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and those two flagrant roughing the passer calls the Vikings did not get, for which the NFL apologized the next week. Plus, Greg Williams, the disgraced DC of the Saints, came out the week before and said that the Saints wanted to "get" Brett Favre, not just "get after" him. The NFL had nothing...

I think a lot of us knew that Illinois is improving and that the Gophers have never beaten Bielema but didn't want to accept the awful possibility of an upset and its many impactful implications. I guess "denial" would be the operative word. I think it's still in play among those who see the...

And that was at sea level! What will happen if they play in Laramie, Ft. Collins or Albuquerque?

I, too, love baseball and have done so since I was a boy in the 1950s. The version that is played today can be off-putting but I am always ready to go out to the ballpark when spring comes along. I guess I'm in for the duration, as with the Gophers.

I agree, but the same concept is often in play even when the officials are not involved. For example, in "baseball" (if the mention of the word diminishes your interest, thanks for sticking with me), suppose threre is a guy on 1st with one out. He tries to steal 2nd but is thrown out. The next...

In the first half of yesterday's game, a Gopher ball-carrier was dragged out of bounds and then thrown down. No flag was thrown. A GH poster implied after the game that the non-call didn't really matter because the drive fizzled anyway. I would say that we can't know how the drive would have...

I'm 71 years old. Been on the same journey. Feels like a death march today.

Anyone ever attended one of his legendary memorabilia yard sales? I once saw a video with him sitting at a card table with a cash box and occasionally getting up to monitor browsers. He is the quintessential Minnesota anticelebrity!

I believe they have natural grass in Evanston, grown long. In bad weather, an inferior team at Ryan has a "puncher's chance".

Highwayman- #3 resonates most with me. It was absurd when games that ended 17-17 in regulation turned out to have final scores in the 40s. In these cases, the kind of game it actually was is totally obscured, plus all those touchdowns scored on short fields count in the school record books. To...

The Gophers have shown that they will throw 25+ passes in games in which they can't just run over an opponent (OSU & Nebraska). I'm sure they'll show more balance when they are required to do so by Iowa and/or Wisconsin.

Going to New England to reprise our honeymoon of 32 years ago. Not sure if she knows the bye week was part of the trip's timing. Be back for Nebraska!

A guy down the street is a big USC fan (I live in San Diego). He has a huge USC flag hanging in the front yard. I walked by on Sunday and saw him doing yard work but did not see the flag. When I asked him about it, he said the Trojans had lost at home to Oregon State on Saturday. I asked him if...

Thank you for correcting me. Friday night to Saturday afternoon.

Exactly. The Gophers got beat by an inferior Michigan State team at home one week (6 days actually) after that Michigan melt down. I heard someone say that the Gophers, in effect, let Michigan beat them twice. Can't have that happen again. Hopefully Autman-Bell can play and the Gophers make some...

1956 was my intro to Gopher fandom as a 6-year old. There was a lot of hubbub going on about something called "The Rose Bowl". Evidently the Gophers had a chance to go there and they had never been previously. Even the nuns at school talked about the Gophers (sturdy German ladies from the St...

He mentioned that he hoped to be red-shirted in 2007 so he could bulk up some. He knew he was undersized at that time. But the season went south so dramarically that he was asked to play and did so all through that death march.

This spring we were in Grand Teton and stopped in at this western bar in Jackson Hole. I was wearing a Gopher hat and this guy came up and sat down next to my wife and me. We got to talking about Minnesota and after a while he mentioned that he had played for the Gophers and had 9 interceptions...

Yup- watching the Gophers with my dad was the best thing we did together and specific games we saw or listened to on the radio still resonate with me. When I was 6 years old in 1956 we listened to the Gophers play a bad Wisconsin team and settle for a 13-13 tie in Madison. We felt better when my...

Thank you for the correction. Yes, Hook came to mind right away for me as well and then I saw his name at the bottom of your post. You would be fun to have a beer with so we could talk about other games we saw 60 years ago! I ran into Kyle Theret, of all people, at a bar in Jackson, Wyoming in...