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Per Mike:
Floyd of Rosedale is a traveling trophy, but Floyd stays permanently halfway between Iowa City and Minneapolis.
That Floyd is a northern Iowa town of about 300 people in Floyd County, 8 miles from county seat Charles City. Floyd is 138 miles from the University of Iowa’s campus, 147 from the University of Minnesota’s.
Dozens of Minnesota Gopher fans will stop in Floyd Saturday morning on their way to Iowa City to the Minnesota-Iowa football game. Why? Because it has the same name as the bronzed, 98-pound trophy of a pig that goes to the winner of the rivalry contest.
The original Floyd of Rosedale hog was from Rosedale Farms outside Fort Dodge. It was named after Minnesota Gov. Floyd Bjornstjerne Olson. Floyd, Iowa, was named for Sgt. Charles Floyd, who died in 1804 on the Lewis and Clark Expedition, near what now is Sioux City.
Four years ago, 50 Gopher supporters stopped at Dugan’s Restaurant in Floyd to have lunch with Mayor Trevis O’Connell and other Floyd residents.
Since the Avenue of the Saints was completed, passing by Floyd is on the most-direct route from Iowa City to the Twin Cities. There’s not much to see in Floyd, but that doesn’t stop the group that calls itself the Travelin’ Gophers.
“We’ll maybe run in and have a beer at 10 in the morning,” said Steve Erban of Stillwater, Minn., who is an architect by profession. He and his wife, Dorothy, founded Creative Charters in 1993. They bus or fly Minnesota Gophers fans to all road football games.
Because of the cost of Iowa City-Coralville hotels on a Hawkeyes football weekend, the Travelin’ Gophers will make Saturday’s journey a one-day, up-and-back trip to keep costs down. They’re leaving Burnsville at 6:45 a.m. and plan to return at 11:45 p.m. A long day.
“We’re not ‘elite’ alumni,” Erban said. “But these are real people, real fans.
www.thegazette.com
Go Gophers!!
Floyd of Rosedale is a traveling trophy, but Floyd stays permanently halfway between Iowa City and Minneapolis.
That Floyd is a northern Iowa town of about 300 people in Floyd County, 8 miles from county seat Charles City. Floyd is 138 miles from the University of Iowa’s campus, 147 from the University of Minnesota’s.
Dozens of Minnesota Gopher fans will stop in Floyd Saturday morning on their way to Iowa City to the Minnesota-Iowa football game. Why? Because it has the same name as the bronzed, 98-pound trophy of a pig that goes to the winner of the rivalry contest.
The original Floyd of Rosedale hog was from Rosedale Farms outside Fort Dodge. It was named after Minnesota Gov. Floyd Bjornstjerne Olson. Floyd, Iowa, was named for Sgt. Charles Floyd, who died in 1804 on the Lewis and Clark Expedition, near what now is Sioux City.
Four years ago, 50 Gopher supporters stopped at Dugan’s Restaurant in Floyd to have lunch with Mayor Trevis O’Connell and other Floyd residents.
Since the Avenue of the Saints was completed, passing by Floyd is on the most-direct route from Iowa City to the Twin Cities. There’s not much to see in Floyd, but that doesn’t stop the group that calls itself the Travelin’ Gophers.
“We’ll maybe run in and have a beer at 10 in the morning,” said Steve Erban of Stillwater, Minn., who is an architect by profession. He and his wife, Dorothy, founded Creative Charters in 1993. They bus or fly Minnesota Gophers fans to all road football games.
Because of the cost of Iowa City-Coralville hotels on a Hawkeyes football weekend, the Travelin’ Gophers will make Saturday’s journey a one-day, up-and-back trip to keep costs down. They’re leaving Burnsville at 6:45 a.m. and plan to return at 11:45 p.m. A long day.
“We’re not ‘elite’ alumni,” Erban said. “But these are real people, real fans.
Where else to stop on the way to a Minnesota-Iowa footbal game but Floyd?
Dozens of Minnesota Gopher fans will stop in Floyd Saturday morning on their way to Iowa City to the Minnesota-Iowa football game. Why? Because it has the same name as the bronzed, 98-pound trophy of a pig that goes to the winner of the rivalry contest.
www.thegazette.com
Go Gophers!!
