gopherdudepart2
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Besides Troy Stoudimire are there any other seniors that had to put up with playing in the Metrodome?
How much of the roster has only experienced TCF bank stadium as there only home, it has to be about 95% of the football roster now. I ask not because I care about the dome but ridding ourselves completely
of the Metrodome spirit and it's ugly stain on our history of weird games and strange plays, even referee calls. Ron Johnson confirmed the part about the tractor pulls during recruiting visits.
Does anyone remember the Purdue game in overtime where the Gopher receiver caught the pass in bounds and the Big 10 officials ruled it out of bounds because his foot landed on the green part first instead of yellow part of the endzone turf, the space between the yellow painting that was still in bounds and the white out of bounds line. The worst part about that play was they the refs reviewed and could clearly see his foot landed in bounds, or in play and they still ruled the play out of bounds. Quite possibly one of the worst officiated games in the Metrodome, a call that truly turned the game and effected the outcome that I can ever remember.
Who knows how that season would have turned if we had beaten Purdue like we should have. To this day I despise Purdue football because of that game. Cheers to all those that worked so hard to getting out of the Metrodome.
Excorsizing out all Metrodome memory's, demons and gremlins will be worth it, there were a lot of bad losses in that dump that turned on weird plays.
How much of the roster has only experienced TCF bank stadium as there only home, it has to be about 95% of the football roster now. I ask not because I care about the dome but ridding ourselves completely
of the Metrodome spirit and it's ugly stain on our history of weird games and strange plays, even referee calls. Ron Johnson confirmed the part about the tractor pulls during recruiting visits.
Does anyone remember the Purdue game in overtime where the Gopher receiver caught the pass in bounds and the Big 10 officials ruled it out of bounds because his foot landed on the green part first instead of yellow part of the endzone turf, the space between the yellow painting that was still in bounds and the white out of bounds line. The worst part about that play was they the refs reviewed and could clearly see his foot landed in bounds, or in play and they still ruled the play out of bounds. Quite possibly one of the worst officiated games in the Metrodome, a call that truly turned the game and effected the outcome that I can ever remember.
Who knows how that season would have turned if we had beaten Purdue like we should have. To this day I despise Purdue football because of that game. Cheers to all those that worked so hard to getting out of the Metrodome.
Excorsizing out all Metrodome memory's, demons and gremlins will be worth it, there were a lot of bad losses in that dump that turned on weird plays.
