This was a fittingly frigid finish for Minnesota’s two year stint outdoors at the University of Minnesota’s TCF Bank Stadium during construction of the new covered downtown stadium. For the first au naturel postseason game here since the NFC championship game in 1976, the grizzled coach of that team, Bud Grant, served as an honorary captain. He strolled out for the coin flip in a Vikings cap and a purple short sleeved polo shirt, looking ready for a round of golf.
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If Red Badgro could play professional football with a healthy weight in 1927 and live until 95, then good football doesn’t actually require players to be morbidly obese, dependent on drugs, and inflicting brain damage on each other. Whether it’s hype from the fans needing a new record that requires drugs to nfl team jerseys achieve, or it’s the NFL jockeying for more excitement and more money coming in, we’ve changed to an unhealthy direction and all the money in the world can’t disguise it.
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