I’ve never heard Dilfer pretend to have been anything but what he was, a mediocre QB who got smart enough with experience to avoid mistakes and manage the game when he got on a good team. He played a good, smart game in his SB, avoiding turnovers and getting one big play. As an analyst, he comes off as thinking he…

How the fuck did you get 55 replies from bros with broken irony meters on Deadspin?

See the essay “Women in Film Noir” by Janey Place.

That’s the thing about cold. It’s human nature to try to deny it, to not give in, to not build those walkways unless it’s absolutely necessary. So the people who suffer the most are those who live just below that threshhold. I went to colege for one year at Gustavus Adolphus, which is on top of a hill in St. Peter,…

No, no and NO! We are not smug about snow volume. We know what Lake Effect is...

Once you step foot out of Minneapolis, you’re either in St. Paul (D), or an inner ring suburb that could be Dem, GOP (Edina, yuchh), Fascist (Bachmania) or some mix. Oh, you meant ‘Twin Cities Metro Area’? Well, fake-Gopher, the Iron Range and North Shore have been solid working-class New Deal Democrats forever, and…

Well, I’m 62, and everyone I knew understood Apollo to be a stand-in for Ali after seeing the original Rocky in the theater. The connection was also referenced regularly in mainstream move reviews.

If you’d like to Know More, listen to the commentary track on the DVD. Verhoven’s a hoot, and screenwriter Ed Neumier is trolling him a bit throughout. The opening segment, where Verhoven addresses criticism of the film, is absolutely classic.

Nope. UMD (University of Minnesota - Duluth). They built the campus with walkway connectors between all the buildings, so you never have to go outside once you get in. Because, in January, you would die...

As others have noted, going an hour from Mwaukee into truly rural WI, you’re likely in LESS Trump-fucked land than in Brookfield/Waukesha. As a native Gopher, our crazed wingnuts are most common in Shelly Bachmann’s gerrymandered North-suburban district. Outside of The Cities, we’ve got reliably blue districts in…

I did my undergrad at Minnesota, and had season tickets for Gopher hoops during Flip’s playing career. He came in having been a scoring machine in high school (All-American, 32 ppg, ) and the 73-4 Gophers often had to rely on his shooting for offense, as the only other scorer was a dead-eyed but slow-footed forward…

Yes, but Walker’s from Mwaukee (proper pronounciation, or so I’ve been told by natives).

AP knows there no ‘I’ in team, and never pouts when he doesn’t get the ball on every down. So what if he goes for 1 or 2 yards most of those carries, he’ll protect Teddy by picking up the blitz, and provide a sure-fire target for passes out of the backfield. Now that he’s back, and the real troublemakers like Kluwe…

Amy Adams, The Andrews Sisters, Daniel and Philip Berrigan, Harry Blackmun, Norman Borlaug, Herb Brooks, the Carlson Brothers, Dave Casper, Leeann Chin, Eddie Cochran, Betty Crocker, Dairy Queen, Dr. Demento , William O. Douglas, Louise Erdrich, Larry Fitzgerald, Al Franken and Tom Davis, Funkytown, John Gagliardi,…

I see what you did there, Badger.

“one of the women said Teague asked to perform oral sex on her.”
— Mpls. Stribune

Gender poitics in Gopher athletics is complicated. It’s not valid to imply the previous AD was good for the distaff side. The women’s basketball coach, Pam Borton, had built a power-base inside the athletic department despite being abusive to players, and fielded teams that underperformed their talent level, folded…

I live just S of SF, so I get a fair amount of 49er news. Last year, when they announced they were keeping Ray MacDonald despite the abuse charges, I predicted that was the end of their season. When that stuff goes public it become locker room cancer if the guy gets a pass. You could tell that the BS slung around…

In case writing “Snuggles is in fact the only true incarnation of the Christ” is an invitation/test to post another Negativland reference:

I hereby apologize to you, Albert Burneko, on behalf of America, for having to put up with commenters who apparently have never heard Dennis Leary, Bill Hicks, or even Bobcat Goldtwait, and have no clue that over-the-top rants express contempt for a person or thing, and the ridiculousness self-indulgence of contempt,…