# Badgers rule and Gophers suck - Here it is, Sledman **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 5, 2000, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badgers-rule-and-gophers-suck-here-it-is-sledman/39759 "2000-11-05T01:19:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2000, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badgers-rule-and-gophers-suck-here-it-is-sledman/39759/1 "2000-11-05T01:19:19Z")
Day 1 of contrition thread: The Axe stays in the Dairy State Because the Badgers are so great. The Badgers never had a doubt, And won the contest in a rout. Three quarters and the game was tied, But in the 4th the Gophers died. So Sledman dude, this is your song: You were so right; I was so wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2000, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badgers-rule-and-gophers-suck-here-it-is-sledman/39759/2 "2000-11-05T14:32:16Z")
Day 2: Roses are red. Badgers are too. Maroon and Gold Has turned to Blue. ---
**Author:** ![chique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2000, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badgers-rule-and-gophers-suck-here-it-is-sledman/39759/3 "2000-11-05T21:32:37Z")
Ouch - This is painful ☹ In more ways than one!! ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2000, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badgers-rule-and-gophers-suck-here-it-is-sledman/39759/4 "2000-11-05T21:35:26Z")
How many days is this going to go on? Poor Rysdad… ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2000, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badgers-rule-and-gophers-suck-here-it-is-sledman/39759/5 "2000-11-06T02:07:45Z")
I promised to do it for a week, but unless Sledman gets in here and acknowledges my pitiful poetry efforts pretty soon, I’m gonna consider his gloating rights forfeited. I mean, there’s no reason to subject the rest of you to my fractured rhymes. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2000, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badgers-rule-and-gophers-suck-here-it-is-sledman/39759/6 "2000-11-06T06:08:35Z")
dasa poor baby. awwwwww did the mean ol Badgers tromp down on your pathetic little gophers? That’s why they’re called go fers. Badgers are mean and vicious. Just check out the Simpsons tonight. Even without the Great Dayne, they can still let the dogs out. \*oh my god, I did NOT just use that phrase. Someone please kill me now. Better yet, Rysdad, recite some more poetry. It’ll do the job. \* ---
**Author:** ![Sledman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@Sledman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sledman)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2000, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badgers-rule-and-gophers-suck-here-it-is-sledman/39759/7 "2000-11-06T14:43:57Z")
I hereby acknowledge the spoils of battle! I think we may need a replica Axe for the future of this rivalry! Ahh, the sweet taste fo success. No Roses but a nice Axe and the soothing poetry of Rysdad. Anyone need a beer while we sit back and listen. Come on Rysdad, you too. We need to drown the sorrows of a season that wasn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Gazoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ce73a5/32.png) [@Gazoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazoo)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2000, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badgers-rule-and-gophers-suck-here-it-is-sledman/39759/8 "2000-11-06T14:49:24Z")
::Awaiting today’s verse:: ---
**Author:** ![Sledman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@Sledman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sledman)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2000, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badgers-rule-and-gophers-suck-here-it-is-sledman/39759/9 "2000-11-06T17:53:18Z")
If you could put a little more love for Wisconsin in the next one. You know…better tailgating, beer, cheese, cheeseheads… all that good stuff… **Rysdad: Poet Laureate of the Battle for the Axe** Ahhh, I can see your legend growing to some day rival that of Leaping Lanny Poffo. ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2000, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badgers-rule-and-gophers-suck-here-it-is-sledman/39759/10 "2000-11-07T01:35:11Z")
Day 3: (I was hoping you’d say “Uncle!” but if I must, I must.) Fair Wisconsin, Cheddarland, Oh, cows and maidens fair! Suds that flow and never stop, And Cheeseheads everywhere. Tailgate gigs at Lambeau Field, Beer bellies on display, By kickoff time the crowd is drunk, On days the Packers play. ---
