weaknesses, Favre has made them complete, blah blah blah. Nice of the Vikings fans to fully hop on the bandwagon while the getting is good. What they arent thinking about is how the Vikings have not played a good team yet (spare me the San Fran talk, good D, very one dimensional O and they went 0 for 11 on 3rd down). They have beaten bad teams essentially with Adrian Peterson, checkdown throws and one decent Favre pass.

The Packers are not a good team yet, but are far more complete than any team the Vikings have faced. One thing the Viking fans also dont know about Brett Favre, he tends to get pretty hyper for big games and usually throws some early picks because of it. He also has karma working against him for making an awful lot of packer fans upset. I will take the Packers in a 27-17 victory in the dome (fyi Mike McCarthy while looking like a fat drunk college dropout, is 5-1 against the Vikings and would have been 6-0 if not for Mason Crosby's FG miss in the dome last year).

We will be seeing plenty of this....
HERE IS TO A WISCONSIN SWEEP!!!!