It's not Badgers/Gopghers "Paul Bunyan's Axe", nor is it Florida/Georgia "World's Largest Cocktail Party". Welcome to the first annual "Rumble On The River" between the Dubuque Bruisers and the River City Rough Riders.

Although these teams have played each other for the last four years (each team winning two games), the owners thought it was time to spice things up.

Winner goes home with not only bragging rights until this Rumble is renewed in 2013, but they also go bring the trophy home with them.

This is a first, so the Rough Riders don't plan on letting those boys from Iowa take it home with them. Not going to happen.

Kickoff is Saturday May 19th @3pm @UWL stadium.

"One team, One Mission, One Goal"

Injuries, bad decision making and just poor play kept the Rough Riders from going 2-0 as they lose to the Eau Claire Crush 13-6. The Rough Riders started

The game started out promising for the Rough Riders after a three and out by the defense, on the first offensive play River City's Phillip Ditto completed a 50 yard reception to Julius Shelton that got the down to the 3 yard line. Three plays later, Karl Hoffman completed a two pass to Ditto that made the score 6-0. Extra point was block.

All the scoring from that point came from the Crush. First was a first quarter TD pass to tight end Chris Haynes. Extra point was good. The second score came in the fourth quarter on a four yard run from Running back Bobby Brown.

There was'n't too many positives that came from this game. From a owners  standpoint I'm very disappointed in the way that our guys handled themselves out there. There were plenty of bad calls and some questionable football being played that led to some key injuries. Instead of using this to motivate our team, we fed into it and that is not the way I want this program to conduct themselves.

Chalk this game up as a bad experience and WE WILL MOVE FORWARD!!!!

Rough Riders will play the Lake Superior Rage next on May 12th @7pm at  UWL.