Look at the kind of activity we have at football games. Look what it promotes.
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As frustrated as you may be with the Badger Football team, I know you still love the UW Varsity Band. Now you can come see them at Delavan Darien High School on Sunday January 27 at 2:00. Tickets are only $10! Tickets can be purchased at Delavan Darien High School as well as area businesses! Go Bucky!

You already took first prize:
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Sigma... "...we continue to have issues and they keep getting worse..."

gazettefan - Thank you for finally realizing this. Please select your prize from the top shelf. :)

I thought they played real good. I was predicting a total Stanford blowout. Stanford still covered the Vegas betting line (which ended at -4) so it was still a profitable venture to back the superior team, but WI still should be given credit for putting up a formidable fight (and having real winning chances) to a vastly superior team.

The truth is the 8-5 unranked Badgers didn't belong on the same field as #6 Stanford. Barry was a good coach in his day, but everyone seemed to think the Badgers would win this game just because BA was on the sideline. He's not magic people.

Sig...., you are doing what the electronic media do. You are over-focusing on what goes wrong to such a degree that you're distorting reality in its entirety.

Problems are solved or prevented much more than things go wrong. You are over-looking how much order there is. You are generalizing what goes wrong onto everything.

If you look at society as a whole you can see a lot more holes. If you look at one area, say gun control or domestic violence, you'll never see problems we have. If no one ever sees the orgin of the problem, no one can ever fix them. When a tragic even happens we take random shots in the dark at attempts to "fix" the issue which we thought created he problem. ..Which isnt even the problem. Everything is relative and all these articles I can see that. We get upset over nothing, we try to fix nothing, we continue to have issues and they keep getting worse. I dont have anything against sports, I absolutely hate the behaviors they create in people....which sure alone isnt a problem. Compound that with another and everyone knows what happens when multiple problems pile up on people. 1. They handle it well. 2. They snap.

Sigma was a victim of bullying in High School, leave him alone !

Some reader comments are so frustrating. I don't know I can control this anger.

Sig....., somewhere in your last two posts you seem to acknowledge that precipitating incidents are not really the cause for a violent rave-out. But at the same time you don't seem to understand that you're generalizing normal things onto pathology.

dnd - Frustration is the inability to rationalize and accept the outcome of something. While it is common... so is domestic violence. One who has no expectations of others can only be appreciative and never allow themself to get frustrated. If the outcome of a game is not to your liking, why not be appreciative of the team and congradulate them on the effort they put fourth??? Why be negative? Perhaps if it was a friend or family member playing a disapointment could be felt. But these are games played on TV and im guessing you dont personally know the players. So to let these games/players affect you emotionally to the point of altering your mood... That game is either really powerful or you are really weak. The only power the TV game has on you is what you give it. One shouldnt let the TV influence them.... in any way. This is how it affect our society... not just ball games but ball games are a part of it. The title to this blog demonstrates that.

I didnt say that he will go on a shooting spree. I just said this is one part of our behavioral problem... one that could be a warning sign of future problems. And yes.. all this talk about the tragic events that have been happening... what is a warning sign? Anger is a huge weakness, if you get angry instead of accepting something or seeing what you can do to better a situation... you got issues. Quite a few people that have "snapped" were good people prior. Someone that gets angry over a ball game is much more likely to be the fighting type after a few drinks in a bar and someone looked at their girlfriend funny. But this is normal today... tomorrow when some wacko flys off the handle and kills his wife for not having dinner ready... we can blame Betty Crocker.

Thursday morning quarterback.

Sigma, you are delusional. Nothing about GP's blog suggests he is going to start shooting up the neighborhood or commiting domestic violence. He was merely frustrated. Frustration is a simple emotion and doesn't necessarily elicit uncontrolled anger.

Sig....., the crazy killings stem largely from paranoia. Paranoia about how everything is so overwhelming that the cause of crazy thoughts is attributed to everything, or almost everything -non threatening things included.

Consider the possibility that as crazy as sportsdom seems, it is only a relatively positive outlet for slightly tribal impulses, and it therefor dissipates and does not substantially aggravate the potential for real craziness. And that crazy killings stem from, at least in part, the inability or unwillingness to make distinctions between what is a threat and what is not a threat.

