We are the idiots who bleed purple. We’re sorry for banging on your door to tell you to come to a football game, and no, we don’t think your vintage USC t-shirt is fly.
The thing is, we know we’re the minority. We don’t like it, we don’t get it, and we wish it were the other way around—the teams we cheer for do, too.
Here at The Post, we aim to change that. We’re here to entertain you, while also making sure you don’t confuse Mike Kafka with Franz. We will give you the X’s and O’s, but we will also tell you about the athletes and the culture that makes athletics at Northwestern what it is. We will ridicule not only opposing schools, but also our own die-hard fans that spend much of their days on message boards talking about the Wildcats—and yes, those people do exist.
We hope to make you laugh and make you cry but, most importantly, we hope to make you reconsider staying in bed on Saturday mornings in the fall.
See, sports at Northwestern aren’t just a matter of wins and losses. Athletes are students, and they are our peers. They do go to class; they do live with us in the dorms. We want to take you into the lives of the athletes off the field.
There is no doubt that being a Wildcats fan has its ups and downs. We’ve experienced the thrill of rushing the field after NU beat Illinois last year, only to drop our heads in defeat when the ‘Cats let the Alamo Bowl slip out of their hands against Missouri. But we have plenty of top-notch programs, even in unlikely places. Softball, anyone?
Northwestern may be the Ivy of the Midwest, and it may be the smallest school in the Big Ten, but it is still just that—a Big Ten school with Big Ten athletics, and guess what, NU is not that bad. There’s lots to cheer about, if only you’re willing to look, and we’re here to bring that excitement to you.
If you have story ideas, or would like to contribute, send any of us an email. But your prized comments, those go below. Hit us with your best shot.
Here’s a little bit about who we are:
Kevin Fishbain only applied to Northwestern because he began cheering for the Wildcats at the age of 7 and refused to change allegiances.
Stephen Woldenberg has been a diehard Northwestern fan since birth, and although he attends a university with one of the best journalism programs in the U.S., Stephen’s major is history.
Abe Schwadron hails from the go-hard suburbs of Washington DC, and while he struggles between keeping it gangster and wearing purple, Abe thanks the lord he chose to come to NU, even if most students are still mixing up Juice Thompson, Juice Williams, and Orange Juice.
