Gophers need to row harder

okeefe4prez said:
One of my guilty pleasures is watching NFL fan fight videos. There are some good videos out there of the Rams (post move), Chargers, Cowboys and 49ers fan fights. Not a lot of Norwegians or Danes fighting in those videos, bud.
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Things are bad all over, Ken.....

 
Xerxes said:
Yes it does look stupid. In Minnesota's defense, they change their jersey/helmet design all the time so at some point you run out of things to do and just adopt your coach's mantra as your helmet design. Next season will probably be a boat design. Gay pirate ship maybe???

Its times like these when I remind myself how lucky I am to be an Iowa fan. Yeah we have our bad moments as well but under Fry and Ferentz this shit would never fly. Iowa might have had some bad teams, but they've never completely lost respect for themselves like this.
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kicker22 said:
Just my two cents...

(1) At first glance I thought the oar looked like a beer bottle.

(2) what kind of idiot at the patent office gives a guy rights to "row the boat". Any chance a lucky hawk fan could get rights to "Fleck's a tool" or "Gophers suck". What an absolute moron.
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Thought the very same thing. Thought they were promoting a wheat-based microbrew to gain some revenue for the program.....

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Xerxes said:
The Gophers are just in a tough spot. Minneapolis is a pro sports town and the Gophers are way down the list in terms of popularity. And as you said, now even their hockey team isn't as good and they're not selling tickets.

Its crazy, they have one of the better college football stadiums in the nation in terms of comfort and its easy to get there but not a lot of people are willing to come out and see it.

This is where Iowa is lucky they don't have a pro sports team. Iowa football is always going to be king.

My concern for Iowa going forward is when are they going to remodel Kinnick to appeal to the changing fan? The "core" or "traditional" fan population is aging. Kinnick is going to need to be remodeled much like the new addition. Focus on comfort. Fewer but more comfortable seats and luxury boxes. Basically make it look like a huge sports bar.

Also need to focus more on the younger fan base. Where are they going to be able to place bets in Kinnick? They're going to need non-luxury lounges with good internet access, more variety in concessions, large screen tvs that display realtime fantasy results, etc.

The days of bench seats, pizza/hotdog/pretzel/soda concessions are gone. Barta are crew need to get ahead curve before its too late.
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I go for the energy. Watching at home on a 4K TV is always the more comfortable option, but I still go to games because of the energy. The surge you get from 70,000 screaming people all with 1 unified voice. Those are the devine moments that can only be experienced by attendance. It can only be felt. It simply can not be viewed.


For me, and I'm sure others there is more to watching football than just a love of the game or the love of team. There is almost a spiritual connection to the memories and the feeling being at the epicenter of a human gathering roaring with sheer determination and a singular will. That energy sent pulsating through the heavens. The Universe surely senses that we are here.
 
mopkins said:
I live in the twin cities and work on the fringe of Minneapolis and I can assure you those are all false stereotypes. Sure there are these ultra liberal hippie hangouts where they drink pabst blue ribbon and wear stocking hats during the summer, but it's not even close to the norm.
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Sorry, breh, I was there in December 2016. It was well below 0 and there was a sizable contingent marching in protest of Trump being elected.
 
ThunderHawk said:
I'm an off the charts cultural libertarian (cultural conservatives would consider me a liberal loon) and it ain't my ilk populating football games. Except when it comes to ETOH...then all of these God fearin' types are even further off the libtard charts than me, as I've never been stumble drunk on a gameday.

Also I actually know the words to the National Anthem in spite of my position that playing it at purely domestic sporting events is stupid as hell and borderline sacrilegeous.

I highly value my consistency and I strongly despise their hypocrisy. That's the bottom line. But I still like football game day, dumbass hypocritical conflicted rubes notwithstanding.

RE the twin cities, yeah, total wannabe town. Gave us Prince. Nothing else.
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You were fine at "stupid". "Borderline sacrilegious" was superfluous. I used to care about the knee-takers. Now I see ANY pre-game stuff as a waste of time.

Back in the 1980s there used to be this crap like, "And now, we send you out to the Budweiser kick-off". Then we started seeing, "And now, to the Advanced Car Center halftime show!"

