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Badgers football: SI cover story tells agonizing tale

A quick cover-to-cover flip through the latest issue of Sports Illustrated produced two prominent references to the University of Wisconsin football team. One was a photo of Camp Randall Stadium in the Lineup section entitled “American Idyll.??It was taken during the season opener with Northern Iowa on Sept. 1. The other was in the Scorecard section where Dan Patrick interviewed former Badgers quarterback Russell Wilson, now the surprise rookie starter in Seattle. There was another UW reference in the magazine, but you had to dig fairly deep to find it. When you did, you couldn?t help but be saddened.