no buyout from what I have read.

Aside from the Michelle Bachmann-belt, us Minnesotans are a bastion of common sense, fairness and liberal thoughts and practices. We all do well when each of us does well (including when our wild animal friends thrive!)

North Dakotan! As a Minnesotan, I wish he would go back to North Dakota.

As a Minnesotan, I am 99.9% sure that part of the other team's ire was due in large part to the fact that a non-metro team beat them. The suburban high schools are convinced of their superiority and can't ever deal with an actual city team or a rural team beating them at anything - in their minds, the only way one of…