**Author:** ![Sledman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@Sledman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sledman)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2000, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badgers-rule-and-gophers-suck-here-it-is-sledman/39759/11 "2000-11-07T05:56:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rysdad \* > \*\* > Fair Wisconsin, Cheddarland, > Oh, cows and maidens fair! > Suds that flow and never stop, > And Cheeseheads everywhere. > Tailgate gigs at Lambeau Field, > Beer bellies on display, > By kickoff time the crowd is drunk, > On days the Packers play. > > \*\* I like that one… 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2000, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badgers-rule-and-gophers-suck-here-it-is-sledman/39759/12 "2000-11-07T06:16:08Z")
I ain’t never seen no cheeseheads at UW football games. Wait…one plus one plus one…ok, three negatives, it works. Rysdad, if you could put something in about “Eat Shit” “Fuck you” into your next sonnet that would be kinda cool. Ah, memories… ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2000, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badgers-rule-and-gophers-suck-here-it-is-sledman/39759/13 "2000-11-07T11:38:15Z")
Day 4: Deepest gloom ‘Twas late and wet and **Farv** did throw, And somehow ol’ Antonio Did catch it. How I do not know. The Vikes have lost two in a row. ---
**Author:** ![Gazoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ce73a5/32.png) [@Gazoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazoo)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2000, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badgers-rule-and-gophers-suck-here-it-is-sledman/39759/14 "2000-11-07T14:06:33Z")
Damn, **Rysdad** , these actually aren’t all that bad! More, more! ---
**Author:** ![Sledman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@Sledman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sledman)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2000, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badgers-rule-and-gophers-suck-here-it-is-sledman/39759/15 "2000-11-07T16:23:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Enderw23 \* > \*\*I ain’t never seen no cheeseheads at UW football games. > > Wait…one plus one plus one…ok, three negatives, it works. > > Rysdad, if you could put something in about “Eat Shit” “Fuck you” into your next sonnet that would be kinda cool. Ah, memories… \*\* Then you haven’t watched many Badger games. Rysdad is performing his obligation admirably and as Gazoo said he is getting quite good at it! As a matter of fact he is doing so good I shall refrain from any blatant taunting as a result of last night’s game. ---
**Author:** ![Sledman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@Sledman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sledman)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2000, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badgers-rule-and-gophers-suck-here-it-is-sledman/39759/16 "2000-11-07T17:07:15Z")
Oh yeah and seriously…have a beer Rysdad… I know this must be leaving a terrible taste in your mouth. ---
**Author:** ![oldscratch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ed655f/32.png) [@oldscratch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oldscratch)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2000, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badgers-rule-and-gophers-suck-here-it-is-sledman/39759/17 "2000-11-07T22:24:42Z")
Sledman, you rock. {fondly remembers doing the chicken dance in the fifth quarter after downing a 12 pack of Sprecher} ---
**Author:** ![Bottle\_of\_Smoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Bottle\_of\_Smoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bottle_of_Smoke)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2000, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badgers-rule-and-gophers-suck-here-it-is-sledman/39759/18 "2000-11-07T22:34:38Z")
[Homer Simpson] Mmmmm…Sprecher. [/Homer Simpson] ---
**Author:** ![imthjckaz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/imthjckaz/32/3223_2.png) [@imthjckaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/imthjckaz)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2000, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badgers-rule-and-gophers-suck-here-it-is-sledman/39759/19 "2000-11-07T22:43:22Z")
I feel your pain Rysdad. ☹ ☹ I don’t know how much more I can watch. P.S. Sledman, That was a fucking lucky catch. ---
**Author:** ![Bottle\_of\_Smoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Bottle\_of\_Smoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bottle_of_Smoke)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2000, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badgers-rule-and-gophers-suck-here-it-is-sledman/39759/20 "2000-11-07T22:54:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by imthjckaz \* > \*\*That was a fucking lucky catch. \*\* Nah. It was a fucking lucky _bounce_. It was a fucking GREAT catch. Besides, it’s about time we had the ball bounce our way this year. The Pack hasn’t exactly been swimming in great plays this season. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badgers-rule-and-gophers-suck-here-it-is-sledman/39759.md?page=2)