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I really liked the podcast with Carman, he did a pretty good job giving his view which as an alumni is an important view to hear from. I look forward to more of these quick shift podcasts...great job Jup!

I'm as surprised as anyone, I did not think that Iowa had it in them to go out and win this game. I'll admit that I didn't watch any of the first three quarters because I'm one of those superstitious fans that doesn't watch a game if it is going my teams way. I got my notifications of the first two ...

Armadillo wrote: ↑
Sat Nov 16 6:22 pm
I hate Iowa with the burning passion of a thousand suns.

Well, neener neener poopoo head!

This is as confident as I've ever witnessed this fanbase being about any game vs. Iowa that I can recall. In years past you guys would have been typing furiously about this game and now this thread is siderailed into a discussion about rankings, the SEC, and Alabama rather than the game at hand. Cov...

And Kirk? LOL. There’s a raging debate within that fan base about him, as most know. My take: they should poll non-Iowa fans about whether they want Kirk to stay or go as their head coach. My vote goes to him staying, because his ceiling is lower than the ceiling our new culture brings to the table...

Just had to laugh that Nate Stanley was not on the Davey O'Brien finalist list after being on the preseason watch list. While Tanner Morgan of Minnesota and Brock Purdy of Iowa State made the list. I thought it was ridiculous to have Stanley on the preseason list and how many pundits think/thought o...

PS - I’m secretly afraid Ferentz and Co use this game to uncork a masterful performance, replete with trick plays and what not (see: OSUs ass kicking in 2017 @ Kinnick) The hope I have against that is Iowa doesn’t have much to play for anymore. They’re season was crushed by Wisconsin last week in a...

Here is my prediction for Saturday, Minnesota wins 27-21. Iowa just doesn't have enough of everything to stay with a good team which Minnesota obviously is and they are improving each week. Iowa's defense has a tough time stopping the pass unless their front four can create havoc because the DB's ar...

I haven't checked into this thread in a while so I have a few Schell's beers that I have drank recently worth mentioning. -Oktoberfest was solid as always and easily my favorite Oktoberfest of all I tried this fall. I was lucky enough and persistent enough to blow the keg at The Loose Moose to get a...

I binged season two of Jack Ryan this weekend. Just as good as the first season.

My simple pleasure is the person behind my GPL moniker G-man, my son Grant. He is a freshman in high school this year which is daunting enough but also being the only kid at home with my daughter away at college has its disadvantages on a teenage boy. Over the course of the last 4 or 5 months he has...

So while we are playing Penn State on the 9th Iowa is playing at Madison. Loser is in all sorts of trouble. Most likely Wisconsin will win and run the table until they come here. With how mediocre Iowa's offense is they are going to struggle with everyone including us. Their D though is their savin...

So while we are playing Penn State on the 9th Iowa is playing at Madison. Loser is in all sorts of trouble. Most likely Wisconsin will win and run the table until they come here. With how mediocre Iowa's offense is they are going to struggle with everyone including us. Their D though is their savin...

So while we are playing Penn State on the 9th Iowa is playing at Madison. Loser is in all sorts of trouble. Most likely Wisconsin will win and run the table until they come here. With how mediocre Iowa's offense is they are going to struggle with everyone including us. Their D though is their savin...

I worked the Dylan concert here in Mankato last night. Easily the largest crowd at a Mankato concert I've worked here so far. I went and watched Bob sing two songs...checked that off my list of things I've done in my life. If he wasn't the icon that he is I wouldn't have went in to watch the two son...

Does anyone have Hulu Live TV? And, are you able to stream live BTN? Thinking about getting Hulu Live if they stream the live BTN feed. I have to work until 5pm on the Saturday of the away Michigan series, and won't be able to stream the game live on BTN+. Thinking this might be my only option to c...

My impressions on the Purple Cow vs. Whioux boondoggle here in Mankato last night. Both are really talented, well coached teams. Only had a few moments of idiocy on the ice, pretty much kept to hockey. The game was very fast and both teams moved the puck but I would lean the ice towards the Whioux f...

