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per STrib in article about Vikings honoring Sid with Sid Hartman Media Entrance at U.S. Bank Stadium:
Grant, who has known Hartman since the 1940s, said, “I’m the original Sid Hartman’s close personal friend.” He talked about Hartman’s dedication first and foremost to University of Minnesota sports (with the possible exception of women’s sports, Grant noted) and his unflagging integrity.
In a speech recounting their relationship over the years, Grant mixed humor and sentiment. He talked about meeting Hartman for the first time with the columnist pestering him at a basketball game about where he was going to go to college. “I said, ‘Sid, I’m in the Navy, we’ve got to win the war first,’” Grant recollected.
In 1946, when Grant was out of the service, he recalled walking with Hartman, new to the beat, into Cooke Hall, neither of them knowing where to go. Grant said they had nothing in common, but a life-changing friendship had begun.
Grant, a three-sport athlete for the Gophers, said money was tight for him and frequent dinners paid for by Sid at Cafe di Napoli on Hennepin Avenue got him through school. When his GI Bill money ran out two semesters shy of his degree, Grant said Hartman got him on the roster for the Minneapolis Lakers. “I became the first hardship case” in the NBA, Grant quipped.
Now with the media entrance in his honor, Hartman will always be a part of the community and the stadium, Grant said.
The entrance includes a Derek Gores mosaic of Hartman at the microphone for WCCO Radio as well wall-sized mural of reproduced newspaper clippings.
In the closing line of his comments, the famously stoic Grant cracked, saying, “As one man can love another, I love you Sid Hartman.”
http://www.startribune.com/minnesot...lumnist-sid-hartman-at-new-stadium/391069411/
Go Gophers!!
Grant, who has known Hartman since the 1940s, said, “I’m the original Sid Hartman’s close personal friend.” He talked about Hartman’s dedication first and foremost to University of Minnesota sports (with the possible exception of women’s sports, Grant noted) and his unflagging integrity.
In a speech recounting their relationship over the years, Grant mixed humor and sentiment. He talked about meeting Hartman for the first time with the columnist pestering him at a basketball game about where he was going to go to college. “I said, ‘Sid, I’m in the Navy, we’ve got to win the war first,’” Grant recollected.
In 1946, when Grant was out of the service, he recalled walking with Hartman, new to the beat, into Cooke Hall, neither of them knowing where to go. Grant said they had nothing in common, but a life-changing friendship had begun.
Grant, a three-sport athlete for the Gophers, said money was tight for him and frequent dinners paid for by Sid at Cafe di Napoli on Hennepin Avenue got him through school. When his GI Bill money ran out two semesters shy of his degree, Grant said Hartman got him on the roster for the Minneapolis Lakers. “I became the first hardship case” in the NBA, Grant quipped.
Now with the media entrance in his honor, Hartman will always be a part of the community and the stadium, Grant said.
The entrance includes a Derek Gores mosaic of Hartman at the microphone for WCCO Radio as well wall-sized mural of reproduced newspaper clippings.
In the closing line of his comments, the famously stoic Grant cracked, saying, “As one man can love another, I love you Sid Hartman.”
http://www.startribune.com/minnesot...lumnist-sid-hartman-at-new-stadium/391069411/
Go Gophers!!
