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Eeyore writes:
> I would go a bit stronger than this and say that it's not atypical for kids that
> come from Duluth to the Twin Cities. I haven't ever been to the DECC, but the
> UMD fans I know here in Minneapolis are still bitter about Rob Stauber becoming a
> Gopher and are willing to bend your ear about it (even saying, "Stauber sucks,"
> rather loudly with little prompting). Other than Duluth fans about Gophers,
> though, I don't know of any similar occurences in the west.
Perhaps they're hung up on hockey players whose last name starts with 'S' that
go to play for the Gophers. :-)
According to UMD's website, one third of their student body comes from the Twin
Cities, only one quarter from northeastern Minnesota. Chances are that a
goodly portion of those berating Spehar for "betraying" them are Twin Cities
residents themselves.
-- Erik
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