Comments on: YOU’RE NOT ALCOHOLICS, YOU’RE PROFESSIONALS.

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:30:51 +0000

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.

By: CincySooner

CincySooner — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:20:03 +0000

#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.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 02:55:37 +0000

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.

By: SDF Fan

SDF Fan — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 01:22:14 +0000

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.

By: Brandon Lang

Brandon Lang — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 01:13:42 +0000

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.

By: twogreattastes

twogreattastes — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:20:03 +0000

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

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

By: Gen. Stoopnagle

Gen. Stoopnagle — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:49:03 +0000

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.

By: Last Dragon

Last Dragon — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:10:14 +0000

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

By: PJ from NU in SF

PJ from NU in SF — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:51:12 +0000

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.)

By: Rufus McStevenson

Rufus McStevenson — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:20:54 +0000

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.

By: Yinka Double Dare

Yinka Double Dare — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:25:44 +0000

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”.

By: sb

sb — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:07:41 +0000

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…

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:52:52 +0000

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.

By: PSUrob

PSUrob — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:42:16 +0000

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

By: meatybob

meatybob — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:40:16 +0000

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