Lately I've become a Wisconsin Badger fan mostly by association. Today before the Iowa-Wisconsin basketball game, an Iowa fan threw down his best smack-talk by shouting into the ESPN cameras that "a badger is really just a big, ugly rat!"
Either our Hawkeye friend never passed high school biology or they have some Rodents of Unusual Size in Iowa, because there are some pretty substantial differences between rats and badgers. For starters, badgers *eat* rats. And squirrels, chipmunks, and birds. One even chewed through the ignition wires of a car parked in front of our cabin in Canada.
Badgers aren't rodents; they are more closely related to polecats, ferrets, and skunks (whew). Which they also eat. So while rats are disgusting and transmit disease, badgers are just plain mean.
And from what I've heard, so are Wisconsin fans.
4 comments:
Badgers! We don't need no stinkin' badgers!
O yes we do say that again and i will kill you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and i hope u die a horrable death
@ steven.... i've heard that badger sized rat's can really tear up the mic... wookie goldberg.. reconise.
where can i find this video of the fan heckling the camera man with his rat/badger insult?
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