Boilermakers/Badgers Preview: The Power Of Good Byes

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Published: October 28, 2009

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... Randall Stadium, ESPN2

When: Saturday, October 31, 11 AM CST.

I love the double bye.

I support the double bye.

I miss the double bye.

For anyone too young or for anyone too heavily engaged in the then-dominant stoner grunge scene to remember it clearly, the 1993 NFL season was the season of the double bye.  

For the first and only time, NFL teams (there were only 28 back then) played their 16 games over a period of 18 weeks, ensuring that each team had two bye weeks.

Also ensuring that NFL fans had an extra week to enjoy meaningful games.

But supposedly most teams found the double bye weeks too disruptive and the experiment, like The Golden Girls spin-off, ended after only one year.

But this year, the Wisconsin Badgers are bringing back the double byes, having just come off of one and also having another one over the Thanksgiving break before finishing the regular season at Haw...

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