The Law of Unintended Consequences and You

by WhiteSpeedReceiver on Feb 10, 2010 11:48 AM CST

The legislature is back in session, which means it's time for another round of action by the Minnesota government that will inevitably affect Gopher fans. Last year it was the blatantly incompetent attempt at populism through the alcohol bill. This year, like it or not, is the lack of proposal for a Vikings stadium. While you may or may not be a fan of the Vikings, they do have a few effects on Gophers. For some reason that escapes me, the coaches in the past have said it's a benefit to recruiting to have them in town. Another issue is that if the Vikings leave there will be more attention focused on the Gophers, good and bad. The media tends to focus solely on the negative, which will probably not change because the media here is crap (If you're a member of the Twin Cities media and reading this, sorry, but the truth hurts). The only thing that could get that to change would be winning, because the media here is a bunch of whores. The other issue I can think of right away is that if the Gophers football team is the only show in town, you can expect ticket prices to go up. How much would clearly be up for debate, but people love to go to football games, and the Gophers would be the big kid on the block once again. A numbers geek could have a field day thinking about the possibilities for the Maroon and Gold if this does play out.

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I heard last week KFAN complaining about gopherhole, they get all up in arms about the anonymity of these types of sites, and only pick out the most extreme idiotic comments (I’m looking at you pantherhawk). First, why would it benefit us at all to put our real name on these comments? the internet is the last place you want your name to appear if at all possible, second, you never see them respond directly on these sites with the actual authors of some of these critical blogs about them. I believe they don’t respond to the reasonable stuff is because they can’t handle the critics, they get really comfortable tearing other people down but throw a fit when they get ripped. I’ve written several emails to some of the columnists in this town(including all my personal info) and the have NEVER responded. While Brewster made time for my daughter to interview him for her high school newspaper.

"they're calling insane hogs???"

by CrowTrobot on Feb 10, 2010 12:58 PM CST reply actions

Want Duuuh Fan to be more positive about Gopher football?

Let KFAN broadcast Gopher football games. Oh ya,they’ll say upfront that it won’t affect how they approach reporting on the team,but anybody with half a brain can see through that. Even smarmy Dan Burrito would change his tune as far as outright attacks on Brewster goes-or they’d can his metrosexual butt. See-win/win!

by mahogma66 on Feb 10, 2010 7:02 PM CST up reply actions