It's all a waste of time. If they want the local scouts, National Guard, etc., to present colors, do it off camera, and between warm-up/re-entry by the teams. Same with people parachuting in. Give them the whole field to do it, and put out best effort, rather than having to work around the 100 guys on each side who really aren't into all that stuff because they are actually trying to get ready for a game.
 
okeefe4prez said:
Sorry, breh, I was there in December 2016. It was well below 0 and there was a sizable contingent marching in protest of Trump being elected.
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So a protest means all 3.2 million people in the twin cities are bernie sanders supporters? Um, no. Trust me, go to a Vikings game if you want to see the Trump crowd. Or go to South Saint Paul where my wife's from. Instead you stereotyped an entire city because you saw some people protesting. By that logic everyone in Charlottesville is a white supremacist
 
mopkins said:
Instead you stereotyped an entire city because you saw some people protesting.
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No, not just protesting, protesting in sub zero weather. You can claim that these unhinged lunatics are a minority, but three decades of electoral maps and the mayor of Minneapolis rolling around in a burka tell a different story. I commend you for seemingly to be able to stay away from these people despite living there, though.
 
okeefe4prez said:
No, not just protesting, protesting in sub zero weather. You can claim that these unhinged lunatics are a minority, but three decades of electoral maps and the mayor of Minneapolis rolling around in a burka tell a different story. I commend you for seemingly to be able to stay away from these people despite living there, though.
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Thats exactly my point...I've lived here over 8 years now and never seen any of that outside of very specific locations. You're seeing what you want to see.

PS - the mayor of minneapolis is Jacob Frey, a white male jew married to a woman. But hey man, keep believing what you gotta believe.
 
mopkins said:
PS - the mayor of minneapolis is Jacob Frey, a white male jew married to a woman. But hey man, keep believing what you gotta believe.
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Oh, that gal got voted out? I guess I should have qualified it with former mayor. About this woman the new mayor is married to, if ze were to take a blood test to identify gender, what would xer gender be?
 
okeefe4prez said:
No, not just protesting, protesting in sub zero weather. You can claim that these unhinged lunatics are a minority, but three decades of electoral maps and the mayor of Minneapolis rolling around in a burka tell a different story. I commend you for seemingly to be able to stay away from these people despite living there, though.
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Super Jesusy Ayn Randified Kansas and its rolling economic disaster say hi.

Meanwhile my city is run top to bottom by durrty stupid libtards and you have to meticulously route-plan to avoid all the new construction and infrastructure improvements. Such a declining shithole, it is.

Oh btw it's the areas painted deep red on the electoral map that are actually the declining meth-tweaking, opiod infested shitholes, at least in this state.

So your argument, as it were, is kind of beaten to death by...reality.
 
mopkins said:
So a protest means all 3.2 million people in the twin cities are bernie sanders supporters? Um, no. Trust me, go to a Vikings game if you want to see the Trump crowd. Or go to South Saint Paul where my wife's from. Instead you stereotyped an entire city because you saw some people protesting. By that logic everyone in Charlottesville is a white supremacist
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If you're looking for stupid white trash, an NFL stadium is a lead pipe lock.
 
ThunderHawk said:
Super Jesusy Ayn Randified Kansas and its rolling economic disaster say hi.

Meanwhile my city is run top to bottom by durrty stupid libtards and you have to meticulously route-plan to avoid all the new construction and infrastructure improvements. Such a declining shithole, it is.

Oh btw it's the areas painted deep red on the electoral map that are actually the declining meth-tweaking, opiod infested shitholes, at least in this state.

So your argument, as it were, is kind of beaten to death by...reality.
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Just stop, breh. You know good and god damned well that there is a big difference between someone who is a liberal by Iowa standards and big city liberals. The Iowa "liberal" is like "I think we need a 1% sales tax hike to keep the teacher-student ratio below 20:1" or "I think we need a small property tax hike to add a lane and widen offramps off 235" or crap like that. An Iowa liberal has actual tangible goals. Big city liberals are the types of people whose primary concern is virtue signaling nonsense like banning straws or rolling out transgender bathroom rules and preserving their own illiquid pension system.

My only complaint about living in a theocracy is that you can only buy hard liquor at a liquor store and they're not open on Sundays.
 
okeefe4prez said:
Just stop, breh. You know good and god damned well that there is a big difference between someone who is a liberal by Iowa standards and big city liberals. The Iowa "liberal" is like "I think we need a 1% sales tax hike to keep the teacher-student ratio below 20:1" or "I think we need a small property tax hike to add a lane and widen offramps off 235" or crap like that. An Iowa liberal has actual tangible goals. Big city liberals are the types of people whose primary concern is virtue signaling nonsense like banning straws or rolling out transgender bathroom rules and preserving their own illiquid pension system.

My only complaint about living in a theocracy is that you can only buy hard liquor at a liquor store and they're not open on Sundays.
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<<My only complaint about living in a theocracy is that you can only buy hard liquor at a liquor store and they're not open on Sundays.>>

If that's your only complaint about a theocracy...
 
hawkeyebob62 said:
<<My only complaint about living in a theocracy is that you can only buy hard liquor at a liquor store and they're not open on Sundays.>>

If that's your only complaint about a theocracy...
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Well, the roads aren't in great shape, either, but the Republicans finally caved to the Chamber of Commerce and realized that it's hard to bring in foreign investment when the first thing someone sees when they leave the airport is a road that is in bad shape, so there was a gas tax increase.
 
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