Student Section Craziness

 The Wisconsin Badgers have been playing at Camp Randall since 1917. I was in attendance for the game against Rutgers. One of my roommates is a Wisconsin native and he got us tickets in the student section. When we first arrived near the stadium we walked around taking in all the tailgating and other events going around by the stadium. We then heard the Wisconsin marching band play at an outdoor auditorium about an hour before kick-off. I was shocked to see the amount of people in attendance. It was a rainy day but that didn't stop the die hard Wisconsin Badger fans. The student section ticket process included getting a student admission ticket. Once we had the student admission ticket we exchanged it for an actual section. In this particular case we were in section O which is located in the corner of one of the end zones. The game started and nobody in the student section was seated. Instead everyone just stood onto of the metal bleachers. Throughout the game the student section started chants, and help start the wave in the stadium. The wave had to be started and restarted twice, but it did in fact make it around the stadium.

At the end of the third quarter I got to first hand witness a tradition that date's back to October 10th, 1998. The song "Jump Around" by House of Pain gets blasted through the stadium speakers and the student section, along with the whole stadium goes into a frenzy. You literally can feel the stadium shake while you are jumping. The Badgers ended up beating Rutgers 48-10. The overall experience was great and if you are a college football fan I would highly recommend going to see a game at Camp Randall.