The Monday, October 17, 2005 edition of the Janesville Gazette included a commentary on the front page of the sports section by Tom Powers, a writer for the St. Paul Pioneer Press. The commentary was entitled, "Ouch: Loss will haunt Gophers," and of course dealt with the Badgers' freaky win over the Gophers.

In this piece, Mr. Powers writes, "The actual on-the-field loss is tough, obviously. But a defeat always gives the Badgers' coaching staff- regarded as the Big Ten Conference kingpins of negative recruiting- a little more ammunition." Kingpins of negative recruiting? I've never heard that before. But, what the heck.... We're #1... We're #1...!!

The commentary included a quote by Minnesota coach Glen Mason that I thought really strange at first, "It really hurts. It hurts more than when you get killed."

Oh, Mah, gopher stew agin'? But we had that last year!