Ed Bosold hears people discussing the Paul Bunyan Axe and he can’t figure out what the fuss is all about.
A linebacker for the University of Wisconsin from 1971 to ’73, Bosold recalls those Badgers wanting to beat Minnesota because the team was their rival and it was always the last game of the season, not so they could race over and snatch the axe from the Gophers.
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