Few people remember that the Gopher football team won the rose bowl and the national championship the year before the vikqueens came to town. They haven’t been close since.

if you look @ the exterior renderings of the new twins stadium and squint really hard, you can see his influence.

But this is America. We’re allowed to do that.

By your third drink go ahead and talk about oh, I don’t know, your knowledge of the history of the Catholic Church based on your reading of The Da Vinci Code.

We’ll give you a break.

You ever hear people from the Midwest go: Hell, yeah! Midwest!

Let’s hear it for Corn!

Only Bob does that.

That’d be a stretch, Rat, considering what we now call “football” was primarily played on the quadrants of northern universities (e.g. Harvard) in the mid-19th century. The first organized inter-collegiate teams weren’t founded until 1873 … then, too, among only the Ivy League schools.