Bill I am an avid reader of your columns, listener of your podcasts, and now thanks to 
you an avid listener to Adam Carolla too. Anyways you often talk about cities and states and their successful or unsuccessful era's. You have to my knowledge never mentioned Minnesota. We have had 4 major sports teams and a major college located in our metro area. If you take in to account the 4 major sports teams and the University of Minnesota football and basketball teams. I think we dominate the futility category. The Twins two world championships (1987 and 1991) are it!
you an avid listener to Adam Carolla too. Anyways you often talk about cities and states and their successful or unsuccessful era's. You have to my knowledge never mentioned Minnesota. We have had 4 major sports teams and a major college located in our metro area. If you take in to account the 4 major sports teams and the University of Minnesota football and basketball teams. I think we dominate the futility category. The Twins two world championships (1987 and 1991) are it! 
The Vikings have been here since 1961. No NFL championships, 4 lost super bowls, and numerous NFC championship losses. Including the loss to Atlanta in 1998 and the 41-0 loss to the NY Giants in 2001. Thrown in the love boat for good measures too.
Yes we have the Twins but let's not forget that our now deceased owner tried to contract the Twins a few years back. It is true they have been competitive this decade. But what about the 90's when they lost 90-100 games every year. Let's not forget we've also traded away Johan Santana, and let Tori Hunter leave in the past 2 years.
Look at the Timberwolves. They have advanced past the first round of the playoffs just once in 20 years. We have drafted and traded away Ray Allen, O.J. Mayo, and Brandon Roy. We gave you Kevin Garnett so your Celtics could win the NBA championship. If we didn't get lucky and draft KG we'd be looking at 20 seasons and no playoffs. Oh yeah we had the Lakers until 1961.
We are the state of hockey and have sold out every single wild exhibition, regular season, and playoff game. But we are not going in the right direction. Sure we had the North Stars who moved to Dallas of all places and won the Stanley Cup there.
We have the University of MN. Our football team hasn't been to the rose bowl in over 40 years. Our basketball team made it to the final four once, but had the records erased due to academic scandal. So do the math. Since 1961 we have had 148 Professional season and 2 championships. We haven't been to a league championship since 1991 in any sport.The gopher football team hasn't played on New Year's Day since 1961, and the basketball team hasn't won a National Championship since it's first game in 1895. So only you Bill can put the proper twist on this to let the world now our suffering. We don't have the curse of the bambino, or Bobby Layne. We don't have any curses or spells. Basically since 1961 we have dealt with it all. So being a 27 year old sports nut, it's been tough. So we need someone like you to help us find a way out of this sports abyss.
Thanks for your time.
Thanks for your time.
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