It never fails.
Whenever a team has an opportunity to thank its fans, everyone from the head coach to the last scrub off the bench crows about how their supporters are the greatest in the world.
Such superlatives have been bestowed upon the sea of red that frequents Camp Randall Stadium on fall football Saturdays, especially after the Badgers started regularly giving their faithful something to cheer about again in the early 1990s.
But how do you measure the caliber of a crowd?