FB: Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[BDB]

BDB, what is your connection with beautiful Longville? My family has been there since 1953 when my dad purchased some land and a cabin on Kego Lake. I think he paid something like $3500 for 50 acres and plenty of lakeshore. A wise investment! It is a great area and close to Leech Lake and Walker, which is important come February and the EelPout Festival.

JR, Having grown up in the only county in Minnesota without a natural lake, in a tiny house next to the disposal plant and right across the street from the city dump, the one time my dad could scratch out enough money to take us anywhere was a week up to a little resort on Woman Lake near Longville.

That area was pure heaven to me growing up.

I would buy some property up there if Minnesota's roads weren't in such disarray and I could get there in a reasonable amount of time.

[USTBench]

USTBench. I see you're living in beautiful Arlington, VA. Next time you go to "El Pollo Rico", Have a 1/4 dark (or 1/2) with everything for me. I trust you know what I'm speaking of. If not you need to be informed.

Absolutely the best, although I usually hit the one in Wheaton, Md. -- and get lots of the mean green sauce. Line's usuall;y out the door -- and there are two more Peruvian chicken places within 100 yards.

Great with a cool brew. No Hamm's out here (that I've found) but Md. state store sells Leinies and the Trader Joe's have re-labeled TJ brands brewed in New Ulm.

You can't beat a half-chicken with sides for $6.30. The El Ranchero is where I go off Wilson Bvld for Twins baseball and $1 tacos though.

[DuffMan]

JR, Having grown up in the only county in Minnesota without a natural lake, in a tiny house next to the disposal plant and right across the street from the city dump, the one time my dad could scratch out enough money to take us anywhere was a week up to a little resort on Woman Lake near Longville.

And look at the empire that you've created now

[Kilted Rat]

fins: perhaps the distance between st. john's and st. thomas keeps the rivalry under the terms of obscene t-shirts?  Was there no defacement or vandalism of the other school's property?

I agree with you that St. John's doesn't need to apologize for winning 60-0.  It doesn't really matter after 40 as neither team is playing it's starters.  About half of Augsburg's team is freshmen, so what you likely saw in the second half was more of a c-squad game.  I'm all for getting everybody onto the field and playing.  win by 21 or 60, it's still a blowout, we can't put a teams pride ahead of giving guys opportunities to play in a college football game they normally wouldn't get to take part in.

So let me get this straight:

T-shirts making fun of students at the other school is bad.

But taking part in criminal acts of vandalism and destruction of private property is good?

What do you get when you cross a hippopotamus with a person's hematocrit? Apparently Bethel and Northwestern students.


I only took 8 credits of theology but we never got to the bible verse where it says "Thou shalt not create funny t-shirts but thou shalt commit acts of vandalism." Must be in one of the books the Catholic church threw out.

[BDB]

JR, Having grown up in the only county in Minnesota without a natural lake, in a tiny house next to the disposal plant and right across the street from the city dump, the one time my dad could scratch out enough money to take us anywhere was a week up to a little resort on Woman Lake near Longville.

And look at the empire that you've created now

Thanks Duff. I know where I got my work ethic from.

Actually, growing up across the street from the city dump had it's advantages. Me and the other boys from the 'hood always had things we could sift through and blow up. 

Nobody gave a sh#t unless we started something on fire, which, of course, happened all the time. 

[DuffMan]

JR, Having grown up in the only county in Minnesota without a natural lake, in a tiny house next to the disposal plant and right across the street from the city dump, the one time my dad could scratch out enough money to take us anywhere was a week up to a little resort on Woman Lake near Longville.

And look at the empire that you've created now

Thanks Duff. I know where I got my work ethic from.

Actually, growing up across the street from the city dump had it's advantages. Me and the other boys from the 'hood always had things we could sift through and blow up. 

Nobody gave a sh#t unless we started something on fire, which, of course, happened all the time. 

Were there rats to shoot?  I would have been in heaven if there were.  In fact, I would still have a great time with that.

[USTBench]

fins: perhaps the distance between st. john's and st. thomas keeps the rivalry under the terms of obscene t-shirts?  Was there no defacement or vandalism of the other school's property?

I agree with you that St. John's doesn't need to apologize for winning 60-0.  It doesn't really matter after 40 as neither team is playing it's starters.  About half of Augsburg's team is freshmen, so what you likely saw in the second half was more of a c-squad game.  I'm all for getting everybody onto the field and playing.  win by 21 or 60, it's still a blowout, we can't put a teams pride ahead of giving guys opportunities to play in a college football game they normally wouldn't get to take part in.

So let me get this straight:

T-shirts making fun of students at the other school is bad.

But taking part in criminal acts of vandalism and destruction of private property is good?

What do you get when you cross a hippopotamus with a person's hematocrit? Apparently Bethel and Northwestern students.


I only took 8 credits of theology but we never got to the bible verse where it says "Thou shalt not create funny t-shirts but thou shalt commit acts of vandalism." Must be in one of the books the Catholic church threw out.

