Great Reusse column on his lifelong fandom of our Gophers!

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Pat turns 80 the night we host Nebraska, fun read here:

But Nebraska, the vile Cornhuskers who in one run won 16 in a row vs. the Gophers by a combined score of 632-128 (including 84-13), being here on Oct. 17, with P.J. Fleck having a chance to beat those former bullies for a sixth straight time …

What better way to celebrate an 80th birthday? I’m a homer for the day.

Now, all I have to do is make it that far.


Go Gophers!!
 




Very true...and all of us alive today have witnessed the pure essence of the Rose Bowl rendered irrelevant as we move forward.

Some might say the same about all of college athletics.
To be honest, I think the powers that be are going to push for having playoff games other than the championship all played at home venues, at some point in the future.

For now, the major bowl games are clinging to relevance as sites for the quarter and semi-finals.


Would love the Rose and one other (probably Sugar) to be permanent semi-final sites, but between what they're claiming is too much cost for fans to travel to multiple sites per year and the desire to maintain the bowl games on NYD, it probably won't happen.
 


Thanks for posting the article. People rag on Reusse, but even as he nears 80 he can still put pen-to-paper (or should that be fingers-to-keyboard) with the best of them. As he wrote in the article, he cut his teeth in an era when clubhouse reporters (especially columnists) could rip the team when they saw fit. Those days are just a speck in the rearview mirror now.
 

Thanks for posting the article. People rag on Reusse, but even as he nears 80 he can still put pen-to-paper (or should that be fingers-to-keyboard) with the best of them. As he wrote in the article, he cut his teeth in an era when clubhouse reporters (especially columnists) could rip the team when they saw fit. Those days are just a speck in the rearview mirror now.

Regarding the highlighted part of the quote:

Ummmmm... huh?!?

Columnists 'rip' teams all the time. Constantly. So do radio and TV people. Sometimes it seems that's all they do.
 

Looks like Fulda's finest couldn't quite cut it academically out of the gate. Probably a good thing looking back over his coming 80 years.

Good read and explains a lot. He has broken several Dink-O-Meters over the years but ran a new check for this article...

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Billds will be there that Friday night. Maybe Ole Patrick could be the game's "Do The Gopher" special guest...

Start working on it Mr. Fleck and Mr. Coyle...

Follow-up thought...more cheers than boos?
 
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Won’t be long and there will be no first hand historians of the Gophers in the Rose Bowl.
We’ve already lost almost everyone who was old enough to remember the three-peat of the mid 1930s. Soon we won’t have anyone who was alive during those times.

My dad is 78 and he was in college for the last Gopher Big Ten championship in 1967 when Minnesota, Indiana (his alma mater), and Purdue all were co-champs. Imagine that today!

Well, he kinda remembers it because I had to show him the Wikipedia about what really went down that year when each of the 3 teams beat each other but IU got the Rose Bowl on the longest since Pasadena tie breaker.

There’s still some time on the 60s Gopher teams
 



Regarding the highlighted part of the quote:

Ummmmm... huh?!?

Columnists 'rip' teams all the time. Constantly. So do radio and TV people. Sometimes it seems that's all they do.
I see very little ripping from the beat writers covering the teams or the team-affiliated broadcasters. Columnists are much milder than they were when Barreiro was ladling out his thoughts in print. It's different on the internet and the unaffiliated radio shows where basically discussion takes place at the barroom level.
 


PJ's showing a little banana in the article pic too...

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Guess we'll have to wait for full banana from the HC...
 

I see very little ripping from the beat writers covering the teams or the team-affiliated broadcasters. Columnists are much milder than they were when Barreiro was ladling out his thoughts in print. It's different on the internet and the unaffiliated radio shows where basically discussion takes place at the barroom level.
Today, the beat writers just transcribe quotes or the speakers thoughts from the press conferences. Everything they write was said in the press conferences.
They do very little slant or express thoughts of their own from inside observation or individual interviews. I don't think they get access to practice but infrequently...and then they each write the same thing because they just transcribe from their little huddle. And typically somebody records and posts the huddle questions.
Didn't used to be that way.
 



Has Patrick lost a little zest for life since his self-imposed Twitter ban?
 




Won’t be long and there will be no first hand historians of the Gophers in the Rose Bowl.
Still got my dad, thankfully, hale & hearty at 94 who went to his first game in 1940 (Washington) and saw the Pittsburgh game in 1941. His work responsibilities made it impossible for him to make the Rose Bowl trips. He comforted himself thinking it was only a matter of time before Minnesota returned to Pasadena.
 

Pats only been a part time fan so can’t claim to have been a lifelong fan. He’s spent far too much time bashing the gophers.
 



We’ve already lost almost everyone who was old enough to remember the three-peat of the mid 1930s. Soon we won’t have anyone who was alive during those times.

My dad is 78 and he was in college for the last Gopher Big Ten championship in 1967 when Minnesota, Indiana (his alma mater), and Purdue all were co-champs. Imagine that today!

Well, he kinda remembers it because I had to show him the Wikipedia about what really went down that year when each of the 3 teams beat each other but IU got the Rose Bowl on the longest since Pasadena tie breaker.

There’s still some time on the 60s Gopher teams
Oh, bless you. I am planning to hang on a bit longer, but I'm still pissed about that roughing penalty on Bobby Bell against the Badgers that cost us another Rose Bowl.
 

Still got my dad, thankfully, hale & hearty at 94 who went to his first game in 1940 (Washington) and saw the Pittsburgh game in 1941. His work responsibilities made it impossible for him to make the Rose Bowl trips. He comforted himself thinking it was only a matter of time before Minnesota returned to Pasadena.
No joke - that expectation probably contributed to his age accomplishment.
 


Thanks for posting the article. People rag on Reusse, but even as he nears 80 he can still put pen-to-paper (or should that be fingers-to-keyboard) with the best of them. As he wrote in the article, he cut his teeth in an era when clubhouse reporters (especially columnists) could rip the team when they saw fit. Those days are just a speck in the rearview mirror now.

I really enjoy Reusse in his later years. "Reusse unchained" is hilarious and he's got a fun sense of humor. Some local sports fans seem to just hate him because he's old - which is really shitty. I notice that mostly on youtube comment sections when he appears on SKOR north.
 



Yeah, I’m not gonna get too excited that FatPrick threw a bouquet our way for once.

It’s like me being happy that my wife didn’t beat me today, yet.

Congrats you have now cracked double digits on that derogatory pet nick name for Mr Reusse.

No...I hate him because he's an asshole.

And I don't like people who take joy in other people's pain.

So your solution to that is use multiple crass terms and be a fat shamer?

Pot. Kettle. Black.

The article in the original post is quite good with a bit of self-deprecation and humor. Quite representative of his fine work that I have followed going back to his days at the Pioneer Press.

When he's done at the StarTribune, I highly question if I will keep my subscription.
 


No...I hate him because he's an asshole.

And I don't like people who take joy in other people's pain.
Taking joy in other people's pain would be a terrible quality, indeed.

I'll keep my ears up, but I haven't noticed him do that. Was there some prominent injuries or firings that he reveled in? Assume positive intent from me please, I'm not being sarcastic or trying to bait you in any way.
 




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