Fake typo brews bustle over Russel(l) Wilson billboards

Before the big game battle on the gridirion, the Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson was unknowingly in a battle of his own… on a billboard tug of war supposedly between his two alma maters.  Last week, a billboard was put up in North Carolina near one of Wilson’s alma mater’s, North Carolina State.  It appeared to be an ad done by the University of Wisconsin, where Wilson did graduate work and also played football…saying they were “proud to call him one of their own.”  His name was also misspelled, apparently intentionally, with Russell having only one “L”.  There is speculation that this was done just to garner more attention, and by all accounts, it did…even prompting someone else to put an ad on a different side of the same billboard, claiming Wilson as N.C. State alum and misspelling “Wizconsin.”  Wilson played for both North Carolina State and the University of Wisconsin. But not everyone believes these schools are responsible for the billboards, some are pointing the finger elsewhere.  For more on this story, click here.