shame they don’t serve booze inside the stadium

Don’t worry yourself about going to Madison. There’s something in the ether that makes lightweights drinkers and drinkers heavyweights.

Besides, even on the chance that you double over and vomit on the way to the stadium, well, it’s nothing everybody there hasn’t seen a hundred times before.

Yeah – but it’s Miller Light and MGD.
I’m sure I could black out and piss myself if I drank enough Fresca – but I wouldn’t want to try.

Classy. Wisconsin doesn’t get enough press for their unbelieveably shitty fans.

Austin, TX was listed as the top drinking city in the country according to Forbes. Milwaukee was second. Too many evangelicals in Texas to put our state as a whole over the top. Maybe we’ll beat Wisconsin out next year.

http://www.forbes.com/2008/08/07/alcohol-drinking-cities-forbeslife-drink08-cx_de_avb_0807hard.html

#3… Um, the greater Madison area is home to two of the best microbreweries in the nation… if you can’t find a non-swill beer to drink there, you aren’t looking.

My lone football roadtrip to Madison was one that involved my team getting beat by the Badgers 51-10. And the weekend still completely rocked. That place is a blast. You must go, Orson. You simply must.

I don’t trust that data.

Utah is second to last for Binge Drinkers. Last place is Tennessee.

That either means that the Volunteer state doesn’t volunteer it’s binge drinking habits, or they’re in a constant drunk.

A trip to Madison is something everyone should experience at least once before their transplant.

I’m thinking about going in November again, but I don’t know if I’ve fully recovered from the trip 2 years ago.

Some history: Back when the “Tastes Great, Less Filling” commercials were in vogue, UW football was at its nadir. Until this coming year, the upperclassmen were seated in Section P (the near section in this vid) and the underclassmen were seated in Section O (far). O sucks, always has, always will. There has thus been much taunting of O by P, and in games where a Wisconsin loss and the fans’ insobriety were never in doubt, you get this. The chant used to be kicked off by the band’s playing of the intro to Steve Miller’s “Swingtown” (which the muckety mucks in the administration have lately discouraged), leading to a vigorous “O sucks!” and then to the video above.

Boorish? Sure, but not classless. This is pretty harmless (Jeff). Unless you’re a retarded parent and you think your 12-year-old has never heard “fuck” or “shit.”

Stay classy, Madison.

You think people are drinky in Madison and Milwaukee? Head north – the cities have nothing on Up North.

1. I think the data is skewed due to an inconsistent definition of “binge drinking”. Knocking out a case of beer, while certainly binge-y in most parts of the country, is par for the course in Tennessee.

In fact I think it may be part of the voter registration process.

Agree with #6.

I vacationed in Madison over the 4th of July weekend this year and I was very impressed by the beer selection available. I was also inpressed with the feel of the town. The area around the Capitol was very clean and had a TON of great places to just sit outside, drink beer, and watch the people walk by.

It was also one of the most beautiful cities I’d ever visited. I’m sure it sucks in the winter, but if you like the lake, go to Madison in Summer. Great bike trails, friendly college feel. One of the most relaxing vacations I’ve had in years. Perfect destination for a long weekend in the Summer.

I’m sure it goes to crap once football season gears up. And I bet its miserable in winter, but I was impressed with the town overall.

What would happen if you transported all the residents of madison down to Baton Rouge for a gameday between the Badgers and Tigers?

Only Mike Barwis/Chuck Norris/Bill Brasky knows………

Cocktails for the Lewis Black reference, O.

watching that video gives me confirmation of the hypothesis that the degeneration of our nation is the result of a total loss of manners in the Northern states… which is bleeding south by the minute

how sad

Woo-hoo for my hometown’s drinking prowess!

That said, I do not recommend Camp Randall as a road trip. No parking, the fans are obnoxious (really? You are throwing the beer bottles you snuck in at a Northwestern fan? And a girl Northwestern fan at that? Thank goodness I wasn’t in my Notre Dame gear, as I don’t think I would survive the trip into the stadium), and it’s insanely crowded everywhere on a football weekend.

Come to Madison for drinky times during the summer. Nothing beats a pitcher of beer at the Union Terrace on a summer night.

I think our meth labs are competing for the beer drinking dollar in Alabama.

I love how the whole upper Midwest is a hotbed of binge drinking.

I went to Madison in ’02 and watched Larry Johnson run over the Badgers. I have zero recollection of the game beyond press reports.