I didn't think I would ever see a uniform worse than the CC jersey last night and then I flipped over to the PSU-iowa game. It looks like Iowa crapped the bed then used that as a uniform model. It was a update of a failed uniform change back in the 90's. Looked like $h!t back then and looked like $...

Thin Lizzy....the most American non-American bar band....if that makes sense.

Mankato has went to 6:07 pm puck drop for every Saturday home game for the families this season. I will say that I have really enjoyed having it be only 8:30 when the game ends.

Dave Matthews and B.I.G. kind of stump me, to me DM isn't as important as his followers think he is and BIG just doesn't have the catalog to put him in this early...not saying that later on he gets in but not before a lot of others on this list. There are people on this list that influenced people o...

WTH? What road project is going on 35 S north of Albert Lea? And again on 169 near Mankato? We went down to Iowa and in both directions hit single lane traffic, 35 was over 18 miles! Mankato about 15. Now as far as we could tell there was literally nothing going on. No equipment. No tear ups. Nor d...

Just had a brief patch of snow flurries here in Mankato around 7:30 this morning. Now the sun is out...welcome to Minnesota!

Kind of weird listening to the end of the podcast with Bob's presser and hearing him say my last name when referencing the CC player.

Bonin21 wrote: ↑
Mon Oct 07 7:32 pm
CC best forwards will be SR and former whioux Wilkie and cake eater SO Copeland.

I'm glad that my not-relative left the Whioux

My takeaway from Mount Royal here in Mankato last night. Kato looked rusty but MR wasn't the usual overmatched Canadian squad. They were pretty good skaters which kept them in the game. My the end of the 3rd they reverted to the usual Canadian crap that usually always is the undoing to any Canadian ...

I know, I was just making an observation. Nothing I can do about being colorblind either. Might be fine for other types of it, just not for mine. It maybe explains your confusion of wearing Purple & Gold for the Mavericks and Maroon & Gold for the Gophers.... They look identical for you! :biggrin2:...

I wish they would/could keep Sturm and Mayhew up here but I totally get why they are in Iowa. No waivers needed and they deserve to be playing rather than being a player rotated in and out of the line up every game.

It just seems that Rask is going to continually get a pass since he is a $4M a year player and they aren't going to spend that on a player in the AHL. I don't think there has been a more obvious choice for a buyout for the Wild since the inception of this team. Put me in the preposterous statement t...

My best stories easily come from interactions on GPL and with people from GPL at events or games. I'm on a bit of an island as a Gopher hockey fan here in Mankato so GPL gives me a place to share the love of Gopher hockey. I've said that I'm easily the newest Gopher hockey fan on this board but I lo...

Didnt know that about the kid from game day. It sucks that he is being attacked for something 8 years old, buuuut, I do like having cautionary tales to reiterate to my teen and young adult clients about how putting stuff on the internet can come back to haunt. Good on him the take the cash and give...

The fallout of the several stories from the Iowa vs. Iowa State football game in the past two weeks has reached full on $h!t show status. One story is about the Iowa State fan who held up a sign on Gameday asking for money for Busch Light to be sent to his Venmo account. That blew up so big that he ...

frozen4champs wrote: ↑
Thu Sep 12 8:16 am
A little over 4 inches of rain again last night. That brings the weeks total to a little over 9 1/2 inches of rain this week.. Not going to make the harvest season an easier this year.

You'll be done before....Christmas....maybe

Greyeagle wrote: ↑
Mon Sep 23 5:17 pm
I thought Iowa played LA-Monroe this weekend??

Comments like these cross a certain line...

There is NO good reason for Iowa to rise in the rankings after they have a bye week. Yes I know, to you chuckleheads

Iowa should never rise in the rankings but I don't think any team should rise in the rankings after a bye week.

00xtremeninja wrote: ↑
Mon Sep 16 11:56 am
How traumatic can Iowa really be? It's a vast majority of cornfields and Pizza Ranches. The only thing that leaves you pining for being back in Iowa is driving through the flat abyss that is Nebraska. Iowa at least has hills.

In some areas there are hills.

I had no idea until I just did a two minute Google search about Big Buff. My first thought was "how is he worth that?" And then I saw the stats....I had NO idea his stats were that good.

