Going through our Christmas letters for the past several years, I have truly come to appreciate how fast the time goes. It could not possibly be 11 years ago when I sat in this very spot to tell you all about Collin & Adrienne’s first day of Kindergarten, but here we are just the same. A blink of the eye later, our babies are driving cars and looking at colleges. A word of advice to all our friends with kids younger than ours: enjoy every minute you get with them.
After a couple of unsuccessful attempts, Collin got his drivers license in April and has been on the go ever since. He is somewhat more “adventuresome” behind the wheel than his kid sister (who got her license in September). We have not yet found a highway (not even up here) that he’s scared to drive on, so driving to nearby Edina to his job at the pizza place is no big deal. He has begun looking over schools that offer a strong Engineering program, and oddly enough, there seems to be an inverse relationship between the proximity of the school to our home and Collin’s perceived quality of it.
Ever since learning to knit at the age of 9, Adrienne has really developed An uncanny knack for creating something out of nothing, whether with knitting or crocheting needles, or the sewing machine she bought at a garage sale this year. She joined the Theater group last year at school and has become a very valuable member of that team in the preparation of all the costumes. She is a very talented young lady, and she’s thinking about a career in teaching, which I think would be right up her alley.
A moment ago, Connie came in with a grocery bag chock full of marshmallows, and from this I can conclude that (1) there was a big sale on marshmallows at Cub Foods, and (2) it’s almost time for her to make her world famous popcorn cake, just one of the many sweet treats she whips up this time of year. The 2011-12 school year is her 10th at St. Louis Park Schools, but she always takes a little time off between Thanksgiving and Christmas to whip up treats for family, friends and co-workers: cookies, peanut butter balls, fudge and 9 or 10 popcorn cakes. And what a treat it is for me to come home after a long day, walk inside to see the tree lit up, hear Christmas music playing, and smell all that!
After a 4-year break, we rounded up the gang in late June and headed back to Lake Owen in northern Wisconsin. There were 16 Woods and Reyersons altogether, ranging in age from 8 to 71. The fishing was good, the weather was incredible, the Leinenkugels were ice cold, and my phone didn’t work up there at all, so it was a “dream vacation” no matter how you look at it. In my opinion, there is nothing better in this world - and I mean NOTHING - than a week at the lake.
Sort of an up & down ride for the Iowa Hawkeyes this fall, including an embarrassing 22-21 loss to Minnesota where they coughed up an 11-point lead in the last 8 minutes. My cousin Joe and his 11-year old boy Brady came to town and saw the game with me and my crazy Colombian neighbor Justo, who has adopted the Hawks as his favorite American football team. We walked out of that stadium with the rest of the Hawkeye fans shaking our heads in disbelief, but we had a good time just the same, and Joe & Brady got a big kick out of Justo.
We always come to Iowa for Christmas, but at Thanksgiving, Iowa comes to US! Nobody likes to cook for a crowd quite as much as Connie, and my folks are all too willing to let her scratch that itch every November, and it is always fun having them up for a few nights. As for our Christmas plans, we don’t get to Iowa as often as we should, so we plan to make the very most of this trip: 3 nights in Oelwein (starting 12/22), to Webster on Christmas Day and 3 nights down there before heading back home to ring in the New Year here in town. Keep your fingers crossed for good weather!
Well, that‘s our year on one sheet of paper! If you’re ever in town, be sure to stop by. Our house is just a few minutes from downtown Minneapolis and we love to have visitors. We hope this letter finds you in good health and good spirits, and we wish you all a happy and safe holiday.
Warren, Connie, Collin & Adrienne
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Sunday, February 20, 2011
What's Your Beef with Teachers, Warren?
For the record: I have no ax to grind with teachers. Teaching is a noble profession. NOBLE. Some of my closest friends are teachers. We NEED teachers. I also have very high respect for policemen and firemen. In fact, I have no problem with anybody out there making an honest buck. I do, however, have a huge problem with the incestuous alliance between the government & public sector unions, and have recently found myself paying close attention to what’s going on in Wisconsin under the watch of new governor Scott Walker.
AFSCME: 1.6 million members.
American Federation of Teachers: 1.5 million.
National Education Association: 3.2 million.
Barking about billionaire CEOs is good watercooler talk, but with these three unions alone, here are over 6 million people represented by public sector unions, and over the last 50 years or so, public sector unions have conspired with our friends in Washington to form a perfectly legal way to help themselves to YOUR DOUGH.
It sounds innocent enough: Boy meets union, boy joins union, boy pays union dues, union takes on management, better lives for union members. This story has been written millions of times over the last 100+ years. What is incestuous about that, Warren? Well, the dynamic is different when government plays the role of management, and here’s how:
When faced with union negotiations, private companies bargain with their own money. With public sector unions, the government bargains with OUR money. What motivation does the government have to go toe to toe with a union? There’s no earnings per share number they have to hit. What government official loses their job if they overspend? Nobody. They just tax us to fill the gap. Or simply allow the gap to grow (the term “unfunded pension liabilities” is as simple as it sounds, folks) and let the next guy worry about it. The result is larger salaries, better benefits and pension packages for public sector workers than people performing similar work in the private sector, and an increased burden for all taxpayers, either immediately or down the road.
It should surprise nobody that the government doesn’t negotiate as hard as the private sector, because it turns out that caving into the unions is good politics. Public sector unions dump millions into election campaigns (all but about 2% of it to the Democratic Party), so giving the unions what they want when they want it will help come re-election time, and in Washington, the point of all of it is to keep getting re-elected. That’s the incestuous part. Term limits, anyone?
