Today’s story also appears to illuminate the extent to which some of the nation’s top sportswriters have covered for the NFL. Read more →
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Tag: NFL
Well, here we are. The opening Sunday of football season for the NFL. A chance to follow through on the off-season promises not to support the NFL because you don’t like the owners holding up local taxpayers for a new stadium, or the meager punishment handed out to those players who beat their wives and Read more →
The University of Minnesota reportedly is joining an attempt to prevent the Vikings from using the word Redskins in promotional advertising for its Nov. 2 game at TCF Bank Stadium. Read more →
The conversation surrounding the weekend revelation of perks demanded by the NFL in exchange for Minneapolis hosting Super Bowl LII entered the ‘don’t worry about it’ phase today.
The advice comes from famed foodie Andrew Zimmern, who takes on local scribes today for paying attention to the controversy. Read more →
It’s a powerful ad that the National Congress of American Indians produced earlier this year to oppose the name of the Washington Redskins. Tonight, it will air in seven major markets (not Minneapolis) during the NBA Finals game between San Antonio and Miami. The Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation, a small group located north of San Read more →
There were so many jaw-dropping factoids in the weekend Star Tribune article revealing what Minneapolis gave away to get the 2018 Super Bowl game that it’s hard to know where to begin. So let’s begin with the conclusion: Politicians either don’t know what’s going on in their own city, or they’re disingenuous in their denials of knowing what’s going on in their own city. Read more →
Minnesota doesn’t get to be the last “team” standing very often when it comes to the NFL, so there might be a certain joy in watching the also-rans bite their lips with disappointment for a change. Sorry, Indianapolis. That's it. Indy is eliminated. New Orleans, Minneapolis fight it out. Disappoint ensues pic.twitter.com/qFKXXwFlfr — Stephen Holder Read more →
Minneapolis is trying mightily today to woo the National Football League to the city for the Super Bowl in 2018. Odds are that by then, the league will still be the most popular sport in America despite every scandalous piece of evidence that could give a person a reason to turn away. Coincidentally, the latest Read more →
Vikings and/or Chris Kluwe fans will be playing the ‘Guess the Uncooperative Person’ game today as the probe continues into whether the former Vikings punter lost his job because of his outspoken views on same-sex marriage. Read more →
Michael Sam, who plays football and is also gay, was selected by the St. Louis Rams very late — some say far too late — in the NFL draft over the weekend. The Rams made a statement with the pick and now might face another difficult challenge: how to cut Michael Sam. Read more →
Upon further review, the NFL may be more enlightened than the media portrays. Is racially offensive material more acceptable if it’s art? Behind the caucus night fights in Minneapolis. The viral cop photo in Saint Paul. And how to see the ice caves of Lake Superior. Read more →
It turns out that if you might be drafted in the NFL, you don’t just call up a reporter and say you’re gay. There’s a little more information about the lengths to which his agents had to go in an article on Outsports.com. Among the nuggets: Former Viking Chris Kluwe, currently embroiled in a legal Read more →
We’re pretty well done with Richard Sherman and the Super Bowl is still a week away, a challenge to us to stay interested in football for another week. Read more →
What we don’t know about cars, can you call Richard Sherman a jerk without being called a racist, the caves of Lake Superior, why Dunkin’ might not be such a sweet deal for Minnesota, and Ricky Rubio is still adorable. Read more →
Mike Zimmer: "Wait… Who says I'm blunt?" pic.twitter.com/DV9rWyNtRI — Minnesota Vikings (@Vikings) January 17, 2014 New Minnesota Vikings head coach Mike Zimmer tried to assure those attending his first news conference today that he’s one of us. “I’ve gone hunting and fishing in areas just like this,” he said. “I grew up watching the NFC Read more →