Brainstorming: Things I love in Wisconsin sports

Published Feb. 15, 2010 at 2:06 p.m.
By Bob Brainerd

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Published Feb. 15, 2010 at 9:06 a.m.

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



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