If you want to be a badger, then come along with me...

…all the way to Lima, Perú. As I’m sure you know, yesterday was the Wisconsin-Nebraska football game. Us Badgers here in Lima weren’t about to miss out on one of the biggest games of the season, so we headed to The Corner, an American style sports Bar that plays international sports games. We ended up taking over about half the bar with our red shirts and Wisconsin chants. We celebrated “first and ten Wisconsin”, counted push-ups, and even jumped around in between the third and fourth quarters. I'm not quite sure what the bartenders thought of us, but since we were paying, they just let us be. Our touchdown celebrations we quite rowdy, as you can see below.

We met some fellow Wisconsinites at the bar, including one fellow with a Brewers shirt, a couple from Madison, and an older woman who googled “sports bar Lima” and showed up at The Corner. By the beginning of the second half, we were all buds, cheering and groaning together as we watched the game. There were also some Nebraska fans there, who took a good-natured ribbing from us throughout the game. We tried to get them to pay our bill at the end of the night, to no avail. This Nebraska fan (in black) ended the night in (fake) tears.

This game is my new favorite game day memory. I’m still amazed by the ability of the Badger spirit to bring together a group of people in comraderie a continent away from the game.

We finished out the night with a rousing rendition of “If You Want to Be a Badger”, because we know that even here in Lima, everyone wants to be a Badger.