I'm sure you're aware of the national perception of our cuddly fly-over state: that Wisconsin is home to cows, cheese, overweight people dressed in Packers jerseys and sweatpants all the time and, of course, more cheese.

I take offense to this. Sure, there's lots of cheese and cows and I do typically wear sweats with my Javon Walker Sterling Sharp jersey, I'm not overweight.

But if we, as a state, want to change that perception, we have to try a little harder than this post on the Sconnie Nation* website.

*Rant: I've had a problem with Sconnie Nation since I first set foot on campus four years ago. In my first 18 years of living in Wisconsin I never once used the word "sconnie" or heard it used to describe a Wisconsinite. Never. Now these kids start a t-shirt company and starts this rumor that people from Wisconsin actually use the word to describe themselves and like it, which was bogus. All of a sudden students from out of state pick it up and run with it and you can't go a day on campus now without hearing the word. That and shortening the name of the state to "Wisco." Both piss me off to no end.

On the plus side, Sconnie Nation has come out with some pretty cool t-shirt designs lately.

Anyway, Sconnie Nation is the company behind those "We'll never forget you Brent" t-shirts with Favre's mug that you probably saw earlier this summer. It's been a hot seller for them. The shirt was such a popular design that they even broke down their sales in a blog post. The results do nothing to dispel the rumor that the vast majority of Wisconsinites are fat:

S: 6.6%

M: 9.9%

L: 29.7%

XL: 33%

XXL: 15.4%

XXXL: 5.2%

I'll save you the math; more than half the orders (53.6 percent) have been for sizes larger than large. So we are, in fact, fat. Then again, maybe people are just buying them big to wear over their blaze-orange hunting suit when they go to Packer games.

On that note, happy start to the Packer season. 

Predictions:

Packers 27, Bears 13

UW 31, Fresno State 20

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