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Any college football fan will tell you there are a handful of sites around the country where an autumn Saturday is automatically a football Saturday. Camp Randall in Madison is one such site. The Badger’s enjoy one of America ’s best home field advantages at home, and the traditions make taking in a game more of an experience than an event. For 10 straight years, the student section has been shaking the stadium, quite literally, in between the 3rd and 4th quarters by dancing to “Jump Around” from House of Pain. The Camp Randall crowd also offers one of the most choreographed “waves” in the world, with multiple speeds and reverses by the crowd. Just be sure to stick around after the clock hits zero, as thousands of fans sing and dance to the UW marching band for fifteen minutes in a spectacle known as “The Fifth Quarter”.
One of the largest collegiate hockey arena’s to consistently sell-out, Badger fans are as crazy about their hockey as they are about their football. And with good reason: the Badger women’s hockey teams have won National Championships in 2006 and 2007, while the men’s team won in 2006, giving the University of Wisconsin the distinction of being the first DI school in history to win both the men’s and women’s National Championships in the same year.
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A summer-collegiate baseball team, the atmosphere at the Mallards’ home field, appropriately called the Duck Pond, is akin to the movie “Bull Durham”. Every night is a theme night, and each theme is designed to be fun, often frivolous. Average attendance is north of 5,000, and the players are all college ballplayers playing for the summer, meaning seriousness takes a back seat to fun. Be sure to take in a game in the Duck Blind, a one-price all-you-can-eat-and-drink section overlooking right field.
Catching a game at the Kohl Center is akin to guaranteeing a Badger victory…the Badgers are 125-11 all time at home in the Kohl. From the raucous student section known as the Grateful Red, to the packed alumni seats, every game is a sell-out and the Kohl is rocking no matter who comes knocking.
Known as “football for the love of the game”, the Madison Mustangs are a semi-professional football team who play without pay every Saturday during the summer. Part of the Wisconsin semi-pro football culture (www.wisemipro.com), the Mustangs have existed in some shape or form since the early 1970’s. Crowds aren’t huge like at a Badger’s game, but the atmosphere is more intimate, the games are as competitive, and you have the chance to mingle with players afterwards
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