My MN sports craziness may have reached an all time high. I made the 1.5 hour commute to campus and paid $20 for parking (on West Bank!!!) to NOT have plans to go to the Vikings game. I had my final MBA class of the semester and we had a presentation we needed to make. I wore running tights under my jeans and brought spare Gopher gear just in the off chance that I could make it over to the Eastern Bank. I got to campus and the excitement was too much to bear. I went to class and asked my professor if our group could present first….his response: “as long as you don’t leave early”. Of course not….and Brett Favre is not starting tonight. So…marathon presentation, quick change into Gopher gear, skipped the last half of class (duh), and hopped on the bus to arrive at the stadium just in time to hear the roar of the crowd w/ the Percy Harvin touchdown. I made the trek to Stub’s to meet friends, decided to go to the game just before halftime (I am 32, have a student ID and it is free!!), ventured over to the stadium as the freezing rain was beginning to come down, took a picture outside of the stadium (after deciding it was too cold and alcohol free to go inside), ventured back to Sally’s, convinced 4 people to NOT drop their Gopher football season tickets for next year (I think they said yes just to hear me STOP justifying why the needed to keep them), and then walked 2 miles to my car in the snow. All of this to say that I was NEAR the stadium for Monday Night Football. Ridiculous, but totally worth it (unless I do not get the required for reimbursement B- in the class that I just skipped).
About mnsportsgal
I am a self declared, crazy MN sports fan and was not even born and raised in this state. I CHOSE to come here 14 years ago and have been an insane, out of control MN sports fan since the day I stepped on the University of MN campus in September of 1996. I have attended 325 MN Gopher sporting events in the last 13 years, including 18 road trips that have ranged from Denver to El Paso to LA. I am on the waiting list for Gopher hockey season tickets (hint, hint to anyone of any influence that may end up reading this…I think I am #1345 on the list), so sadly, my Gopher sporting event total is not as high as I would ideally like it to be.
As if being a MN Gopher fan was not enough, I have attended a much less impressive 61 MN Twins, Vikings, and Wild Games over the last 10 years (after college when I had an actual salary to blow on this type of stuff). I know crazy sports fan has taken on a whole new level of madness when I have planned vacations around seeing a sporting event of a team that I am not even a fan of. I have made 7 roadtrips that include 3 trips to Lincoln NE, a trip to the 2003 Final Four in New Orleans, a trip to the 2003 Orange Bowl (Iowa vs USC), a trip to Stockholm to see their local hockey team (why not-I will be in Stockholm…what sporting event can I see??), and a trip to Denver to see the Rockies.
I have attended close to 400 MN sporting events in my short 13 year fan history and this may not compare to many other crazy Gopher fans, but my craziness is confirmed in the fact that I have decided to document it. I am not alone in this madness. I have a support system of equally fanatic friends and family who antagonize this craziness and I have posted some of my favorite all time quotes and ask for additional contributions on those that may have slipped my mind.
I am a Marketing person, so an expert at all things Power Point and Excel. Proper grammar and not using run on sentences or fragments is not something they teach us in business school, so do not judge the technical aspects of my blog writing please. I apologize ahead of time to my English major friends.
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