Iceland12
Well-known member
- Joined
- Nov 12, 2008
- Messages
- 24,758
- Reaction score
- 2,421
- Points
- 113
This article is in response to their "Mount Rushmore" article. Here's how they put it:
LLast week we picked the four faces of Minnesota Golden Gopher Football's Mt Rushmore, with former coach and player Bernie Bierman winning the fourth spot with 44% of the vote. His inclusion, along with Bronko Nagurski, Bruce Smith, and Bobby Bell, make it four men from the "Glory Years" which culminated with the school's last Big Ten title back in 1967. Since then, Minnesota hasn't won much, but there's still been some very good players, most of whom you're probably much more familiar with than the guys we talked about last week who player fifty, sixty, or seventy years ago or more.
So today is about giving the modern era guys their due by picking the four best to wear Maroon and Gold since 1967. Since we're again limited by our polling options, we're not going to open the voting to all four spots- and really, we don't need to. There are two automatics that should be on everybody's list, so we're putting them on to start. But we'll give you the opportunity to choose the other two names, and to do it we'll steal an idea from the fine folks at The Daily Norseman- comment voting! We have nine candidates (NINE!), so we'll put each name in the comments section, and you vote for your favorite two by rec'ing said player name comment. It would be helpful if you'd just choose two, but hey, free country and all. The nine candidates coming up but first, the two guys who don't even need to put to a vote:
Eslinger and Carter are in and they list Barber, Decker, Hamilton, Maroney, Karon Riley, Setterstrom, Spaeth, Thompson and Weber
http://www.thedailygopher.com/2013/...football-the-4-best-players-of-the-modern-era
LLast week we picked the four faces of Minnesota Golden Gopher Football's Mt Rushmore, with former coach and player Bernie Bierman winning the fourth spot with 44% of the vote. His inclusion, along with Bronko Nagurski, Bruce Smith, and Bobby Bell, make it four men from the "Glory Years" which culminated with the school's last Big Ten title back in 1967. Since then, Minnesota hasn't won much, but there's still been some very good players, most of whom you're probably much more familiar with than the guys we talked about last week who player fifty, sixty, or seventy years ago or more.
So today is about giving the modern era guys their due by picking the four best to wear Maroon and Gold since 1967. Since we're again limited by our polling options, we're not going to open the voting to all four spots- and really, we don't need to. There are two automatics that should be on everybody's list, so we're putting them on to start. But we'll give you the opportunity to choose the other two names, and to do it we'll steal an idea from the fine folks at The Daily Norseman- comment voting! We have nine candidates (NINE!), so we'll put each name in the comments section, and you vote for your favorite two by rec'ing said player name comment. It would be helpful if you'd just choose two, but hey, free country and all. The nine candidates coming up but first, the two guys who don't even need to put to a vote:
Eslinger and Carter are in and they list Barber, Decker, Hamilton, Maroney, Karon Riley, Setterstrom, Spaeth, Thompson and Weber
http://www.thedailygopher.com/2013/...football-the-4-best-players-of-the-modern-era
