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Previous game posters:
Our last regular-season game poster features Goldy in the place of the protagonist of Dig Dug, blowing up Bucky Badger with an air pump as he leaves the top of the tunnel. There are two white flowers and one large red one to indicate that this is Game 12. The high score is 185100, referencing the year of the University of Minnesota's founding (1851).
I originally made a larger version of this, with a full game map, but the interesting part of the art was always Goldy and Bucky. So while I've generally tried to mimic what I'm parodying as closely as possible, I decided to crop the design for aesthetic purposes. I threw a bit of snow on the ground because of what time of year it is, but like with the Illinois poster, it doesn't appear we'll actually get any snow in the Twin Cities before Saturday.
One thing I thought as I was making this one is that, in a way, its tone resembles old college football paraphernalia, where the home team is depicted enacting some comic violence upon the mascot of the visitors. This would usually be on a button or program. Considering some of the content of those, it's probably best that we don't revive that era. But there's a humor to the genre as a whole, and I'm fine momentarily embracing that in a harmless way before a major rivalry game.
Next week... Well, there is no next week, most likely. Chandler probably will not be able to throw together a poster in time for the Big Ten Championship, should Minnesota somehow reach it. But for the bowl game? We'll see about that.
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