About This TwinCitiesMinnesotaBlog.com

I am using this blog to experiement with the the format, keep my writing skills honed to a razor sharp edge, to tell stories, and to share with perfect strangers some of my life and thoughts and places and things that I find interesting.

Throughout this blog, you’ll find hyperlinked references to the people or places that populate TwinCitiesMinnesotaBlog.com. I’ve approached the blog in this fashion for simple reasons of efficiency; it is far easier, for example, to describe a person once and refer to their profile thereafter than to describe them every time I mention them. To that end, I’ve compiled a list of the people and places you’ll find in this blog:

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Venues

These are the locations and venues in which this blog takes place:

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The Cast

The the following links are short vignettes on the people who populate this blog. The names, as Dragnet would have it, have been changed to protect the guilty.

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NFL Hall Of Fame Game

God bless America! I finally got my fix of real NFL football. It was the Hall of Fame game, a pre-season tradition that started I don’t know how many years ago but they’ve been broadcasting it for maybe a decade now, maybe less, but it has always been this early. As much as I love baseball, it has definitely lost the title of America’s game to football.

There is now a 24-hour NFL Network on cable; the NFL draft has become a huge media event; the Madden NFL football video game is a phenomenal success, far outselling it’s baseball counterparts, which, again, builds generations of fans. The NFL also does a far better job of marketing itself–especially to black youth. Major League Baseball has seen a steady decline in the number of black players. Finally, the NFL has structured their economics and draft so that at the beginning of any given season, any team has a legitimate chance of making it to the Super Bowl. That’s in glaring contrast to MLB, where teams like the Yankees and the Red Sox with their massive payrolls that allow them to buy all the talent they need to win a championship. That leave fans like those of the Twins despairing when they have to face large-market teams in the playoffs and their pitchers have to face All Star after All Star up and down their lineups.

So there’s just as much as a reason why the Yankees and the Red Sox are always in the playoffs as there is that I always feel the Vikings have decent chance of making the playoffs year in and year out.

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Onterrio Smith’s Webmaster

This is too hilarous.

The VIkings fan site Purple Dawgs has posted a series of email exchanges with the Webmaster for OnterrioSmith.com. In short, Smith’s Webmaster emailed the Purple Dawgs site asking for a link to OnterrioSmith.com and offering graphics they could use for the link.

The Purple Dawgs are no dummies, so they asked for a link back–a simple quid pro quo link exchange. Fair enough, right?

Not so fast. It seems apparent from the email that the Webmaster went back to Smith and his lawyers found something objectionable. The webmaster replied to the link request by saying they couldn’t do a link exhange because Smith’s lawyers weren’t comfortable linking because of some objectionable material on Purple Dawgs, that may include "references to illegal substances or activities."

The webmaster closed by saying, "If you would like us to bring any of this specific content to your attention, please let us know."

Smart Asses of the highest and most entertaining order, the owners of Purple Dawgs responded by saying they wouldn’t be linking to OnterrioSmith.com because due to certain activites they didn’t want their image associated with such a site and therefore would not be comfortable linking to it.

They closed  with this beautiful zinger: "If you would like us to these activites to your attention, please let us know."

The activities they refer to, of course, were those that requried the use of Onterrio Smith’s Whizzinator.

Sweet.

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