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SoMnFan -> RE: Gopher Basketball (Mens) (2/2/2013 8:21:10 AM)
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My favorite "Barn" memory
Loaded up our HS BB teams on a schoolbus in 1979, headed to the Cities for a 3-hour trip to see the Gophs play Mich State in their reg season finale.
Snowing heavily. headed back and started the crawl. Spent hours creeping along, getting out dozens of times to push vehicles off the road so we coudl keep going.
Finally got stuck half-way back. Shuttled us into town with snowplows. Spent the next two days in a small-town HS gym that Franklin, Mn graciously opened up for us.
48 straight hours of dodgeball, with a couple hours of sleep on tumbling mats thrown in. One of the worst March snowstroms ever.
Mostly pissed because the plan was to get back that night and watch Herb Brooks and the Gophs win another national hockey title.
We sat in the nose-bleeds that day ... always amazed me no one ever died up there. It seemed like it was a sheer cliff up there. With a thin yellow rope for a railing. [:D]
If that building could talk ... some pretty great memories in there for many MN kids.
Decades ago, it was every kids goal to play there one day.
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