On November 26 of last year, the Wisconsin Badgers football team played their final game of the season against their hated rivals, the Minnesota Golden Gophers. The game saw 54 people ejected (27 of whom were students), 16 people arrested, and another 16 cited (one for the overly polite-sounding charge of “disposing of human waste”).
Compare that crowd to the one that gathered the previous weekend at Lambeau Field, home of the Green Bay Packers and the mecca of professional drinking in America. Despite the doctoral levels of inebriation among fans watching the Packers defeat the Dallas Cowboys, there were only five arrests and eleven ejections. (If you are designated “the drunk” at a Packers game, you have achieved bacchanalian immortality.)
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