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Why I think he's the best local writer around:
AARON LAVINSKY – STAR TRIBUNE
Gophers coach PJ Fleck celebrated with players during a team photo following their Outback Bowl victory against Auburn, part of a historic season.
CHIP SCOGGINS@CHIPSCOGGINS
Let us start here at the beginning with an exercise. Find a happy place. Picture your dream vacation destination.
See it? Hawaii perhaps. Or maybe some remote island with sugary white beaches and no shot at cell service.
You’ve saved up and waited forever for this getaway. Like, your entire life. Bags are packed. No work. No distractions. All you can see in your mind’s eye is paradise.
Sorry, vacation is canceled. Postponed actually. Maybe you’ll be able to go in seven months. But even that seems tenuous.
Pull up a chair. Fans of Gophers football are buying the first round.
What a kick in the pants for those patient souls. The Big Ten began playing football in 1896. Of all the seasons to be postponed by a global pandemic, it had to be this one?
The Gophers are coming off a historic season — one in which they won 11 games for the first time since 1904, finished with their highest ranking in the polls (No. 10) since 1962 and hosted “ESPN College GameDay” for the first time — sparking interest and enthusiasm, in this big-league market, not seen since the program’s heyday in the 1960s.
I feel bad for Gophers fans. I really do. The die-hards have lived through geezo-beezo; Nebraska 84, Gophers 13; Michigan ’03; 14 consecutive years Axe-less; Tim Brewster; a near boycott.
This fall in Dinkytown was supposed to be their version of Andy Dufresne’s prison escape in “Shawshank Redemption.” They crawled through 500 yards of foulness and came out the other side.
Then the world got turned upside down, and now Saturdays in the fall will be silent.
AARON LAVINSKY – STAR TRIBUNE
Gophers coach PJ Fleck celebrated with players during a team photo following their Outback Bowl victory against Auburn, part of a historic season.
CHIP SCOGGINS@CHIPSCOGGINS
Let us start here at the beginning with an exercise. Find a happy place. Picture your dream vacation destination.
See it? Hawaii perhaps. Or maybe some remote island with sugary white beaches and no shot at cell service.
You’ve saved up and waited forever for this getaway. Like, your entire life. Bags are packed. No work. No distractions. All you can see in your mind’s eye is paradise.
Sorry, vacation is canceled. Postponed actually. Maybe you’ll be able to go in seven months. But even that seems tenuous.
Pull up a chair. Fans of Gophers football are buying the first round.
What a kick in the pants for those patient souls. The Big Ten began playing football in 1896. Of all the seasons to be postponed by a global pandemic, it had to be this one?
The Gophers are coming off a historic season — one in which they won 11 games for the first time since 1904, finished with their highest ranking in the polls (No. 10) since 1962 and hosted “ESPN College GameDay” for the first time — sparking interest and enthusiasm, in this big-league market, not seen since the program’s heyday in the 1960s.
I feel bad for Gophers fans. I really do. The die-hards have lived through geezo-beezo; Nebraska 84, Gophers 13; Michigan ’03; 14 consecutive years Axe-less; Tim Brewster; a near boycott.
This fall in Dinkytown was supposed to be their version of Andy Dufresne’s prison escape in “Shawshank Redemption.” They crawled through 500 yards of foulness and came out the other side.
Then the world got turned upside down, and now Saturdays in the fall will be silent.