Best newspaper story lead following Warhawk win over Dakota State last weekend was Tim Wester's lead in the Janesville Gazette...
Dakota State’s football team probably has a pretty good idea of what General Custer felt like during his infamous last stand.
The Trojans quietly limped off the Perkins Stadium turf in a haze of gunpowder from all the celebratory cannon shots fired after each UW-Whitewater touchdown during their painful 70-7 annihilation at the hands of the top-ranked Warhawks here Saturday.
The cannon fire is courtesy of Mike Lesco, the Cannon Guy, who has fired his Civil War vintage cannon at Warhawk football games in Perkins Stadium for the past two decades.
The NCAA will not allow the cannon inside the Perkins Stadium gates during the NCAA Division III playoff games which drew very vocal protest from UW-Whitewater football fans for the past five seasons.
The past four years during the playoffs, Lesco moved his artillery on top of the hill overlooking Perkins Stadium from the southeastern side. During the playoff games Lesco is actually firing off howitzers.
One of the funniest Cannon Guy stories happened during the 2005 playoff game vs. St. Johns at the Perk.
The Johnnies iconic head coach John Gagliardi almost jumped out of his shoes after the Warhawks scored its first touchdown on the way to 34-7 win in the first game between the two schools at Perkins Stadium.
It was shortly after that incident the U-Dub-Dub received word from the NCAA that the cannon would not be allowed inside the stadium during postseason games.
Another school complained the cannon fire following each Warhawk touchdown was “embarrassing” for his team.
Lesco, unable to have his cannon at the Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl the past five years posted the following here on Warhawkfootball.com: The NCAA may have silenced Mike Lesco's cannon during game action last week vs. Wesley. The cannon will not be silenced today however. Mike Lesco, AKA (Cannon Guy), writes in this Web site's guest book,The cannon is standing by (my house) in West Bend. You can bet I'll be watching ESPN and running outside to fire it for every touchdown. GO WARHAWKS!!!! EXPECT A "BIG BOOM"!!
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