This is going to hurt quite a bit, Badgers fans. But there’s a new sheriff in town, and it’s going to be a lot harder for you to get insanely drunk before heading into a Wisconsin football game from now on. Thanks to the new “Show and Blow” policy — a double-entendre for the ages, by the way — all students who have been ejected or cited for drinking at a Badgers game will have to blow a clean .000 before being allowed into Camp Randall. (Hat tip to Stu, who saw this in Sports by Brooks originally). From the Daily Cardinal out of Madison:

Badger football game days may be synonymous with tailgating, but a new “Show and Blow” program through the Offices of the Dean of Students may end some students’ early-morning drinking parties. The program, which will launch at Saturday night’s Big Ten opener against Iowa, requires students with a previous ejection or citation at a football game to blow into a Portable Breathalyzer Test before the game to prove their sobriety. “This will be for very specific students who at previous games pass through the police center [at Camp Randall], and if students were issued an underage alcohol citation, they would have to come and blow a .000,” said Kevin Helmkamp, an associate dean in the Office of the Dean of Students, who expects the PBTs to be administered at the student entrance. … UW Police Lt. Bill Larson said UWPD has planned for high numbers of citations this Saturday by asking other agencies for extra help. “That game will be busier just because it is a night game and people will be more intoxicated,” he said. He said police are able to issue citations based on behavior. “If somebody is stumbling up the stairs, they are vomiting on the concourse—those are the ones we end up citing,” Larson said.

We have a prediction on how this will go: not well. Does anyone else have a thought on the matter, which seems to have quite a bit of practical merit but could turn into one huge cluster[redacted] on Saturday night?

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