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Per Scott:
On the east bank of the Mississippi River in the neighborhood of Dinkytown, the University of Minnesota feels much the same on a football game day as many other Big Ten campuses.
But on the edge of December, one cannot forget that Minnesotans use a different thermometer than their counterparts across college football. For those unfamiliar with the Upper Midwest, a stiff northern wind first bites your nose, then freezes your soul. Here, it’s winter. Elsewhere, it’s torture.
On Saturday, before the Gophers hosted rival Wisconsin for Paul Bunyan’s Axe, fans braved a wind chill that dropped below 10 degrees, but nary a complaint was heard. The front yards outside the fraternity houses along University Avenue featured a live DJ, table games and perhaps 100 students who shrugged off the elements as though it were 50 degrees warmer.
Perpendicular to an alley that separates Chi Omega from Kappa Sigma and just west of Williams Arena, the Golden Gophers’ basketball home, also known as The Barn, a group of former Minnesota football players set up their tailgate six hours before kickoff.
www.nytimes.com
Go Gophers!!
On the east bank of the Mississippi River in the neighborhood of Dinkytown, the University of Minnesota feels much the same on a football game day as many other Big Ten campuses.
But on the edge of December, one cannot forget that Minnesotans use a different thermometer than their counterparts across college football. For those unfamiliar with the Upper Midwest, a stiff northern wind first bites your nose, then freezes your soul. Here, it’s winter. Elsewhere, it’s torture.
On Saturday, before the Gophers hosted rival Wisconsin for Paul Bunyan’s Axe, fans braved a wind chill that dropped below 10 degrees, but nary a complaint was heard. The front yards outside the fraternity houses along University Avenue featured a live DJ, table games and perhaps 100 students who shrugged off the elements as though it were 50 degrees warmer.
Perpendicular to an alley that separates Chi Omega from Kappa Sigma and just west of Williams Arena, the Golden Gophers’ basketball home, also known as The Barn, a group of former Minnesota football players set up their tailgate six hours before kickoff.
The art of cold-weather college football tailgating: Alaskan halibut, cardboard and ‘ingenuity’
Minnesotans use a different thermometer than their counterparts across college football.
www.nytimes.com
Go Gophers!!
