Will someone tell Jim Nantz....

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...that we're the "Gopher State"......not the North Star State.
 



According to the book "Minnesota" by Ann Heinrichs, Minnesota has no official nickname, but many unofficial ones.

Minnesota
 





It was refreshing to hear 660 AM use a classic

"From The Land Of Sky Blue Waters", WBHR.
 

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Ummm....When I posted this it was purely tongue-in-cheek. Isn't this a Gopher website? Didn't think folks would take it literally. I'm well-aware that Minnesota is the "North Star State."
 

how about this

A suit that fits. Maybe a hair cut. The guy looks like he went to Goodwill for the rags.
 

CP Gopher said:
Ummm....When I posted this it was purely tongue-in-cheek. Isn't this a Gopher website? Didn't think folks would take it literally. I'm well-aware that Minnesota is the "North Star State."
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Might want to add a ;) or something next time.

:)
 



CP Gopher said:
...that we're the "Gopher State"......not the North Star State.
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I heard the Jim Nance interview on 'CCO radio yesterday morning. It was an excellent interview, with the entire state of Minnesota receiving lots of well-deserved props.
Sid Hartman also had props heaped upon him, with Nance including Sid in the top echelon of American civic/sports journalism figures of the past 1/2 century. Jim Murray from L.A. and Edwin Pope from Miami were the others.

Nance is a class act through and through. He cast the entire state of Minnesota, Hazeltine, and we the fans in only the most positive light.

I am curious whether a Sid-less Twin Cities radio station could have had Jim Nance on their program as a guest the morning of a Grand Slam Final round...I doubt it.

Your original post on this thread was and is way off base, and wrong to boot!!
 


ConferenceChamp said:
I heard the Jim Nance interview on 'CCO radio yesterday morning. It was an excellent interview, with the entire state of Minnesota receiving lots of well-deserved props.
Sid Hartman also had props heaped upon him, with Nance including Sid in the top echelon of American civic/sports journalism figures of the past 1/2 century. Jim Murray from L.A. and Edwin Pope from Miami were the others.

Nance is a class act through and through. He cast the entire state of Minnesota, Hazeltine, and we the fans in only the most positive light.

I am curious whether a Sid-less Twin Cities radio station could have had Jim Nance on their program as a guest the morning of a Grand Slam Final round...I doubt it.

Your original post on this thread was and is way off base, and wrong to boot!!
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First, it's Jim Nantz.

Second, yes, they could easily get him on without Sid. He's a CBS guy. 'CCO is a flagship CBS station. Why in the world wouldn't they be able to get him. Sid should get all the props he deserves but give me a break on this one.
 

ColNathanJessup said:
First, it's Jim Nantz.

Second, yes, they could easily get him on without Sid. He's a CBS guy. 'CCO is a flagship CBS station. Why in the world wouldn't they be able to get him. Sid should get all the props he deserves but give me a break on this one.
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swell post, Jessup :rolleyes:


Like NO OTHER, Sid has drawn the sports figure heavyweights onto his 830AM radio program for decades, and what does he get around here, especially on these boards? Not much, but derision and mockery.

Ripping on Sid seems to be the favorite pastime of so many. It's one of the more common themes on the 'Hole.:rolleyes:
 

Maybe Sid shouldn't have been so instrumental in moving this football program into that awful blue bubble downtown.
 

ConferenceChamp said:
swell post, Jessup :rolleyes:


Like NO OTHER, Sid has drawn the sports figure heavyweights onto his 830AM radio program for decades, and what does he get around here, especially on these boards? Not much, but derision and mockery.

Ripping on Sid seems to be the favorite pastime of so many. It's one of the more common themes on the 'Hole.:rolleyes:
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Where did I rip on Sid? I guess you missed the part where I said, "give Sid all the props he deserves." Or maybe you don't know what "props" means, I don't know. I was ripping on you for thinking only Sid would be able to land an interview with the almighty Jim Nantz.

Sid's accomplished great things. Maybe more than I ever will but, jeez, one of the largest CBS stations in the country couldn't land the lead commentator for a CBS broadcast (the PGA was on CBS) without Sid pulling strings? Nobody can believe that right?

Just as some ride him too much negatively, some of you act like the Minneapolis sports scene would cease to exist if he weren't here.
 

CP Gopher said:
Maybe Sid shouldn't have been so instrumental in moving this football program into that awful blue bubble downtown.
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I haven't been on these boards as long as some, but you do know that old Memorial Stadium was basically condemned in 1981. It had been allowed to deteriorate to a point where it no longer was close to "meeting code." Multiple millions of dollars in renovations were necessary. And as you may know, there was a recession in 1981-'82 which comes close to rivaling the severity of the recession we have been in since December, 2007.

However, Paul Giel, the University's AD at the time, had no money to bring it back up to code. I mean, not one penny for facilities upgrades. What was he supposed to do? Why was Sid such a bad guy for stating the obvious?

Play in an old, crumbling, deteriorated structure? Or go a couple of miles across 35W to a brand new state-of-the-art indoor facility? And to top it off, the Dome was offered to the U rent-free?

There really wasn't much of a decision to make, especially during a recessionary time when budget deficits were as prevalent back then as they are today.
 


The reason there wasn't any money for rennovation was that the U was being used as a bargaining chip to keep the Vikings in town. The U may technically not have had to pay rent to use the dome, but it was still a bad deal - we kept little of the revenue.

I wish that he said "no thanks" and stayed in Memorial Stadium. That rennovation may have seemed expensive at the time, but it was a bargain compared to building a new stadium. We could have played there for a couple more years, that recession, after all, didn't last forever. But it's likely the U would have been forced out of Memorial anyway to provide another revenue stream for the Vikings.
 

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