My weekend constituted flying in late Friday. Showing up to Denny’s drunk. Almost getting tipped over in a port-o-potty (it was my PSU fans, not Badger fans), drinking half a bottle of Jack in the stadium, drinking again at some random porch party, and passing out on the hood of my rental car, which was parked next to Sue Paterno’s car.

Bottle of tylenol and a couple of screw-drivers and the shaking stopped sunday morning.

Madison was awesome

I’d like to see data on Michigan separated between the Upper and Lower Peninsulas. I’m sure the UP would be comparable in binge drinking. Because there is nothing else to do up there besides get wasted and shoot things.

The idea of watching a football game, getting inebriated with the possibility of passing out in a parking lot and freezing to death holds very little appeal to me. I once awoke on a November Sunday morning nude amidst a hedge of azaleas around the parking lot of Ricky’s in Gainesville to the sound of flies buzzing in a stain which I expect was my previous nights celebratory multiple pitchers, and the walk home was notable, not because I had no clothes, but rather because I needed none from a weather standpoint. Of course the police felt slightly different about the legal acceptability of my attire, or lack of.

One must adjust one’s location ot one’s proclivities if one is to survive to indulge extensively in said proclivities…

21, the problem is not very many people actually live in the UP. The population at least doubles up there during the summer from people from the LP, Wisconsin and Chicago having summer homes up there.

My last time in Madison as a single guy, it was out of football season, we went out to multiple bars and somehow a friend and I ended up riding around in a limo with four “cougars”. And yeah, if you can’t find decent beer in Madison you ain’t trying. New Glarus Spotted Cow is so ubiquitous we called it “Cudweiser”.

Please, I don’t fear Wisconsin drinking. Come down to Tulane and drink. Nobody goes to our football games, so we don’t get a three and a half hour break from boozing in the middle of the day; we go straight through. Bitches.

What little I remember of Halloween 1983 (or 82? don’t feel like looking it up) convinced me that Madison was one of America’s great party towns, winter be damned.

Sarah’s right about the parking situation, though. Orson, you simply must make the trip, just have someone else mind the EDSBS Danger Cart.

As far as where the binge drinking in Michigan starts, I’d say it’s a line running Grosse Pointe-Royal Oak-Southfield-Ann Arbor-Kalamazoo-Benton Harbor. (Because there’s nothing like having a naked coed drunk on your front lawn and then throwing up in your garage.)

1. - you vacationed in Madison??? Good lord you must have already been drunk when you chose that place above all others as your vacation destination.

Oh my, that’s intelligent!

At least at Texas the “Give em hell, give em hell, make em eat shit!” is part of the fight song and not just some “hey-we’re-up-by-thirty-now-what-do-we-do?” mindless chant.

Also, hell and shit are acceptable, I think. Fuck is a bit off sides. For language, I mean.

Woohoo! My home state, Nebraska, made the top 10.

I’ve never been to Madison, but Milwaukee is indeed a drinky, drinky town.

Went to Madison last year and watched my alma mater, The Citadel, put up a strong effort against the Badgers. Unbelievably good time. It appears that most of the students head back to the dorm after the Fifth Quarter, so the bars were wide open for us “older folks”. The place was Cougar Heaven—we stumbled into two bachelorette parties, both with attractive women in their forties who hadn’t been out of the house in a while.

I can’t wait to go back.

Cheers and chants north of, oh, Tennessee are always dependably pathetic. Every team in the Big East has a chant with that same moronic Northeastern sing-song rhythm, you know the one: “Let’s – Go – Or – ange, clap-clap, clap-clap-clap, Let’s – Go – Or – ange”. If this clip is representative of the Big Ten, color me unimpressed.

Whoo Iowa, I guess? I knew we were a bunch of drunks, but I didn’t know it was quite that extreme. I guess the players have to give the girls lots of beer first.

#26

Madison was the destination of choice because I was going to be there anyway for a tournament and just chose to stay a couple of days after.

Ah, I have fond memories of Mad Town from Halloween ’03. Meeting two random freshmen girls with my buddy (We were 22, but they read at a sophmore level) and winding up in their dorm rooms. Almost getting arrested while dressed as Party Boy (Minus the thong. I saved some dignity and went boxers) from Jackass. The town is insane during the fall. I HIGHLY recommend spending a weekend there, and I probably will go watch my beloved Gophers get slaughtered there this fall again.