Tell us, please, exactly how you come to "know" this, particularly given that you are stating as fact something that has not been established.
Your last two sentences are hyperbolic, right? Please tell us you are just riffing the time away.
It's called cheese.
There isn't much else to get worked up over. Bucky the Badger lets them down every year so the Pack is it.
I read a great anecdotal story about an Ohio sports editor who went to Madison, Wisc. In the first week of football season he wrote a column blistering the mascot "Badgers". Asked when was the last time anybody saw a badger. Said they should be called the Wisconsin Holsteins. A lot of people did not see the humor in it.
You realize they, we I've lived here for 32 years since I was 5, are called badgers because around Madison in Mid 19th century there was a lot of mining and the people who did it would dig holes in the ground and put cloth over the top as a temporary home which looked like a badger hole. It's actually a really cool back story that ties to the community in which the University sprang from. Instead of just a random animal or insect that somebody thought sounded cool. It was founded the same year Wisconsin became a state, 1848, because Wisconsin is a land grant state. I'll pip down now.
It was a bit random, but I appreciated the history lesson.
Hey, find that former sports editor, Ed Somebody, I forget, and tell him the history. Frankly I have never figured out how any nickname is arrived at. At the risk of opening another can of worms, it includes Yellow Jackets. Growing up in south Georgia I found it to be just a pesky insect of great bother but little threat. I mean, think about it. "Crimson Tide": comes in once or twice a day, depending, is very predictable - to the minute -- and is all wet. Gators provide belts and shoes, Hurricanes are unwelcome storms, Bulldogs are ugly creatures of no value except as an image for England in bad times, and nobody ever saw a Tiger in Clemson, either. Nicknames really ought to be school related: Engineers, Teachers, Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and the like. Maybe dress one up, like Classroom Instructors.
Actually, I enjoyed it too. Always assumed it had to do with the Badger's reputation for blood lust. Or something.
IIRC, Ed Thilenius announced the Ugag games on WSB for years before Munson. Ed Danforth was the sports editor for the AJC and wore his "coat of many colors" (on b&w TV, lol) on the Bobby Dodd show when Tech won an important game.
I saw what you were doing there, and actually kind of appreciate the effort.
No, I remember Danforth's name. I am going to have to do what I don't like now, research. See what you did?