Thank You, Doofus

Welcome to the Dinky Gopher Nation - a largely random blog source for information, (stupid) commentary and (stupid) criticism of and about University of Minnesota athletics.

About the name ... Credit must be given to Star Tribune columnist Patrick Reusse and/or whichever poor flunky writes headlines for the sports section. Just when I was about to go with a plain vanilla "Gopher Sports Blog", BAM! My man Reusse comes through with the headline "There's a Gopher Nation? If so, it's a dinky one".

Suggesting that he hoped to duplicate the accomplishments of Childress was not Brewster's lone gaffe. He also said he planned to take "the Gopher Nation" to a Rose Bowl.

You should know this, Coach: The Red Sox have a Nation. The Buckeyes have a Nation.

What we have here, Tim, is Dinkytown. It's both an on-campus business district and an apt description for the number of people who care intensely about Gophers football after four decades of nothingness.

We are the Dinky Gopher Nation. Feel the love. It may be the withered, bitter kind of love you'd get from a grandparent who's been sucking on lemons for a dozen consecutive years, but it's still love. We even have some for you, Patrick Reusse.