Doohow's Random Sports Musings

At the last game of the 2009 NBA finals, Kareem Abdul Jabbar was on his way to the locker room area when he was stopped by security. They asked him who he was and he told them. The security guard then said he'd have to verify this and radioed his boss. Can you imagine what that conversation was like? "Um, sir I have a guy here that says he's Kareem Abdul Jabbar." "Is he 7 feet tall?" "Yes sir" "Then fucking let him in!"

All of you Vikings fnas that say you don't want Brett Favre, you need to get over it. Brett will be a Viking and you should all be embracing it. I know Brett is old and not the QB he used to be, but he is probably better than Sage and Tarvaris. If you have an NFL team and you're picking QBs, are you really going to take Sage Rosenfels over Brett Favre? If Brett and Sage show up at my touch football game and I have the first pick, I know who I'm taking. Tom would probably take Pat, but I'd bet the rest of us go with Brett.

Another thing for Minnesota fans, particularly Gopher football, we're not going to contend this year and probably won't for a while. I know we're excited about the new stadium, and Brewster, and the recruiting class, but it isn't going to happen. I love college football and the Gophers, but where college football differs from all professional and most other college sports, is it has divisions where the programs are not even in the same league. Every once in a while a Minnesota or a similar type team can make a run, but 9 out of 10 years we aren't going to compete with Ohio State, Michigan, or Penn State. The power structure in college football doesn't change like it does in professional sports. There might be a new powerhouse team or an existing one may fall off once every ten years or so. A big reason for this is the fan base. We'll catch the game on Saturday if we think about it or aren't up north fishing. Columbus Ohio shuts down on game day. There isn't a person in the state of Alabama that isn't in front of a TV when the Crimson Tide are playing. College football fans of powerhouse schools are crazy and diehard. They aren't going to let you and the other casual fans of your mid-level team knock them off by the sheer will of the masses. They are nuts and Gopher fans need to get some of that fire before we can start the long process of becoming a big time program.