Brainstorming: Things I love in Wisconsin sports

Moved by the spirit of Valentine's Day, here are some Wisconsin sports things that I love, in no particular order:

• Steve Stricker coming back from the dead to become one of the best golfers in the world
• The Packers Hall of Fame
• Wisconsin Timber Rattlers mascot Fang and his Bratzooka
• Racine St. Catherine's gymnasium
• Bo Ryan's sneer
• Buzz Williams' tireless effort and sweat
• Rob Jeter's sportcoats
• Milwaukee Admirals human hockey puck bowling
• The Wisconsin Badgers marching band
• When they called it the Greater Milwaukee Open (GMO)
• Lambeau Field's halftime chili in the press box
• Mike Kelley college basketball color analysis
• The Marquette basketball history montage on the scoreboard before introductions.
• Jump Around!
• Powder blue Milwaukee Brewers throwback road jerseys
• Robin Yount
• The Admirals logo
• Milwaukee Panthers big man James Eayrs three point shot
• Al McGuire
• Matt Lepay's radio call "TOUCHDOWN, WISCONSIN!"
• The new UW-Green Bay Phoenix logo
• The first legit warm temperature tee time in the spring
• The throwback Packers logo...the one with the player running, arm extended, over a crest of a football and the state of Wisconsin
• The WIAA State Summer Baseball Tournament in Stevens Point
• The view from the UW-La Crosse football press box
• Sieve! Sieve! Sieve!
• Dick Basham winning the WIAA State Football Championship, retiring, finishing on top.
• The Sausage Race
• Bart Starr
• Timber Rattlers Thirsty Thursday's
• The smell in pit row at the Milwaukee Mile
• Marquette's bumble bee uniforms
• Cactus League nachos at Miller Park
• The Brewers barrel man logo
• Saturday night Bucks games
• Bernie Brewer's old slide and beer mug at County Stadium
• The old Arena Football League's purple and teal uniforms of the Milwaukee Mustangs
• Grills fired up in the Miller Park tailgating lot
• Eddie Doucette clips
• Friday night prep football... anywhere!
• The slow-motion shot of Cecil Cooper in the 1982 ALCS
• The drive to a UW-Platteville sporting event
• High school nicknames like Flying Dutchmen, Crickets, Mounders, Popes, Castle Guards and Oredockers
• Jon McGlocklin
• Earl Gillespie doing sports on WITI-TV 6 with a Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer logo mounted to the desk
• The Bucks old warm-up music "Green and Growing"
• Moonlight bowling