Couple of anecdotes:
ON Thurs, a guy sitting by himself on the car rental shuttle out of the blue yells across the bus to us: "you know we're going to kick your ***!". I turned, expecting a good natured smile, and he had a serious, maniacal look on his face.
Decided last minute to take public transportation to Pasadena due to all the parking uncertainty, and rode on the trains with hundreds of drunk, surly Wiscy fans. Lots of cat calls, FU's, put downs mumbled just loud enough to make sure we heard. I told my wife we might have to take a cab back to the hotel if we lost because I thought this crowd could get ugly. Thank gawd we won because that was the quietest train ride I've ever taken. Not a single Wiscy fan said a word.
I did have one young Wiscy fan ask me after walking out of the train station why we weren't bragging. I told him we did our talking on the field.
One young Wiscy couple with a child congratulated us on the street in Pasadena, and another guy offered to buy us a beer in Pasadena, then revealed that he's really a USC fan.
Nicest couple we encountered were Oregon folks who came down for the game on their way to Phoenix. We sat next to them in a Pasadena restaurant and talked awhile and when we left, we walked about a mile toward the stadium when the Oregon guy runs up behind us out of breath to return a glove my wife left on the table.
These Wiscy folks aren't bad people, I just feel like we encountered a culture we've never encountered before. It's a little more understandable with drunk students (like at Tech) but in most cases if those TEch student's parents saw them behaving that way, it would be dealt with. With Wiscy, it appears to be a part of their cultural fabric, unfortunately.
