OF ALL the intriguing characters who have passed through Camp Randall Stadium over the years, on and off the field, perhaps no one is as mysterious as the “Phantom,” who according to legend saw every home Badger football game in the 1970s – without once buying a ticket.
For a time the Phantom existed only in whispered stories of disguises, derring-do and close encounters with uniformed ushers. But then, sometime in the mid-1970s, Fred Milverstedt wrote about the Phantom in his Capital Times sports column, and the Phantom was immortalized.