Minnesota Gopher Superfan Carves 20-Foot Paddle With Chainsaw (picture)

[BleedGopher]

per William:

If you drive down Highway 61 on Minnesota's North Shore, don't be alarmed if you come upon a massive 20-foot sculpture of a paddle. Gopher superfan Jon Benson carved it himself with a chainsaw. It stands outside his home in Schroeder, in view of Lake Superior.

Benson's creation was inspired by Coach P.J. Fleck's famous saying, "Row The Boat," the Gophers' historically-good season, and the Minnesota wilderness.

"I have been a huge Gopher fan for my entire life and I also love to canoe," Benson told Patch. "My career is based around the conservation of natural resources where I work with the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. When Coach Fleck came to Minnesota with his Row The Boat mantra I thought it was a great fit considering we have the BWCAW in Minnesota. "

Minnesota Gopher Superfan Carves 20-Foot Paddle With Chainsaw

Drivers can see the giant sculpture as they enter canoe country on Minnesota's North Shore.

patch.com

Go Gophers!!

 

[fmlizard]

Super well produced rap videos, weird totems...yeah we're starting to gin up some crazies now that there's some winning going on.

I'll know the turnaround is real once someone gets all but two of their teeth knocked out, grows a beard, and never trims their nails.

 

[RememberMurray]

Still blows me away, as a life-long Minnesotan, that people here in the Land of 10,000 Lakes don't know the difference between an oar and a canoe paddle.

I guess the young people these days are more into wake boarding behind a speed boat than canoeing. And I suppose real oars don't actually exist any more. Why would you need them? If the boat motor quits, just call for help on your phone.

God, I'm old... yikes.

 

[DoubleB]

Still blows me away, as a life-long Minnesotan, that people here in the Land of 10,000 Lakes don't know the difference between an oar and a canoe paddle.

I guess the young people these days are more into wake boarding behind a speed boat than canoeing. And I suppose real oars don't actually exist any more. Why would you need them? If the boat motor quits, just call for help on your phone.

God, I'm old... yikes.

Oars are kind of ugly and paddles are more fun get the same result of moving a water vessel in some direction
yes most people know the difference but are not that anal to point out the difference

and yes I am probably older than you are

 

[dpodoll68]

Still blows me away, as a life-long Minnesotan, that people here in the Land of 10,000 Lakes don't know the difference between an oar and a canoe paddle.

I guess the young people these days are more into wake boarding behind a speed boat than canoeing. And I suppose real oars don't actually exist any more. Why would you need them? If the boat motor quits, just call for help on your phone.

God, I'm old... yikes.

What does any of this have to do with the article at hand?

 

[RememberMurray]

What does any of this have to do with the article at hand?

Wow. You're really puzzled by this?

It's an article about a guy who carved something in response/tribute to "Row the Boat", and yet what he carved was a gi-normous canoe paddle — rather than an oar.

You row with a pair of oars. You paddle a canoe... with a paddle. You row a boat; you don't row a canoe.

The expression is "Row The Boat". Technically, you would need an oar (well, a pair of oars) to actually... well, row.

Hope that helps.

 

[dpodoll68]

Wow. You're really puzzled by this?

It's an article about a guy who carved something in response/tribute to "Row the Boat", and yet what he carved was a gi-normous canoe paddle — rather than an oar.

You row with a pair of oars. You paddle a canoe... with a paddle. You row a boat; you don't row a canoe.

The expression is "Row The Boat". Technically, you would need an oar (well, a pair of oars) to actually... well, row.

Hope that helps.

It literally says paddle in the title and he refers to it as a paddle throughout. It is, in fact, a paddle. Your "point" above is that so many people are "confused" about the difference between an oar and a paddle, and you said literally nothing about "row the boat." If that was the point you were attempting to make, you should have said so. Both the author and subject of the article are quite clear about what a paddle is, and no one is confused.

 

[RememberMurray]

Whatever.