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The Packers are a unique beast as far as pro teams go. They're the closest thing to college football that the NFL (or any major sport) has. -Small town known specifically for this -Draws support from a wide area (statewide) -Generational fan base going back to the 1920s -(and this is important)...

Enjoy your pancake breakfast. :ROFLMAO:

The Washburn-Mcreavy crowd.

You described it perfectly. While I have brought my kid to a few NFL games, I absolutely understand why people would not.

I think quite honestly, a big part of it too is people want to be outside, doing things, rather than watching a game for four hours, when the weather is nice in the late summer/fall, and there are more things to do outdoors here than in say, Iowa City or Lincoln.

The difference between the Vikings and every other professional and college team in town (and this is somewhat true for the NFL as a whole) is that they've made the games into an event or a party. It's always been that way to some extent, but it really ramped up in the Randy Moss era, when the...

Because as mentioned before, the MSHSL requires a certain number in a class to have a tournament.

Herein lies the problem, and why 6A and district scheduling came to be, if I recall. The biggest schools, (EP, Wayzata, Tonka, but mostly at the time EP) had a hard time scheduling teams. The example I always use was EP scheduling a home and home with a team from Winnipeg.

T'aint necessarily an eagle.

It used to be the other Big 10.

Oddly enough, I feel the opposite. I love the college game because there's a lot more differentiation between teams and styles. I still enjoy the NFL, but the parity has made the product a lot more homogenous.

I'm surprised more northern tier schools haven't cut baseball like Wisconsin and North Dakota have.

It's both. He's one of those idiots who just can't keep politics off the board.

30 years ago Concordia - Moorhead had some kind of similar rule I think. I knew a couple who got married when they were in college there so they could live together. Meanwhile, across the street at MSUM, my GF, now my wife of 30 years, and I lived together in an apartment, clearly living in SIN!

Hastings is the county seat of Dakota County and they always played teams like Sibley and Park and other semi-big metro schools in that part of the metro.

I would have always considered the 7 county area as metro and STMA, Elk River and Buffalo would not fall under that definition, even if they play in conferences with other metro area schools. Back in the days when people had landlines and had to pay for long distance vs. local calls, I grew up...

I'm sure you walked barefoot uphill both ways as well.

I think that horse left the stable a long, long time ago.

Don't get me started...

At least they're marginally closer to Moorhead?