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2017 NCAA tournament selection thread

Re: 2017 NCAA tournament selection thread

1st - 2nd - and 3rd - ALL FROM WISCONSIN - results announced tonight
http://usccc.myentries.org/contest/results/top-three?event=60

2017 U.S. CHAMPION
Mike Matucheski
Sartori
Antigo, WI
Reserve Black Pepper BellaVitano
Champion Round Score: 99.018

2017 First Runner Up
Terry Lensmire
Agropur
Weyauwega, WI
Aged Cheddar
Champion Round Score: 98.813

2017 Second Runner Up
Marieke Gouda Team
Marieke Gouda
Thorp, WI
Marieke Gouda Belegen
Champion Round Score: 98.593
 
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Re: 2017 NCAA tournament selection thread

NUProf said:
Why do Packers Fans wear Swiss cheese hats if Wisconsin brags about their (dyed) cheddar?
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Cheddar categories:
CHEDDAR, MILD (0 TO 3 MONTHS)
1st and 2nd, Wisconsin
3rd, Vermont

CHEDDAR, MEDIUM (3 TO 6 MONTHS)
1st and 2nd, Wisconsin
3rd, NY

CHEDDAR, SHARP (6 MONTHS TO 1 YEAR)
1-2-3, Wisconsin

CHEDDAR, AGED ONE TO TWO YEARS
1-2-3, Wisconsin

CHEDDAR, AGED TWO YEARS OR LONGER
1-2-3, Wisconsin

BANDAGED CHEDDAR, MILD TO MEDIUM
1-2-3, Wisconsin

BANDAGED CHEDDAR, SHARP TO AGED
1, Wisconsin
2-3, Vermont

You were saying? :D
 
GB Puck Fan said:
Cheddar categories:
CHEDDAR, MILD (0 TO 3 MONTHS)
1st and 2nd, Wisconsin
3rd, Vermont

CHEDDAR, MEDIUM (3 TO 6 MONTHS)
1st and 2nd, Wisconsin
3rd, NY

CHEDDAR, SHARP (6 MONTHS TO 1 YEAR)
1-2-3, Wisconsin

CHEDDAR, AGED ONE TO TWO YEARS
1-2-3, Wisconsin

CHEDDAR, AGED TWO YEARS OR LONGER
1-2-3, Wisconsin

BANDAGED CHEDDAR, MILD TO MEDIUM
1-2-3, Wisconsin

BANDAGED CHEDDAR, SHARP TO AGED
1, Wisconsin
2-3, Vermont

You were saying? :D
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That's what happens when the judges are Packers fans... they get jealous that New England has a Super Bowl Champion, so they take it out on the Vermont cheese ;)
 
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CARDS_rule_the_Burgh said:
That's what happens when the judges are Packers fans... they get jealous that New England has a Super Bowl Champion, so they take it out on the Vermont cheese ;)
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Ha. Except the judges don't know whose entry is whose when sampling the products...

Besides, wasn't the "biggest moment in Vermont sports history" winning a first-round NCAA basketball game? Pretty sure Wisconsin's not jealous of that... :D
http://www.espn.com/blog/playbook/fandom/post/_/id/4610/best-sports-moment-in-each-of-the-50-states
 
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Three topics I try to avoid in social settings:

Religion

Politics

What color cheese should (not) be.
 
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Guys its CHEESE..... all that matters is that you put it on the best HAMBURGERS around found here in NY.... (TIC)
 
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You never answered my question about why Wisconsin brags about cheddar but wears styrofoam Swiss cheese on their heads. ;)
 
Re: 2017 NCAA tournament selection thread

NUProf said:
You never answered my question about why Wisconsin brags about cheddar but wears styrofoam Swiss cheese on their heads. ;)
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Swiss is more stylish on a hat?

The real story is that some Brewers fans were upset at being called 'cheeseheads' by White Sox fans. Inspiration struck, and they created the hat to negate the insult and turn it into a tongue-in-cheek badge of honor. Pretty good accounting of it here, including noting that the hat really has parts of three cheeses;
http://www.espn.com/nfl/playoffs/2010/columns/story?page=hotread21/Cheesehead
 
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GB Puck Fan said:
Swiss is more stylish on a hat?

The real story is that some Brewers fans were upset at being called 'cheeseheads' by White Sox fans. Inspiration struck, and they created the hat to negate the insult and turn it into a tongue-in-cheek badge of honor. Pretty good accounting of it here, including noting that the hat really has parts of three cheeses;
http://www.espn.com/nfl/playoffs/2010/columns/story?page=hotread21/Cheesehead
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So did Wisconsiners (ites, ians?) then retaliate by calling them "Flat Landers"? Because as a native Illinoisian who attended Lutheran schools, and therefore had A LOT of teachers from Wisconsin, I never understood why that was suppose to be an insult and/or funny.
 
NUProf said:
You never answered my question about why Wisconsin brags about cheddar but wears styrofoam Swiss cheese on their heads. ;)
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Not Swiss cheese...a sofa cushion...from a 2008 newspaper story t

How it all began.....

To think, if it weren't for that girl coming up and trying on Ralph Bruno's new hat, he might still have been known as the guy who made a cheese hat out of his mom's couch cushion.

Instead, he's the inventor of the Cheesehead. We like to think of him as Father Fromage.

"I was reupholstering my mother's couch when I got the idea," Bruno said Friday from Wisconsin. "People from Chicago would also call people from Wisconsin 'cheeseheads' in sort of a negative connotation.

"But I liked cheese and I figured what's the big deal? So I cut out a piece of the cushion of the couch, burnt some holes in it and painted it to look like a big slice of cheddar cheese."

The Cheesehead's first appearance wasn't at a Packers game, instead debuting at a Milwaukee Brewers game in 1987. Bruno never planned for the cheddar cap to take off, but as he sat around in the stands, people started to ask where he got it.

That's when Bruno thought he might be onto something.

"I didn't have a college degree," Bruno said. "It was a combination of a lack of knowledge -- not knowing that I should quit my job and go door-to-door with this thing that helped it take off."

Bruno used a grassroots campaign to sell the idea of the Cheesehead. He went to different sporting events and shop them to Wisconsinites. They bought hard.

"It's so gratifying, for sure, to see it so popular now," he said. "It's such an important part of fan morale. They're the ones that make the hat popular."

This week, with the NFC Championship Game between the Green Bay Packers and Giants set for tomorrow evening, Bruno's St. Francis, Wis.-based company Foamation, Inc., which makes his Cheesehead and other related products is putting in nearly double the amount of orders they usually take.

While he doesn't disclose how many Cheeseheads the company actually sells -- "It adds to the mystique," he says -- Bruno says the number is in the thousands.

Bruno, who still lives in Wisconsin doesn't get to many sporting events, much less Packers games. He's too busy producing hats, cup holders and other cheese apparel to get to Lambeau Field. Although since he's the creator of the Cheesehead, everyone tries to hit him up for tickets.

He won't get a chance to watch tomorrow's game -- though, of course, he's rooting for a Packers' victory -- but, he will have a smile on his face when he sees all his Cheeseheads keeping fans warm.

As for the original?

"Right now, it's in a plastic bag in the hall closet," Bruno said. "Hopefully they'll win so I get to take it out in two weeks."

Brendan Prunty may be reached at bprunty@starledger.com
 
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