Bob CollinsWe’re going to have plenty of these sorts of videos, we suspect. There’s nothing classy about Philadelphia sports fans and Vikings fans were warned it might be a bad idea to wear the purple at the Vikings-Eagles game. Read more →
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Fans have contributed money to Thomas Morstead’s foundation in New Orleans, but he’s turned around and donated it back, believing the money should stay in the community.
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It’s the price Jake Reiman paid for the celebration after Stefon Diggs strutted into the end zone, giving the Vikings a playoff win over the New Orleans Saints, and spawning dozens of YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter videos of the celebrations in living rooms across the upper Midwest. Read more →
Vikings fans noticed that Thomas Morstead, the punter for the Saints, quickly returned to the field for a meaningless extra-point attempt, after his team was beaten in Sunday’s game against New Orleans. So they started donating money to his charitable foundation. Read more →
The lure of the Super Bowl ad has been fading in recent years, perhaps as the suspense of the actual game has increased. But Super Bowl ads aren’t what they once were, forcing ad agencies to come up with something more clever.
Now, Skittles has. Read more →
Scott Stanfield sometimes dealt with some of society’s worst when he worked as a cop. But being a boys basketball coach and dealing with some parents is “way worse,” he tells the Brainerd Dispatch. Read more →
The takeaway here is that there are an awful lot of football fans who take video of each other watching television.
Also: There are a lot of questionable interior design decisions. Read more →
If there are player protests during the Super Bowl in Minneapolis next month, NBC says it won’t cover them up to keep advertisers happy. Read more →
The Star Tribune reports that Edina High School is the first school in the state to charge $100 to anyone who wants to stream any games online.
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Despite increasing knowledge of how the game is scrambling the brains of its players and the political fallout from protests for racial equity, football appears to be surviving just fine.
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In this week’s episode of comedian Bill Murray’s Facebook show touring minor league ballparks, we learn that the University of St. Thomas Freshman Immersion Program taught the kids how to do ‘the wave.’
Oh, UST, how could you? Read more →
It feels as though former NHL player Scott Young was talking to the hockey factories of Minnesota when he was inducted into the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame this week in Boston. Read more →
Matt Johnson, a former captain of the Minnesota Wild, has fallen into ‘a dark place,’ his mother tells TSN, the Canadian sports network. He’s addicted. She and her husband haven’t seen him in a decade. They hear he’s homeless in Santa Monica, Calif. The $6 million he made playing in the NHL is gone.
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Vonn is getting the Dixie Chicks treatment because she weighed in on the question of what it means to represent the United States? Read more →
There might well have been a time when two employees of a radio station in Forest City, Iowa (just over the border from Albert Lea, Minn.) would’ve thought twice about saying what they said during a basketball game last Tuesday. Read more →