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Hilarious/pathetic how Gopher fans view a "Junior Varsity" team, as so many of you call NDSU. Bet there's plenty here like me who are diehard Gopher fans and Bison fans (played for them in the 80s). I cheer for all teams with lots of Minnesotans on the roster...Mankato State, Minny-Duluth, St. Thomas, St Johns....U of M and NDSU. Did the Bison choke at home on Saturday? Absolutely. Why Gopher fans choose to revel in this is beyond ridiculous. Why are we Gopher fans threatened by pathetic little ndsu, a "junior varsity" team? Go Gophers! Ski-u-mah! See how easy that is to support all kinds of teams with Minny players on their roster?
 

DCinOK said:
Hilarious/pathetic how Gopher fans view a "Junior Varsity" team, as so many of you call NDSU. Bet there's plenty here like me who are diehard Gopher fans and Bison fans (played for them in the 80s). I cheer for all teams with lots of Minnesotans on the roster...Mankato State, Minny-Duluth, St. Thomas, St Johns....U of M and NDSU. Did the Bison choke at home on Saturday? Absolutely. Why Gopher fans choose to revel in this is beyond ridiculous. Why are we Gopher fans threatened by pathetic little ndsu, a "junior varsity" team? Go Gophers! Ski-u-mah! See how easy that is to support all kinds of teams with Minny players on their roster?
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Nobody from here would EVER refer to this state as "Minny." This is some ridiculous term started by Canadian hockey commentators.
 

disco said:
Nobody from here would EVER refer to this state as "Minny." This is some ridiculous term started by Canadian hockey commentators.
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Not the state, but the city of Minneapolis.

I first heard of Minneapple when Minneapolis ran an ad campaign in the 80’s trying to differentiate itself from St. Paul and the Twin Cities nickname.

At some point it evolved to Mini-Apple and is also used for arts and events calendars and the
Mini-Apple Night of Miles run hosted by the Run Minnesota club.

So, now you know that Minneapolis embraces the Mini or Minny moniker.
 

WAGopher said:
Not the state, but the city of Minneapolis.

I first heard of Minneapple when Minneapolis ran an ad campaign in the 80’s trying to differentiate itself from St. Paul and the Twin Cities nickname.

At some point it evolved to Mini-Apple and is also used for arts and events calendars and the
Mini-Apple Night of Miles run hosted by the Run Minnesota club.

So, now you know that Minneapolis embraces the Mini or Minny moniker.
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Still never heard anyone from Minnesota or Minneapolis refer to either as Minny and I've lived here my entire life.
 

DCinOK said:
Hilarious/pathetic how Gopher fans view a "Junior Varsity" team, as so many of you call NDSU. Bet there's plenty here like me who are diehard Gopher fans and Bison fans (played for them in the 80s). I cheer for all teams with lots of Minnesotans on the roster...Mankato State, Minny-Duluth, St. Thomas, St Johns....U of M and NDSU. Did the Bison choke at home on Saturday? Absolutely. Why Gopher fans choose to revel in this is beyond ridiculous. Why are we Gopher fans threatened by pathetic little ndsu, a "junior varsity" team? Go Gophers! Ski-u-mah! See how easy that is to support all kinds of teams with Minny players on their roster?
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Nothing against the team/players. It's just due to their fans.
 


WAGopher said:
Not the state, but the city of Minneapolis.

I first heard of Minneapple when Minneapolis ran an ad campaign in the 80’s trying to differentiate itself from St. Paul and the Twin Cities nickname.

At some point it evolved to Mini-Apple and is also used for arts and events calendars and the
Mini-Apple Night of Miles run hosted by the Run Minnesota club.

So, now you know that Minneapolis embraces the Mini or Minny moniker.
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I remember the Minneapple campaign. It was a parody of a famous New Yorker cover.

But that has nothing to do with people today referring to the state as Minny. Literally the first person I ever heard say that was Barry Melrose on an NHL broadcast. It's an absolute red flag that someone is not from here. Like people from SF would never call it "Frisco."
 

swede2 said:
I don't know if Mo St was picked by C-USA due to size and geography? The school had been posturing for FBS for a long time even though the FB program was generally average at best and usually poor.

