Gophers fans, you can spend Christmas with one current or former Gopher athlete or coach: Who are you choosing and why?

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Mo, for the uplift from his story and to get his thinking on his future. I think he may regard a coaching career as ultimately more important than the league.
 








I don’t think I would want to expose them to that level of awkwardness…

 





I ram into Murray Warmath at a retirement home many years ago.

It was later in life so the conversation was pretty simple, but fun (I’m a simple man so good for me). He was dressed head to toe in gopher gear (socks, hat…everything) and had gopher flags / stickers on his wheel chair.

My son used his chair as a gym to practice standing on, he loved it.

Absolutely what you would want in an old coach.
 

Coach Peebles - love his negotiation skills where he refused to play the game unless he could be the referee. Below is a write-up on one of the games from 1883 (BTW, we need to do what the basketball team did this year where they played St. Olaf to get revenge against the Ole's beating us -- I say we schedule Carleton in football so we can get even with those lousy Knights).

Upon arrival in Northfield, Minnesota for the first game of the year (1883), there was a dispute between the arriving players from Minnesota and the team representing Carleton College. Carleton insisted that a member of the faculty be allowed to play, and they also insisted on playing rugby style football. Coach Peebles preferred the soccer style of play,[2]: 4  but agreed to the conditions as long as he could act as the referee.[3]: 13  Carleton won the game 4–2.
 








Would have been Herb Brooks, but obviously that's impossible now. Chatted up Dave Winfield already. I suppose I'd go for Tony Dungy. Such an interesting, positive person. Might seem like a cop-out answer because he's such a big name, but I bet he's got some terrific stories to tell. Otherwise, gimme Jordan Leipold.
 

If the deceased count, give me Wooger all day. Can’t imagine not having a great time around him.
 

Gophers1992 said:
If the deceased count, give me Wooger all day. Can’t imagine not having a great time around him.
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Wooger was a good dude. Got to chat with him a couple times at Gopher hockey games and one time he stopped by to say hi to some of us gopher fans at the bar post game. Leopold is also a good guy and has some good stories.
 

UpAndUnder43 said:
Are you OK? I don’t think he attended the university of Minnesota.
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Kofi Annan was a graduate of Macalester College in St. Paul.

As for former Gophers, I'd like to have dinner with Mel Northway and ask him why he bothered to send me a mimeographed letter to play for the inaugural Inver Hills Junior College basketball team. I realize that every senior boy that was on a varsity basketball team in Dakota and Goodue Counties received the same letter, but I was terrible.
 


50PoundHead said:
Kofi Annan was a graduate of Macalester College in St. Paul.

As for former Gophers, I'd like to have dinner with Mel Northway and ask him why he bothered to send me a mimeographed letter to play for the inaugural Inver Hills Junior College basketball team. I realize that every senior boy that was on a varsity basketball team in Dakota and Goodue Counties received the same letter, but I was terrible.
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That reminds me of how I got a football recruiting letter from some college in California. I didn't even play high school football (played soccer).
 


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