FB: Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[DutchFan2004]

Fins very funny stuff  There is a lot in common with Iowa.  Polkas are big, uff da is not big and upnort and baatree aren't but you hit the nail on the head with everything else. 

[Kira & Jaxon's Dad]

Does this poll at the top of the page annoy anyone else as much as me?  Is there a way to get rid of it?  Pat?

Duff, is that better?

I'm surprised that anyone can go in and modify the poll?

Do you like "Poles" or "Polls"?   

[57Johnnie]

Fins - Great. As a cheesehead , I can relate. I was 25 before I knew what a shake was and still think a malt is much better. 

[OzJohnnie]

Fins - Great. As a cheesehead , I can relate. I was 25 before I knew what a shake was and still think a malt is much better. 

I like malts better as well, but I've had to adapt to the Aussie lingo where they serve "thick shakes" (as opposed to thin?) and "malteds."  I can survive...  Now I'm  thinking of stopping by Dairy Bell on the way to work.

Fins;

"Every wedding dance you have ever been to has the hokey pokey and the chicken dance" was a culture shocker for Mrs. Oz.  Her mouth fell open when the DJ played the hokey-pokey at our wedding and nearly hit the floor when my relatives got up and danced.  I take great pride in my Minnesota roots, but some of our traditions require more adjustment for the outsider than others.

[retagent]

raiderguy reminded me of something. I watched the UMD/Central Washington game on, I believe, ESPNU. It was the Bulldogs season opener after having won the D II title last year. They also had, at the time, the nations longest winning streak at 17 games. They announced their third largest crowd in UMD stadium history, and if my failing memory serves me correctly it was well under 5000.

[WithasilentK]

It was 5389 according to the boxscore.  Not sure what the stadium looks like, so that's not bad.  It looked like most home games have about 3000.

[finsleft]

Fins - Great. As a cheesehead , I can relate. I was 25 before I knew what a shake was and still think a malt is much better. 

I like malts better as well, but I've had to adapt to the Aussie lingo where they serve "thick shakes" (as opposed to thin?) and "malteds."  I can survive...  Now I'm  thinking of stopping by Dairy Bell on the way to work.

Fins;

"Every wedding dance you have ever been to has the hokey pokey and the chicken dance" was a culture shocker for Mrs. Oz.  Her mouth fell open when the DJ played the hokey-pokey at our wedding and nearly hit the floor when my relatives got up and danced.  I take great pride in my Minnesota roots, but some of our traditions require more adjustment for the outsider than others.

And remember the Schottische? It was a big group dance where you'd skip, hop and spin around. And the dollar dance? And at 4:00 about 1/3 of the crowd would disappear when the men with white foreheads left to "do chores".

[corn horn]

All the radio clap-chap is interesting. I have listened to many a Johnnie broadcast, since others are so hard to get in the cities, and they are decent, but as all have declared, prone to overdoing the ads at the spots, and game-time is lost--sometimes huge plays. Others I have heard in recent years were average caliber. Nothing has resembled "student" broadcast as I recall.

I was following the Cobber game on the internet feed of what I believe was AM 740, which must be the Fargo-Moohead KFAN affilliate. It was respectable...not awesome, but far from an embarrassment. Interestingly, I was able to hear all the dialogue between the game announcer and the station manager (or whatever) in the commercial breaks. Each break they would start an ad, then dialogue about how long the commercial break would be. The station might ask, if they could cover 4 spots (2 minutes), and the game announcer would respond, perhaps, "no, we'd better keep it 90".  "Oh, so we'll hold off Village Inn until the next segment?" "OK". Etc., etc.

Bottom line...I don't think the Cobbers are financially bankrupt as an institution for want of more ads. The radio station didn't appear to have a problem with holding off ads. I learned all I needed to about the various restaurants and orthopedic clinics in the F-M area. Moreover, I didn't miss a play.

At halftime, there was even some booth to station dialogue about the fact that there were some call-ins about all of this being over heard. The booth announcer was adamant that it was impossible, which I'm guessing it may have been for the actual radio, but not the internet feed.

OK, not the most entertaining post, but I felt the need to chip in.

[OzJohnnie]

The Dollar Dance, ha!  We had a minor uprising at the reception over the dollar dance.  Mrs Oz, not having ever been exposed to the tradition, didn't feel comfortable with the Dollar Dance.  When some rumblings like, "What the hell?  No Dollar Dance?" started bubbling up then we had to do an impromtue dance to keep the natives settled.

[corn horn]

The Dollar Dance, ha!  We had a minor uprising at the reception over the dollar dance.  Mrs Oz, not having ever been exposed to the tradition, didn't feel comfortable with the Dollar Dance.  When some rumblings like, "What the hell?  No Dollar Dance?" started bubbling up then we had to do an impromtue dance to keep the natives settled.

Back in the late 70's and early 80's I played bass in a band that did way to many wedding dances up in the lower Red River Valley region. Another unbelievable favorite was dancing to "Little Brown Jug"--first at a tempo so slow the well-intoxicated needed to be held up by their partners to keep from falling over, then at double-time, when the "natives" would lock elbows and spin in sort of a 2-person version of crack-the-whip. Great fun??

I agree with the Mrs., though. I detest the dollar dance.

[BDB]

The Dollar Dance, ha!  We had a minor uprising at the reception over the dollar dance.  Mrs Oz, not having ever been exposed to the tradition, didn't feel comfortable with the Dollar Dance.  When some rumblings like, "What the hell?  No Dollar Dance?" started bubbling up then we had to do an impromtue dance to keep the natives settled.

We missed our dollar dance due to the weather. And being the profiteer that I am it was a major bummer. But, since it was March and we got married in a frickin' blizzard it was either time to leave the Little Falls Ballroom and make it to the Holiday Inn in Brainerd or spend our wedding night at my new Father and Mother-In-Law's house.  

[DuffMan]

Gotta do a dollar dance!  That's good honeymoon money, there!

[tmerton]

Make sure you tune into Football Weekly tonight, it is streamed on the website, its tonight from the Stonehouse Tavern and Eatery...7pm central time until 8...we will have Mike Trewick and Dominik Haik on from the Js and Sartell head coach Jon Ross on as our high school guest...start with the J's wrap with High School...

I tried the station website ("Listen Live") around 7:15 (5:15 my time) but all I got was the message "WBHR can only stream select broadcasts outside of ESPN.  Check back to see if your event is streaming..."   

[tafkaw]

Make sure you tune into Football Weekly tonight, it is streamed on the website, its tonight from the Stonehouse Tavern and Eatery...7pm central time until 8...we will have Mike Trewick and Dominik Haik on from the Js and Sartell head coach Jon Ross on as our high school guest...start with the J's wrap with High School...

I tried the station website ("Listen Live") around 7:15 (5:15 my time) but all I got was the message "WBHR can only stream select broadcasts outside of ESPN.  Check back to see if your event is streaming..."   

I noticed the same thing tonight.  You actually have to hook up through the "listen live" link on the right side of the football page at gojohnnies.com.

[OzJohnnie]

Gah!  The Thursday update from Frank Rajkowski is rough.  It reads like the after match report of a UFC event - everyone is bloody and wounded.