Post by WIUWUWM on Mar 24, 2005 12:43:50 GMT -6
I've never posted on a sports message board before so please bare with me.
... Watching and cheering UWM (and UW) to the Sweet Sixteen has been amazing. I've been out of college a few years so I haven't watch or been to nearly as many games as I once was. I'm a UW alum and my boyfriend is a UWM alum. I always cheer for them both (and I cheer for Marquette to as long as there not playing the Bagders.)
Anyway, watching these games has meant a lot to me personally and reminded me of a few great moments for me in the last couple of years. My grandmother was a huge basketball fan for all Wisconsin teams - UWM, UW, Marquette, UWGB, men, women, you name it. She'd stay up to the wee hours of the morning watching Marquette in the Alaskan shoot-out, she was excited when the Panters nearly upset Nortre Dame a couple of years ago, she always complained about comentators saying Badger play was too slow.
It didn't matter what else was going on - If a Wisconsin team was playing basketball on TV - she'd watched it.
If anyone can imagine a 86 year old grandmother watching basketball so intently, it is really a sight to see. As she got older over the last couple of years and was not able to get out of her apartment that much these games meant more to her. She really liked Bruce Pearl and what he did for UWM and the city of Milwaukee.
From her first date with my grandfather in the late 1930s (early 1940s) when they made a bet on a Marquette-UW football game (yes back when they both played football), to greeting the Marquette team at the airport when they won the national championship, to watching a Badger game in the hospital the last weekend she was still with us this February, she was a huge fan for all Wisconsin teams.
Last weekend after the UWM - BC game I called my grandmother's sister. 92 years old and she had watched every moment of the game. We spoke about how much two Wisconsin teams in the Sweet Sixteen would have meant to her sister and my grandmother.
So after this really long, really personal post I guess I just wanted to say thanks to the UWM team, the UW team, Coach Pearl, Coach Ryan, and all of the fans. You've made Wisconsin proud and for me you brought back some great memories of my grandmother.
Good Luck --- Go Panthers.
... Watching and cheering UWM (and UW) to the Sweet Sixteen has been amazing. I've been out of college a few years so I haven't watch or been to nearly as many games as I once was. I'm a UW alum and my boyfriend is a UWM alum. I always cheer for them both (and I cheer for Marquette to as long as there not playing the Bagders.)
Anyway, watching these games has meant a lot to me personally and reminded me of a few great moments for me in the last couple of years. My grandmother was a huge basketball fan for all Wisconsin teams - UWM, UW, Marquette, UWGB, men, women, you name it. She'd stay up to the wee hours of the morning watching Marquette in the Alaskan shoot-out, she was excited when the Panters nearly upset Nortre Dame a couple of years ago, she always complained about comentators saying Badger play was too slow.
It didn't matter what else was going on - If a Wisconsin team was playing basketball on TV - she'd watched it.
If anyone can imagine a 86 year old grandmother watching basketball so intently, it is really a sight to see. As she got older over the last couple of years and was not able to get out of her apartment that much these games meant more to her. She really liked Bruce Pearl and what he did for UWM and the city of Milwaukee.
From her first date with my grandfather in the late 1930s (early 1940s) when they made a bet on a Marquette-UW football game (yes back when they both played football), to greeting the Marquette team at the airport when they won the national championship, to watching a Badger game in the hospital the last weekend she was still with us this February, she was a huge fan for all Wisconsin teams.
Last weekend after the UWM - BC game I called my grandmother's sister. 92 years old and she had watched every moment of the game. We spoke about how much two Wisconsin teams in the Sweet Sixteen would have meant to her sister and my grandmother.
So after this really long, really personal post I guess I just wanted to say thanks to the UWM team, the UW team, Coach Pearl, Coach Ryan, and all of the fans. You've made Wisconsin proud and for me you brought back some great memories of my grandmother.
Good Luck --- Go Panthers.
