Bob CollinsThe University of Wisconsin added a pretty solid class of recruits on National Signing Day, but didn’t have everything they needed until they signed 6-year-old Nolan Faust to the squad. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Tag: Football
Kyndel McConchie, who lives in Columbia, S.C., says it’s unfair that the violence directed toward Vikings fans at last Sunday’s NFC championship game soils the ‘classy team’ of which she’s a die-hard fan. Read more →
It’s probably only a coincidence that it happened just after a big snowstorm in the host city, but the price of Super Bowl tickets at US Bank Stadium are sliding. Read more →
Jigar Desai said he wasn’t trying to catch the train when he ran into a concrete pole. He just saw a bunch of Eagles fans and wanted to get them pumped up.
Alcohol was involved.
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It’s been a long time since we’ve all had the kind of fun together that we had in the last week, despite football’s best effort to make us hate it. Read more →
We’re going to have plenty of these sorts of videos, we suspect. There’s nothing classy about Philadelphia sports fans and Vikings fans were warned it might be a bad idea to wear the purple at the Vikings-Eagles game. Read more →
The takeaway here is that there are an awful lot of football fans who take video of each other watching television.
Also: There are a lot of questionable interior design decisions. Read more →
Despite increasing knowledge of how the game is scrambling the brains of its players and the political fallout from protests for racial equity, football appears to be surviving just fine.
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They don’t call the kids on the Caledonia High School football team “champs” for nothing, and it’s not just because they beat Pipestone 57-to-6 on Friday to win the state Class AA football championship, their eighth title in the last 11 years. Read more →
This looked like your basic NFL touchdown yesterday. A player makes a decent catch, runs it to the end zone and is mobbed by happy teammates. Nice. There was more to the story. A lot more. Read more →
Yesterday afternoon, thousands of volunteers for the upcoming Super Bowl week attended their training on how to put the state’s best foot forward for visitors to our fair state, many convinced that we’re just nicer and more polite than people in the rest of the country. Read more →
The Green Bay Packers paid tribute to veterans during their game on Monday night, giving away American flags to everyone streaming into the stadium.
Many of the flags ended up on the ground. Read more →
Fired Maine high school football coach Duane Greaton says he wants to tell his side of the story and we’re all ears, waiting to find out why the defensive unit of the Gray-New Gloucester football team was told to yell ‘who’s your daddy?’ every time they got to the quarterback for Yarmouth High School.
The quarterback has two mothers. Read more →
Measured by national publicity per capita, Cleveland, Minn., stands alone in America. Read more →
The Green Bay Packers asked the fans in Lambeau Field last night to do what the players on the field were about to do: link arms and show unity. It could have been an inspiring moment. It wasn’t. Read more →