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2 unusual facts about Wisconsin Badgers football


ESPN College Football

However, because bowl games operate outside the control of the NCAA, ESPN was able to air the 1982 Independence Bowl between Kansas State and Wisconsin live (through a simulcast with the Mizlou Television Network) – the first live football game televised on ESPN.

WTJK

Recent shows added to the WTJK lineup include Tuesdays With Aaron, a comprehensive interview with Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers, Inside Huskies Football, featuring Northern Illinois Huskies football coach Dave Doeren, The Badger Hour, a one-hour show devoted to Wisconsin Badgers football, and The Lance Leipold Show, featuring Wisconsin-Whitewater Warhawks football coach Lance Leipold.


Ben Gardner

Gardner started all 14 games of the 2012 season, including the Pac-12 Championship Game vs. UCLA and the 2013 Rose Bowl vs. Wisconsin.

Chuck Carney

After leaving Illinois, Carney served as end coach at Northwestern, Wisconsin, and Harvard before entering the investment banking business as a New York Stock Exchange representative for the firm of Dominick and Dominick.

Clarence Herschberger

There are accounts that Herschberger challenged Chicago's quarterback Walter Kennedy to an eating contest before a football game with the Wisconsin Badgers.

Jamie Morris

While he recuperated Thomas Wilcher rushed for 74 yards and two touchdowns against Wisconsin.

Pete Beathard

Both he and Ron Vander Kelen, the Wisconsin quarterback were named the Rose Bowl Player Of The Game in the 1963 Rose Bowl.

WRIT-FM

On December 2, 2013, Learfield Sports and the University of Wisconsin–Madison announced that WRIT-FM would begin to carry Wisconsin Badgers football and men's basketball broadcasts in 2014, simulcast from primary Badgers affiliate WOKY.


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