Badger Game in Seoul

So the weekend of the Wisconsin vs #1 Ohio State game I wanted to be no where else in the world but Madison. But unfortunately there was a bit of a lengthy travel needed for that so the closest I could get to Madison was a sports bar in Seoul. Due to the time difference, the Saturday night game really started at 9:00am in Korea, but the sports bar we went to started the delayed game at 1:00pm. I really came close to bailing on the trip down to Seoul because I was so tired and felt like sleeping in all day, but boy, am I glad that I made that trip.

Walking into the sports bar I immediately got chills down my back. Wisconsin football was on every single television in the bar and there must have been at least 20 people with Wisconsin gear on. It felt like I was back in my true one and only home...Madison, WI. It was really hard not to look up the score since the game had already finished by the time we started watching it but somehow I managed. It was also strange thinking that all of my friends at home (Shout out to Joelle, Watts, Cozzini, Hewitt, Gigl, Mirsky, Holway, Fahey,, Jacobus, and the rest of the crew) were already partying like crazy in the greatest college sports town in the nation. (Reference Scott Van Pelt: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DchbLXhIt8M)

Anyways, so everyone knows what happened in the game so I don't need to go on about how incredible it was that we beat Ohio State. But being almost 10,000 miles away from Madison on such a momentous occasion in Badger history absolutely killed me. It was so depressing knowing that my college years are behind my and I wasn't able to storm the field with all of my friends back home.  Luckily, I had 20+ more badgers with me at the bar to celebrate the win with me halfway across the world. It is amazing how well badgers travel. The day was perfect. We had eggs benedict, hash browns, and bloody marys for breakfast...beer was only $2 a pint...and Wisconsin beat the #1 seed for the first time in decades. I couldn't have been happier that I made the trip. Check out some of the photos below.

All of us holding #1 up in the air after the game had just ended. So strange to think that as we realized we won the people in Madison had already been partying for four hours!

Keith of course dropped like 5,000 dollars on buying everyone drinks per his usual, and he was the hero of the day for making sure that everyone was as intoxicated as a badger should be. Thanks Keith, you are the man.