Neighbors to east have right to be obnoxious

There are occasions when you will hear Minnesotans complain about obnoxious behavior from our eastern neighbors who are football fans of the Wisconsin Badgers and the Green Bay Packers.

I have an observation on this, although first there will be a performance review involving the major football teams from Wisconsin and Minnesota since the start of the previous decade in 2001.

PACKERS: They are 139-80-1 in regular-season games over the past 14 seasons, for a winning percentage of .634. The Packers have reached the playoffs 10 times in the previous 13 seasons, with a record of 8-9 and Super Bowl victory as a wild-card team after the 2010 season. They have a record of 19-10-1 against the Vikings, including a split of a pair of playoff games.

VIKINGS: They are 102-117-1 in regular-season games over the past 14 seasons, for a winning percentage of .466. The Vikings have reached the playoffs four times in the previous 13 seasons, with a record of 2-4. They have swept the two-game regular-season series vs. Packers twice in that time, and have been swept six times, including this season.

BADGERS: Wisconsin has a record of 70-42 (.625) in Big Ten regular-season games over the past 14 seasons. The Big Ten went to divisional play with a conference championship game in 2011, and the Badgers will be playing in it for the third time in four years on Saturday against Ohio State. Wisconsin won its previous two appearances vs. Michigan State and Nebraska.

Wisconsin has played in three Rose Bowls and three Capital One Bowls since 2001. The Capital One was right behind the four BCS games in pecking order for Big Ten teams before the new bowl system started with the College Football Playoff this season.

The Badgers have a 12-2 record vs. the Gophers since 2001, including a current winning streak that reached 11 with Saturday's 34-24 victory in Camp Randall Stadium.

The Gophers have been above .500 in Big Ten play twice (2003, 2014) in 14 years, compared to nine times for the Badgers.

Wisconsin's ongoing 11-game winning streak is the longest for either school in this ancient series by two games. The Gophers of Bernie Bierman won nine in a row from 1933 through 1941.

So, following the review of what has taken place in this century with Wisconsin's teams, the Packers and the Badgers, as compared to what has taken place with Minnesota's teams, the Vikings and the Gophers, here's the question: