Wednesday, October 25, 2023
Interesting times for Minnesota sports....
It was kind of a wild weekend for football in Minnesota.
First, on Saturday, the Minnesota Burrowing Gophers beat Iowa in Iowa City for the first time since 1999, in a game that ended with a very weird play. Trailing by two, a kid named Cooper (pictured above) returned a punt for Iowa for over fifty yards and crucial touchdown with only a minute and change left in the game.
But then a flag came out.
The call was that Cooper had made an "invalid fair catch signal" by waving his left hand in a circular motion at waist level-- which was straight-up goofy looking, but I'm not sure anyone thought he was signaling a fair catch, which is usually done by holding your left hand up high.
Then on Monday night the Vikings, who were 1-4 coming into the game, beat the San Francisco 49ers-- a team with only one loss and a lot of talent, viewed as one of the very best in the league. That game featured a game-winning score in which Vikings receiver Camryn Bynum just wrestled the ball away from a 49er who had caught it and then ran into the end zone.
We don't get that kind of weekend often, so we are going to savor it!
