Following is the first guest article that I’ve posted. If you’d like to post a guest article, click here for more details. I’ll be back on Tuesday morning with my official reaction to the Michigan game. For now, enjoy this article by “The Gray Haired Gopher”:
Minnesota Football Gopher Sorrows
by The Gray Haired Gopher
The gopher must come out of the hole. No more Minnesota nice, and no more acceptance of losing to “elite” teams. Michigan cannot continue to come into the gopher nation and win football games. The Little Brown Jug was last in a Minnesota trophy case in 2005 (won in Michigan), and before that 1986. How many trips to the doom dome have we made, pilgrims going to suffer the agony of defeat, rather than fans experiencing the thrill of victory. We are nice people, we don’t deserve this do we? Is it our mission to be the fodder for other programs to feast on?
Don’t get me wrong, I think Tim Brewster is doing a magnificent job in a Lou Holtzian way. Keep building the program coach and stay here for a while at least. We begin to get on board with wins, and in fact, we will overload the band wagon with a few more. The ferocious timberwolf hasn’t helped our professional basketball team here, so we can keep the sequestered lovable gopher. Just let it out of it’s hole! In the new TCF stadium, the gopher will have a home again and will be let loose at last!
The above was written this morning before today’s game with Michigan. Maybe it was the gloomy weather, or just the accumulated years of punishment, like an old boxer after too many punches to the head, that gave me the premonition of the impending loss today. The loss last week to Northwestern, in fact a much better played game for the gophers and one they really could have won, added to today’s miserable loss adds up to a prediction of a 7-5 season as I see it. A big improvement from last year, but still the suffering in the doom dome continues and will continue with Iowa in two weeks before ending forever.
Iowa just upset Penn State and will roll in here to finish us off and get a better bowl than Minnesota. Minnesota, with no effective offense in the past few games, seems to have little chance to beat the odds next week in Madison. Thank you gophers for getting to seven wins and for honoring yet another time the school Ski-U-Mah motto, which translated literally actually means “wait until next year”!
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