KR:

I do remember cruising down I-94 and seeing various bridges where the words, "UST Turn Back Now" and "Tommies Suck" were spray painted. I'm suprised your billboard of Gags and Elliot right at the exit hasn't fallen prey to some vandalism.

Permissible is permissible.

SJU ranks right up there in US News but I'm not even sure what category we're trying to fall under now. Unfortunately, with our tense campus environment last year (gay professors wanting to shack up on University sponsored trips, Kessler's speech) we may have slid a little bit (there are probably other reasons too). I'm not too worried though, our endowment is quite healthy and we'll bounce back.

[johnnie_esq]

It has a SJU shout out after the 75 line space(no joke) near the bottom.  It is funny but nothing we haven't talked about before   

Easterbrook has lost his edge -- that's a pretty lame line you'd expect from a 90-year-old dot-dot-dot hack. Meanwhile, Page 2 has gone from a must-read to zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz lately -- and I hear that Whitlock might be leaving the "World Leader"  as well.

From that same article:
Meanwhile Mount Union College -- [u[year-in, year-out home of the worst sportsmanship in Division III[/u] -- relentlessly ran up the score on Otterbein, winning 71-14.

I don't know if I'd consider the Purple Raiders the worst of sportsmanship at the D3 level, as Larry Kehres' program is altogether very skilled and takes pains to ensure class of his operation.  But since MUC is one of only a handful of D3 schools that get any national recognition, I understand why Easterbrook said what he did-- he doesn't really follow D3 football!

[BDB]

Duff, I forgot about the rats! (sorry KR, not Kilted Rats) 

Oh yeah, it was BB gun and slingshot city.

Not that I don't like to hear all the smack talk going on in here lately, because I do, I want to remind everyone that there are 2 things we all agree on:

1. The Twins rock!

and....

2. Anna.

[johnnie_esq]

Good memories today from the SC Times...

[*note: Cobber fans may not think such evokes a good memory at all*]

[DuffMan]

It has a SJU shout out after the 75 line space(no joke) near the bottom.  It is funny but nothing we haven't talked about before   

Easterbrook has lost his edge -- that's a pretty lame line you'd expect from a 90-year-old dot-dot-dot hack. Meanwhile, Page 2 has gone from a must-read to zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz lately -- and I hear that Whitlock might be leaving the "World Leader"  as well.

From that same article:
Meanwhile Mount Union College -- [u[year-in, year-out home of the worst sportsmanship in Division III[/u] -- relentlessly ran up the score on Otterbein, winning 71-14.

I don't know if I'd consider the Purple Raiders the worst of sportsmanship at the D3 level, as Larry Kehres' program is altogether very skilled and takes pains to ensure class of his operation.  But since MUC is one of only a handful of D3 schools that get any national recognition, I understand why Easterbrook said what he did-- he doesn't really follow D3 football!

Keep in mind that I'm a former player. 

Playing at MUC in 2001, I can say that a lot of their fans were jack asses (but not Raiderguy ).  I'm guessing it was a lot of the students.  Larry Kehres and his players, though, were a class act.

[johnnie_esq]

I haven't heard from 2/3 of my committee, but the pick'em lines are up-- it's Wednesday and we need to get people making them...

[miacwatchmen]

Good memories today from the SC Times...

[*note: Cobber fans may not think such evokes a good memory at all*]

That is a great memory right there!! What a wonderful day it was up in Moorhead. Simple known as... "The Pass"

[Johnnie Red]

BDB, so what small town in Minnesota did you grow up in, if you don't mind me asking? Mine was Norwood, before it became Norwood Young America (the two towns merged in `97). Comparable memories about the city dump, though ours was out in the country. Rats galore. Remember the days when you could take your garbage, walk out into your backyard, dump it into the 55 gallon barrel and light it up? Or in the fall when you could rake all the leaves from your lawn onto the city street and light up the leaves and watch them burn while your apples wrapped in tinfoil warmed up. Then there was Halloween when you and your buddies got dozens of eggs, headed to another neighborhood in town and hit every car that came by. Those were the days in small town Minnesota.

[BDB]

BDB, so what small town in Minnesota did you grow up in, if you don't mind me asking? Mine was Norwood, before it became Norwood Young America (the two towns merged in `97). Comparable memories about the city dump, though ours was out in the country. Rats galore. Remember the days when you could take your garbage, walk out into your backyard, dump it into the 55 gallon barrel and light it up? Or in the fall when you could rake all the leaves from your lawn onto the city street and light up the leaves and watch them burn while your apples wrapped in tinfoil warmed up. Then there was Halloween when you and your buddies got dozens of eggs, headed to another neighborhood in town and hit every car that came by. Those were the days in small town Minnesota.

JR, you were a rebel! 

Don't forget about raiding the neighborhood apple trees. 

Everything went then, everything is regulated now. 

Austin.