And they literally just announced a show in Des Moines the next day. One of the couples planning on going lives in Des Moines, so I’d imagine we pivot that direction.
Gonna see them with Dave Simmonet doing a Pheasant’s Forever benefit at a relatively intimate theatre in Minneapolis in February.
They’ve never been afraid of the northern plains in winter (seen them in both Minneapolis and Lincoln in February over the years) and it’s just another reason I fucking love these guys. It’s almost like they know their audience gets real busy in Fall and Spring
I have a fake tooth from a tractor tire incident as a child. Our local dentist kept insisting that instead of having a permanent fake drilled into my jawbone, we keep trying a less invasive fake that was bonded to the back of the other teeth. After the third time it broke on regular food, and he tried to suggest the same procedure that failed a bunch of times, my old man told him to fuck off and we went and got a permanent installation that's had no issues 20+ years in.
Dude just wanted to keep me coming through the door every 3 months.
Minneapolis/St Paul is fantastic on many fronts, but U of M is a shitty college sports experience. The stadium is pretty small, the campus is very urban, and the Gophers merely get a shrug from the locals.
It's a really nice classic college town. I don't know anything about Starkville, but when Texas was in the Big 12 it seemed like 90% of UT fans who came to games there (and especially the ones who posted about it here) really enjoyed it.
Iowa's much wealthier than Mississippi (for now) and that difference alone matters.
The way OSU fans have handled this is a reminder how much I enjoy their fanbase, and how they're (along with KSU) basically the same exact people we are.
I can tolerate whatever stupid future of this sport dumps on our heads if trips to Stillwater and Manhattan remain part of the equation, and it sure looks like our 3 universities are going to end up in the same basket for eternity for better or worse.