The Vikings-Packers Thing
Even with both teams stinking it up big time this year, a game between the Minnesota Vikings and the Green Bay Packers is still a big deal out here. Minneapolis is only about a half hour from the Wisconsin border, so plenty of people living here grew up as cheeseheads. One guy at my work, who commutes from Wisconsin but whom I didn’t even realize was a big football fan, is wearing Green Bay paraphernalia all week for the game on Sunday. As great as the Pats were the whole time we were living in Providence, Pats fans don’t have a single must-beat rival the way Vikings fans do (I guess the Bills come closest). I guess that makes sense. It’s living in the shadow of a (traditionally, though not this season) popular, successful team that gets Vikings fans so pumped up, and living in a town surrounded by folks that hate your team that makes Minneapolitan Green Bay fans get so pumped up.
posted by James at 11:17 AM
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Minnefabulous... nutrea... and now Minneapolitan. Come on, you're just making up all these words, aren't you?
No way! And it's "nutria." Speaking of which, I thought I saw one on our lawn the other night, but it was only about as big as Mojo, so B said it couldn't have been what she saw -- too small. So I think it was just a opossum.
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