• I’ve been a “sports nut” since I was 8 years old back in 1960 and Saturday’s Wisconsin sports events made the biggest impact on me than any one-day schedule in the past 51 years!
• I currently have a Voiceseyeonfootball.blogspot.com poll running adjacent to this post asking what was the event that interested you most on Saturday? Was it the Warhawk game, the Badger game, or the Brewer’s Playoff game. VOTE NOW!
• The biggest stat of the weekend was that the Platteville-Whitewater game at the Perk outdrew the St. Johns at St. Thomas game in the MIAC. 10,632 at the Perk - 10,421 at O'Shaunessey Stadium (UST)
• Their was once a time that when each year's UW-Whitewater football schedule came out you would compare it to the Badgers' schedule to see if the UWW home games were the same day as UW home games. Family Day had a great deal to do with Perkins Stadium's fourth largest crowd in stadium history Packing the Perk on Saturday. A two-time defending Division III national champion and 33-game win streak also had a lot to do with the big crowd.
• When you have direct competition with the Milwaukee Brewers opening the playoffs just 45 minutes east of UWW - and a frenzied game-day in Madison ahead of Saturday night's UW-Nebraska nationally televised game at Camp Randall - Saturday's Perkins Stadium crowd may be the most impressive in Perk history!
• BTW – St. Thomas beat a once nationally elite St. Johns 63-7 at St. Thomas on Saturday. The Johnnies fall to 2 & 3 on the season and 1 & 2 in the MAIC. Much like La Crosse, St. Johns under coaching icon John Gagliardi hasn’t fully recovered to "elite" status since Whitewater beat the Johnnies 34-7 (2005 playoffs) and 17-14 (2006 playoffs). Both losses were at Whitewater.
• Warhawks got a bit of a “wake-up call” in Saturday’s conference opener against Platteville. Game was tied 14-all at halftime. The good news was that UWW made halftime adjustments and dominated in the 2nd half. The “wake-up call” may be just what the team needed.
• Bob and Jan Berezowitz and I were at American Family Childrens Hospital last Friday afternoon to personally extend our “get well” wishes for little Luka Ogrizovich. The newborn baby of Mal and Ryan “Griz” Ogrizovich has fought gallantly and is now on the road to recovery following a battle with life-threatening propionic academia (a rare genetic metabolic disorder)
• On the way home from the visiting the “family Griz” I drove through the back street of the University of Wisconsin campus. I was on a back-street behind Bascom Hall stuck in traffic. I had my Sirius Satellite Radio blaring away. Now this is freaky – all of a sudden on Sirius Channel 6 the Buffalo Springfield Vietnam War protest song “For What Its Worth” came on the radio. As I’m stuck in traffic – I look to my left and I’m stopped directly in front of UW’s Sterling Hall – where a Vietnam War protest bombing was committed on August 24, 1970 was committed by four young people as a protest against the University's research connections with the US military. The bombing resulted in the death of a university physics researcher and injuries to three others. For a Vietnam era baby boomer – the song and where I was on campus shook me to the core!
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