The Gazette: Ranking Big Ten’s most-tortured football fans (Gophers fans #2)

[BleedGopher]

per The Gazette - Hoosier fans are #1:

2. Minnesota

The Gophers got to a bowl last season, though it was the Meineke Car Care Bowl of Texas.

That’s the good news. The bad news is they haven’t been to a Rose Bowl since 1961 and haven’t shared a Big Ten title since 1967.

Minnesota hasn’t been to a good bowl since Hubert Humphrey was vice president.

The Gophers went to the Music City Bowl in 2002, 2004 and 2005. They went to the Insight Bowl in 2006, 2008 and 2009. That’s why the Big Ten has shaken up its way of doing business with the bowls, to ensure the same team doesn’t keep going to the same bowl.

Jerry Kill’s program is improving. Like I said, they went to a bowl last year. But in a pro market, Gopher football fans don’t feel significant. They do feel tormented.

Kill recently got perhaps his best recruit since he arrived at Minnesota when center Connor Mayes of Texas committed to the Gophers. The trick is to keep that commitment solid for the next eight months.

http://thegazette.com/2013/06/25/ranking-big-tens-most-tortured-football-fans/

Go Gophers!!

 

[Parski1]

Last time we had a chance at a really good Bowl....Michigan killed the season in one quarter.

 

[MNGoldenGophers1]

Painfully true.

 

[ruppertflywheel]

The " Michigan " game. An exclamation point to 50 plus years of frustration. Has to go down as the
worst Gopher sports kick in the lowers of all time.

 

[highwayman]

Minnesota hasn’t been to a good bowl since Hubert Humphrey was vice president.

An interesting quote, but the U didn't go to any bowls while HHH was Veep (1965-1969).

 

[bemidjigopher]

I would say in this day and age the Sun Bowl is a decent bowl not great, but certainly a respectable one

 

[Grant]

Minnesota and Indiana have been absolutely terrible programs for decades and decades. I like our chances to get out of the crap pile sooner but it won't be easy for either school.

 

[RodentRampage]

Minnesota and Indiana have been absolutely terrible programs for decades and decades. I like our chances to get out of the crap pile sooner but it won't be easy for either school.

The Gophers haven't been really good, but it's just not true that the Gophers have been terrible for decades. They just haven't risen above the middle of the pack.