WE CAN'T SEEM TO GET THROUGH OKTOBERFEST WITHOUT SOME DAMAGE

This year it was overturned cars in the UW-La Crosse campus area.  A witness said there were 7 people involved.  The paper called them "HOOLIGANS".  I love that word and thought only Roger still used it but, apparently, the folks at the Tribune think it's a good word too.

The dictionary defines "HOOLIGAN" as a young man who does noisy or violent things as part of a gang.

Where did it come from?  I goes back to the 1800's in merry old England where an Irish bad boy named Patrick Hooligan raised hell in London town.

Here's a wild bunch of hooligans...