I don't think any of us can be surprised at the money they gave Jared but the term is what I think most of us are concerned with. But with his style of play he could still be a very effective d-man in 5-6 years that is worth that money. Of course, it's the worry of injury derailing his career that m...

American Assasin: I have not read the books. Can you smash more cliches into a story? JFC, the first part was good, a nice character study, then it spiraled downward into every action movie ever. Meh. Like all of us who are fans of the books said, we hope that Amazon gets a hold of Mitch Rapp and i...

Iowa pulls it off against state. Was hoping they would lose Iowa has had a hard time putting State away recently when playing this game in Ames. Iowa State did their best impression of their 1980's teams by screwing up on that punt that finished off the game. Now Iowa just needs to heal up and then...

I'm hoping you guys can learn by osmosis. Perhaps if you learn Hair Metal died 30 years ago and indoor plumbing is a thing you guys won't be so...Iowegian :lol: Iowa is like if St. Cloud was a state :D Again, you show you really don't know Iowa that well. :mrgreen: Just like this damn state, countr...

Trust me none of us care what anyone in Iowa thinks about anything :) Iowegian thinking? I crack myself up sometimes :lol: What cracks me up is the term Iowegian. There are more Germans in Iowa than about any other descent. Northeast Iowa where my wife is from is about the only area that has deep S...

george wrote: ↑
Fri Sep 13 7:23 am

g-manpuck wrote: ↑
Fri Sep 13 6:56 am
f*** the Hawkeyes. That is all.
FYP

Still pissed that Iowa fans don't hate the Gopher football team?

f*** the Cyclones. That is all.

I did like having the Twitter feed on the right side because I missed some things from time to time on there. But I do like how the portal page looks now on my laptop and works good on my iPhone too.

The one thing that happening locally in my small town in the middle of nowhere Iowa was that two F-16's buzzed the town that afternoon. I mean they were literally less than a 1,000 ft in the air as they flew over. They went directly over my parent's house. By the time you heard them, they were gone....

I posted this on Facebook. 9/11 is one of two events in my 53 years that fall into the "where were you when..." category. The other is the Challenger explosion in 1986. Other major events obviously happened during this time but I can't tell you where I was or what I was doing like I can with 9/11 a...

I was re shingling a rental house for my boss at the time working with a former Marine who was a part of the first Marines over in Iraq for Desert Storm. The radio broke the news and it was a little scary to watch my co-worker start reliving Desert Storm right there on the roof. We both called it a ...

All my Iowa State hatred aside Jamie Pollard has done a tremendous job as the Athletic Director there in his tenure. About the only knock on his resume is letting Cael Sanderson leave, but you can't put this totally on Pollard since there is NO way ISU could compete with Pedo U's check book. And the...

Two things why Ames got this gameday....big rivalry game and Iowa State, like discussed earlier in the thread, has a great tailgating environment. I wish I could watch Gameday to see what happens and what is said but I'll be away from a tv until about noon on Saturday. I'm running/walking the Rugge...

Two things why Ames got this gameday....big rivalry game and Iowa State, like discussed earlier in the thread, has a great tailgating environment. I wish I could watch Gameday to see what happens and what is said but I'll be away from a tv until about noon on Saturday. I'm running/walking the Rugged...

Maize wrote: ↑
Sat Sep 07 10:44 pm
Gameday is going to Ames next weekend, leaving just 10 P5 programs that have never hosted the show.

Someone should apologize to the Gameday crew now for how horrible of a town Ames really is.

Fire wagon hockey and metallurgy save are two of his go-to phrases that annoyed me.

I obviously haven't been to a state fair in a long time because I don't remember carts at all the last time I went to the Iowa State Fair. I know that they are more prevalent than ever now days so I'm not surprised that they rear their ugly head at the Great Minnesota Get Together. The f*** are rude...

Iowa ended up looking like the Iowa team I love to hate. First snap....have to blow a time out because Nate Stanley is a blockhead. While Stanley's numbers for the day look good he still is the blockhead all us Iowa fans love to hate. Iowa's O-line is real good even though it took a hit by losing LT...

