Where’s Ted Lasso when we need him?

Ryan Field, home of the fighting Northwestern Wildcats, who have been making headlines for their “absolutely egregious and vile and inhumane” hazing. (Neil Steinberg/Sun-Times)

Northwestern went to the Rose Bowl in 1996. My strongest memory of that season is a co-worker, knowing that I’m an NU graduate, naively asking if I would be attending the big game in Pasadena.

“Well ...” I responded, amused that someone could imagine I might, “given that I never went to a football game in the four years I was a student there, it’s kinda late to start now.”