This was a long, MN sports program free weekend with the Gophers on break for finals and the Vikings playing MNF. This does not mean that I did not find a way to incorporate my MN sports craziness into my weekend.
Of course I need to make some Minnesota M sugar cookies for my little cousin’s bake sale (the cookies on the football shaped platter were a HIT by the way. Any naysayers who claim there are not any hard core Gopher fans out there didn’t see the folks fighting over my cookies). Please ignore the fact that the cookies are more orange than maroon. It did not matter to the hard core Gopher fans that fought over the cookies.
What MN Christmas would be complete without a MN sports themed tree? My sports crazy co-workers were my influencers here…so I can’t claim complete craziness. Unfortunately, we lost the office tree decorating contest….what??? Dumb Boise State fan contest judges.
I also figured I would venture out and do some Christmas shopping for myself. I completely justified my purchase of a maroon North Face down jacket because I did not have an appropriate Gopher coat to wear to the football games (and it was on sale-duh). Yes-I did not have an appropriate Gopher WINTER coat to wear to the 2-3 football games PER YEAR where I would need a down jacket. Oh well, it is cute and I suppose I can wear it on my way to Gopher basketball games. I also purchased my FOURTH MN Gopher stocking hat. All my other stocking hats don’t have the matching scarf that I also purchased…completely justified.
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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