Wisconsin Football Upgrading Helmets In 2015

MADISON, Wisconsin –

Second-year head coach Gary Andersen said he wants his team to express the ferocity of their mascot, the badger, better than they do. That is why he plans to add authentic mohawk badger tails to his players’ helmets in 2015.

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“When those boys are on the field, I don’t want them to feel like humans,” Anderson wrote in an internal memo. “I want them to feel like animals. Like badgers! Fearless, vicious, attacking creatures that have a mindset of kill or be killed. That lust their enemy’s blood, that want to tear open their enemy’s raw flesh and eat it for breakfast. This helmet will make them feel like real animals, like real badgers.”

Andersen also feels the badger mascot has taken a back door as more focus has been placed on the players and coaches.

“The mascot is just as important as the coaches, as the team, as winning,” Andersen wrote, “and having these new helmets will be a way to literally carry a part of our mascot with us during every game, during every play. Our mascot will be with us. I couldn’t be more excited.”

Fan reaction to the new helmets should prove interesting.


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