Sac St wrote the blue print on how to really muck things up. It's almost as if they thought being without a conference would make them more attractive. The stadium thing no one ever believed would happen. Admin at Sac St needs to be held accountable from the governing body all the way down to the AD, the president especially.

Cal Davis is a huge school with a big endowment. When the all-but-FB sports announced a move to MWC, it had to be assumed FB wouldn't be far behind. They just recently announced major facility upgrades, including to the FB stadium. Davis is California's ag campus and enjoys a lot of support.
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I played against Cal Davis back in the day ag is right. It was like driving through Iowa on the way from the airport to the campus.
 

DCinOK said:
Hilarious/pathetic how Gopher fans view a "Junior Varsity" team, as so many of you call NDSU. Bet there's plenty here like me who are diehard Gopher fans and Bison fans (played for them in the 80s). I cheer for all teams with lots of Minnesotans on the roster...Mankato State, Minny-Duluth, St. Thomas, St Johns....U of M and NDSU. Did the Bison choke at home on Saturday? Absolutely. Why Gopher fans choose to revel in this is beyond ridiculous. Why are we Gopher fans threatened by pathetic little ndsu, a "junior varsity" team? Go Gophers! Ski-u-mah! See how easy that is to support all kinds of teams with Minny players on their roster?
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That's wonderful if that works for you, but why are you chiding Gophers fans about being Gophers fans on a Gophers fan message board?

I am a Gophers football fan, 2x alumnus, and former employee of the University of Minnesota. I care deeply about the University of Minnesota and its athletes. Why am I supposed to care about HS football players who happen to live and play in the same state? If they choose not to play for the University of Minnesota (or are not good enough to play for the University of Minnesota), why am I supposed to care about them? I could not give a fuck less about them or what happens to them. They are dead to me.

Bet there's plenty here like me who are diehard Gophers fans and want to see the Bison fail miserably at everything they do.
 

DCinOK said:
Hilarious/pathetic how Gopher fans view a "Junior Varsity" team, as so many of you call NDSU. Bet there's plenty here like me who are diehard Gopher fans and Bison fans (played for them in the 80s). I cheer for all teams with lots of Minnesotans on the roster...Mankato State, Minny-Duluth, St. Thomas, St Johns....U of M and NDSU. Did the Bison choke at home on Saturday? Absolutely. Why Gopher fans choose to revel in this is beyond ridiculous. Why are we Gopher fans threatened by pathetic little ndsu, a "junior varsity" team? Go Gophers! Ski-u-mah! See how easy that is to support all kinds of teams with Minny players on their roster?
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Bison fans soured me from supporting the bison. They beat a 1-11 team and a 3-9 team and act like they'd beat MN in perpetuity. I've seen bison fans say they're nervous about going to FBS because it might be a few years before they'd win another championship, suggestions that the FBS champ should play FCS champ, and host of other delusion. They cant sell out fargodome but I've also seen them suggest they should have a neutral site game at US BANK stadium but they think gophers wont allow it as they'd outdraw the gophers......

On one hand, I wouldn't mind playing them every few years, but on the other I don't want to fuel Bison fans that think we're some sort of rivals.

I didn't even know NDSU lost until I saw it on social media of Redbirds going for 2 late after NDSU choked and if it wern't for that, I never would've known
 



salzie said:
Bison fans soured me from supporting the bison. They beat a 1-11 team and a 3-9 team and act like they'd beat MN in perpetuity. I've seen bison fans say they're nervous about going to FBS because it might be a few years before they'd win another championship, suggestions that the FBS champ should play FCS champ, and host of other delusion. They cant sell out fargodome but I've also seen them suggest they should have a neutral site game at US BANK stadium but they think gophers wont allow it as they'd outdraw the gophers......

On one hand, I wouldn't mind playing them every few years, but on the other I don't want to fuel Bison fans that think we're some sort of rivals.

I didn't even know NDSU lost until I saw it on social media of Redbirds going for 2 late after NDSU choked and if it wern't for that, I never would've known
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I think a certain number of Bison fans are really, really isolated from the rest of the world. I've literally met these people.
 

disco said:
I think a certain number of Bison fans are really, really isolated from the rest of the world. I've literally met these people.
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How far off the beaten path did you have to venture to meet these isolated people? 😉
 


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