Well...Singles is no Smokey and the Bandit!

Singles was too good of a movie to be included in that list. I'll just agree to disagree... I'll agree that you're completely wrong. :mrgreen: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1040379_singles That's a list of people with an opinion on the movie...yep, got it. My opinion is that Say Anything or Jerr...

The Punisher: Decided to check out the movie, to compare to the Netflix series. The series was better. When Travolta is NOT a minus, that says something (minus Pulp Fiction, of course). The insertion of comic relief and the romance angle hurt the movie, to be honest. I thought the series was more r...

Slap Shot wrote: ↑
Wed Aug 28 8:40 am
Singles was too good of a movie to be included in that list.

I'll just agree to disagree...

I don't think I heard for sure but has Fleck pulled the plug on Annexstad for this season? I don't think it has been confirmed officially, but more or less what everyone is saying. Let's hope Morgan can stay healthy all season (can't recall the last season where we haven't had more than one start),...

I don't think I heard for sure but has Fleck pulled the plug on Annexstad for this season?

Random thing: I don't have GPL set to auto-login at work. For the last couple weeks, every time I've gone to log in (from the portal page), it gives me an error of sorts (like I entered the wrong password or something) and brings me to that 2nd screen which then my login works. I believe that I hav...

I think Singles may fall into this category of movies that sucked...quite possibly the best soundtrack for a movie in the 90's.

Starting a new tradition this year of going to 1 college football game a year with some friends. I've only been to Minnesota, Iowa State and Notre Dame before. The first few years are going to be all SEC with LSU, A&M & Ole Miss among the first few. I'll be checking out Neyland Stadium in a few wee...

Starting a new tradition this year of going to 1 college football game a year with some friends. I've only been to Minnesota, Iowa State and Notre Dame before. The first few years are going to be all SEC with LSU, A&M & Ole Miss among the first few. I'll be checking out Neyland Stadium in a few wee...

In the 13 years I've lived in Minnesota I have yet to make it to the fair. I went to the Iowa State Fair almost every year growing up in Iowa so I don't have an aversion to going to the fair just haven't taken the time. I always enjoyed going to the fair on weekday evenings the most. Parking was usu...

St. Cloud is looking to reduce their rink sizes and asking for funding from the State Legislature for refrigeration update. Brooks Center upgrade

Just another arena looking to do what is the inevitable by getting rid of old R-22 systems.

I rarely ever eat fried chicken anymore but if I did I'd probably do Popeye's over Canes, Churches, or KFC or whatever (there's probably other options but I'm not familiar). I’m from Iowa where the only proper chicken is a BROASTED chicken!! :dup: And a goddamn good wedding reception brings in the ...

I just don't get the appeal to The Current. I've tried to listen to it because I've had some friends tell me to give it a chance. Each time I've tried I've heard one song in a couple hours that I actually liked. Admittedly Mankato has a $h!teee radio selection but I can handle even the worst station...

I suppose I should report on my Toppling Goliath experience yesterday. Went down for their Mornin' Delight release (lotto/ticket event). It was obviously a madhouse. Lines were everywhere, not really organized well inside. One long line was actually 3 lines (to-go, reg drafts, special drafts that o...

Cowgirl wrote: ↑
Tue Aug 13 9:53 pm
She sounds hideous.

My first thought too when I saw the khaki pants. When my daughter worked at Target in high school she had a supervisor named Jake. I'm named him Jake from State Farm, now when we see him in the store we still call him that.

Boyd and Helgeson were the two that stumped me.

At least with the Boldy pick there are way less people saying WTF like they did when the Wild drafted Filip Johannson in 2018.

This past weekend I worked at Mankato Ribfest with having the Lancers take tickets and usher the reserved seating sections all three nights. 38 Special, Dwight Yoakam, and Vince Neil were the headliners each night. Quite the diverse line up in both bands and concert goers. I'm not a country fan but ...

gopherguy13 wrote: ↑
Sat Aug 03 11:14 am

Well that's fun...

I've read this story before....the last time he ended up leaving Minnesota for Florida when he couldn't get his starting job back after an injury.

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