Sorry I haven’t been posting my hard drive crashed, so all I have is my phone
Today’s Uni-Watch: A Badger State Road Trip
Uni-watch’s post today (10/7/11) is a Badger State Road Trip, some of the best attractions of Wisconsin.
For those of you unfamiliar with Uni-Watch, it is self-described as the obsessive study of athletic aesthetics, and is well worth your time if you are interested in sports uniforms, quirks, and history.
Bike polo
In Milwaukee, Lodewijk Broekhuizen and Jacob Newborn demonstrated the Next Big Thing in Sports. “It’s a combination between hockey and smash derby with the cars, where people just run cars into one another because these guys are ruthless,” said designer Drew Triplett of Milwaukee Bicycle Co. “For the most part, they’re all for the ball and a lot of times they try to get around one another, but it doesn’t happen.” With predictable results, of course.
“This is Brewers baseball, in which a team seeking its first World Series title still has time for complete nuttiness.”
The Brewers sausage race, as described by the New York Times.
If you have the time, I do encourage you to give a listen.
Wise words from a wise man.
Go Badgers!
