I often find that I am trying to bring innocent people into my world of MN sports craziness. I took my 11 and 8 year old cousins to the Gopher Basketball game vs SDSU last Thursday night (keeping in mind that I needed to get to South Dakota for Christmas….would have been smart to skip the game and travel non-snow packed roads in the afternoon). I made sure we got there plenty early so they could take in all the pregame activities for their very first Gopher basketball game, that I could fully quiz them on which numbers were which players (they got an A+ by the way), and influence who their favorite player should be (they settled for Al Nolen…easy to remember and the player that was on their ticket. Good choice by the way!).
The evening ended with my 2 little cousins declaring to me that the evening was:
1. The MOST fun that they had ever had (I made sure to NOT share w/ them the terrible Gopher statistics throughout the game…around 50% from the free throw line, getting outrebounded by SDSU, and trailing for a majority of the first half). Details, Details.
2. They also wanted to go to a football game too (What??? As long as I can keep them distracted from THOSE statistics, we should be good).
3. They wanted to go to the University of Minnesota (YES!!! Mission accomplished!!) and be a Gopher.
All in all, the evening was SO much fun and a HUGE success:) You are welcome University of Minnesota…2 new Gopher fans were born last week!!
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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