I just think its funny....you people write blogs on here about "what can we do" and what not... about domestic violence, kids on shooting sprees... then you write a blog demonstrating the very behavior that leads people to this behavior. If you cant contain your anger over a ball game...I think you are a potential threat to society. You cant say this doesnt make sense....like most problems we have we choose to ignore them because they are not what we want to hear.

Well, the Bears DO suck.

DwightKSchrute - Do they have a domestic violence and shooting spree epidemic though? Currently our youth is trained like this:
If something doesnt go your way flip out, scream, have a spaz attack. And also if anyone opposes your beliefs (team) they are lesser of a person than you and its ok to talk smack about them. Its pathetic that we let behavior like this continue, there are even songs saying certain football teams still suck. And we wonder why we have it like we do?? Really?

That's right "gazettefan", I am. God first, the Badgers second....

Sigma has apparently never been to a soccer game in England or anywhere in Africa. If you want to see crazy fans, go there.

frank: good guess

Im just saying adults set examples of how to act and I see it a lot, adults freaking out and coming unglued and judging others by the outcome of a game or the team they like. Since a large population is involved in this... its just another piece of the broken puzzle that keeps America the crime capital of the world.

Yeah, the both of you are really above it all.

Sigma40, I agree. What if people were as passionate about things in life that truly matter???

Not sure why they deleted it? We wonder why we have so many angry people in this society and we have a blog acting like its cool to be frustrated with something as simple as a ball game. People that get mad over this....what do they do when they encounter a real problem? Just asking thats all.... nothing offensive.

No i had mentioned the expression of anger towards a ball game could be an early sign that the person is losing it and should not be around guns.

The part that FRUSTRATES me most... is the whole: $118,000 that that slug gets to pocket. Are you kidding me! How much coaching did he do in those 2-3 short weeks? His assistants stuck around and Barry got to waddle around like an arrogant a$$. I hope that money gets donated to a children's hospital or to some foundation. I honestly think, we would have been better without him. Just a little too much for me Mr. Alvarez.

I wondered if Stave really was 100%. That might explain the reluctance to play him as much.

ICF: Thanks. I suggested removal of my own post, but that hasn't happened, so I am glad you pointed it out. It appears the guy is on a short leash nowadays in the Gazette blogosphere.

dnd: Your comment doesn`t make sense to most since they deleted Sigma`s comment. Bummer. I read his so yours makes sense to me. That guy is something else. One out of 100 comments he makes I agree with. The other 99 are just way out there.

The Badgers did well this year considering that they didn`t have a QB, or at least not one like Russell Wilson.

I would start by banning golf. That sport probably causes a lot of road rage. Golfing and driving just aren't a good mix. Ask Tiger Woods. And then curling should be banned because I don't understand it. Are we banning all sports? Because we are going to have to keep at least one sport so we have something to gamble on.

If he wasn't making any decisions then why was he there? To collect a check? Head coach still has final authority to allow or veto any decision (play) made by an assistant coach. Barry was in the best situation possible. If they would have won people would be saying "look what Barry did, Bielema couldn't do that", or since they lost now "it's not his fault". My point is that at the end of the day Stanford was the better team. I just would have liked to see Bielema on the sideline. I think with Bielema the Badgers would have had a better chance to win.

Alvarez wasn't calling the plays, and what makes you think he was making personnel decisions?

---"When you fall behind 14-0, I thought it was a microcosm of their whole season,” the athletic director turned one-game coach said.

I thought MonTEE (not MonTAY, that was last year. Even years TEE, odd years TAY. Herbie and Musberger didn't get that memo. Wait..it is an odd year again, maybe it is MonTAY again) Ball getting whooped by a couple drunken sorority girls was the microcosm of the season.

Alvarez showed me that the game as passed him bye. He was a great coach and is a good AD. James White running the wildcat on 4th and 1 proved to me that he isn't the same coach he once was. He has the all time leading touchdown producer in college history and he's not on the field for that play! Then by not putting Stave in once again proved that he truly didn't understand what he had for a team. All in all it was a good game, but I feel as the Badgers gave it away by playing to Stanfords strengths instead of trying to expose a weakness.

Ditto