ESPN Page 2 Article

[BallHawk]

All my parents say is, the only thing between us moving back to Wisconsin is the winter. If it wasn't for that, I'd be sitting in the backyard at about noon today, sipping a Mountain Dew and chewing into a brat.

FUCK! I'm home sick, now.

[chewy-bacca]

I was just gonna post this....AWESOME ARTICLE!!!

Makes me want to go again. He is a really good story teller, and sounds like a lot of fun. Makes me feel good when "outsiders" admire and enjoy what we have.

[ND72]

great article...read it all...laughed a lot...lots of good stuff in there.

[VegasPackFan]

Great Article!

Actually made me a little homesick, and I haven't felt that in a long time.

Life is so much different in WI vs out here in the west.

[swede]

I thought someone in here might be offended or take umbrage at the article. Apparently no. I guess we Wisconsinites can take a joke as long as it's a good one. Also, it says something about an author's skill and general sense of good will when he can rip us that hard and make us love it.
I was at that Brewer game and cheering like a numbskull.

[mraynrand]

"Did you know that the baseball glove on the old Brewers hat was really an "m" resting on top of a lower-case "b"? Everyone's incredulous that I didn't know that. Come on, I'm the same person who was shocked when George Michael came out. "

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What did George Michael come out of? - I must have missed it.

[mraynrand]

"Milwaukee's Billy Hall ties the game with a homer, followed by Bernie Brewer sliding down his slide in right field and landing, feet first, on a catwalk. Wait, why didn't he land in the mug of beer? Chip informs us that they jettisoned the mug a few years ago for PC reasons. You know, because Bernie Brewer landing in a mug of beer was causing the teen drinking rate in Wisconsin to skyrocket. I'm beginning to hate living in this country. "

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this is a tragedy. Swear to god, last time I was there, it was the mug 'o beer. I would have thought they'd go the other way and have him slide into an actual giant mug filled with real beer.

[FavreChild]

Personally, I thought it was fantastically unoriginal humor, but that is more and more typical of Bill Simmons these days. His act has worn a bit thin, in my opinion. Not very creative to simply exploit worn-out stereotypes (for instance, Wisconsin isn't even in the top 10 fattest states).

But it's not offensive - hell, we love our state, and so does everyone else. Otherwise all those FIBs and Bill Simmons types wouldn't be so jealous and want to visit us all the time!

Ah....Wisconsin!!

[Guiness]

Actually, I thought the stereotypes were pretty bad, etc, but something else stood out to me...

He goes on and on about how he couldn't wait to get to Lambeau, they give him a damn field pass, but he leaves after the 3rd quarter to go back to Milwakee and get drunk????

He lost me with that one.

[chewy-bacca]

^ the cuting out before it was over was in poor taste to me too. Heck they stayed till the end of the baseball game.
Pretty much everything other than that made me home sick.

[BallHawk]

MMMMMMMMMMMMM...Cheese Curds

[the_idle_threat]

I found his east coast superiority a bit grating at times ... but I have to admit it was a fun article overall. Makes me appreciate that I live here in MKE.

[VegasPackFan]

The removal of the beer mug was very disturbing to me.

Was there really a big uproar over this?

WHy was that removed?

Some of my earliest memories of sports was at County Stadium wathching that dude slide down into the beer mug. To remove it is a national tragedy.