Minnesota Sports Has A Culture Problem
I love Minnesota. I was born here, and I was raised here. I spend my summers on lakeside porches, kicking back with Grain Belts, while watching the Minnesota Twins quest for a third World Series title. I spend my winters holed up in my living room under a mountain of blankets, watching Dalvin Cook and the Vikings make strides up the gridiron. I love Minnesota, and its teams, down to my very blood. But Minnesota has a culture problem. Look, I get it. When the professional organizations in your state have been under threat of relocation (or straight up relocated), never quite good enough to take down a championship, or otherwise completely dreadful for over a half-century - it's easy for a sports market to find itself incredibly insecure. DON’T CONFUSE LOVE WITH INSECURITY That's where the root of this problem lies. Insecurity. We are very, very, insecure. And insecurity is a very bad look. Norm Green tore all of our hearts out in 1993 when he br...