Back to my original point: we NEED teachers. We need policemen and firemen. We needed them before they unionized, and we need them now. What we DON'T need is to be bullied by their union leadership to keep their members whole while the rest of us have to live with LESS. We have grown weary of the “kabuki theater” of so-called negotiations between unions and the government where everybody wins except the only party with no seat at the table: the American taxpayer.
With the Democrats safely tucked away in an undisclosed location somewhere in Illinois, Governor Walker is being painted as the villian in Wisconsin, and that is ridiculous. It would be WAY easier just to make a deal with the union and let the unfunded pension liability grow unchecked. After all, it won't be HIS problem when the pension fund runs completely out of money years from now. Walker is showing TRUE LEADERSHIP taking this on, and in my opinion, a discussion over deficit reduction that does not address the collective bargaining power of public sector unions is not a discussion worth having.
AFSCME: 1.6 million members.
American Federation of Teachers: 1.5 million.
National Education Association: 3.2 million.
Barking about billionaire CEOs is good watercooler talk, but with these three unions alone, here are over 6 million people represented by public sector unions, and over the last 50 years or so, public sector unions have conspired with our friends in Washington to form a perfectly legal way to help themselves to YOUR DOUGH.
It sounds innocent enough: Boy meets union, boy joins union, boy pays union dues, union takes on management, better lives for union members. This story has been written millions of times over the last 100+ years. What is incestuous about that, Warren? Well, the dynamic is different when government plays the role of management, and here’s how:
When faced with union negotiations, private companies bargain with their own money. With public sector unions, the government bargains with OUR money. What motivation does the government have to go toe to toe with a union? There’s no earnings per share number they have to hit. What government official loses their job if they overspend? Nobody. They just tax us to fill the gap. Or simply allow the gap to grow (the term “unfunded pension liabilities” is as simple as it sounds, folks) and let the next guy worry about it. The result is larger salaries, better benefits and pension packages for public sector workers than people performing similar work in the private sector, and an increased burden for all taxpayers, either immediately or down the road.
It should surprise nobody that the government doesn’t negotiate as hard as the private sector, because it turns out that caving into the unions is good politics. Public sector unions dump millions into election campaigns (all but about 2% of it to the Democratic Party), so giving the unions what they want when they want it will help come re-election time, and in Washington, the point of all of it is to keep getting re-elected. That’s the incestuous part. Term limits, anyone?
Back to my original point: we NEED teachers. We need policemen and firemen. We needed them before they unionized, and we need them now. What we DON'T need is to be bullied by their union leadership to keep their members whole while the rest of us have to live with LESS. We have grown weary of the “kabuki theater” of so-called negotiations between unions and the government where everybody wins except the only party with no seat at the table: the American taxpayer.
With the Democrats safely tucked away in an undisclosed location somewhere in Illinois, Governor Walker is being painted as the villian in Wisconsin, and that is ridiculous. It would be WAY easier just to make a deal with the union and let the unfunded pension liability grow unchecked. After all, it won't be HIS problem when the pension fund runs completely out of money years from now. Walker is showing TRUE LEADERSHIP taking this on, and in my opinion, a discussion over deficit reduction that does not address the collective bargaining power of public sector unions is not a discussion worth having.
Saturday, January 1, 2011
Great Moments in Iowa Hawkeye History
(Reader Warning: If you are not a fan of the Iowa Hawkeyes, you may actually die of boredom by reading this)
Iowa 30, LSU 25
Capital One Bowl
January 1, 2005
Orlando, FL
This is the only bowl game on the list, and there’s a reason for that. With the exception of the big one, bowl games are little more than exhibition games designed to extend the college football season and give us all something to watch when the NFL isn’t on. This year, there were 35 bowl games, the majority of which will be all but forgotten by all but the most rabid fans of the teams who participated. Every now and then, however, two good teams hook up in a neutral site in late December / early January, and treat us to a game that folks will remember. The 2005 Capital One Bowl was one of those games.
New Years Day is when all the trash talking between the Big 10 and the SEC takes a day off so the teams can settle things on the field. I was not a big Nick Saban fan (still am not), so there was a houseful of heartbroken Hawkeye fans (including my aunt and uncle) when LSU scored late in the 4th quarter to take a 25-24 lead. As the seconds melted off the clock in the game’s final minute, I was furious at the Hawks’ clock mis-management, and as the Hawks lined up for what I figured to be the game’s final play, I was terrified at the prospect of the game ending with 2 Iowa timeouts left on the board.
Eleven…ten…nine….
Quarterback Drew Tate took the snap and 5 Hawkeye receivers streaked downfield. Darting between LSU pass rushers, Tate set his feet and spotted Warren Holloway, a senior with 29 career catches and no TDs who somehow managed to get behind the LSU prevent defense, and let it fly, and even then, I was asking myself “Why didn’t Ferentz use a timeout earlier in the drive?”.
Six….five…four….
Almost as if he had done this 20-30 times in the previous 4 years, Holloway snatched the ball out of the air at the 15, and outran 2 LSU defenders to the end zone. Touchdown Iowa, clock reads :00, HAWKS WIN, and a guy named Warren whom moments ago I had never heard of was the hero of the game!
What was LSU defense thinking letting a receiver get between them and the end zone? Here it is years later, and fans of both teams still ask that question, but as the Hawks lined up to kneel down for the point after touchdown they did not need, we didn’t care. The Hawks had beaten LSU, the Big 10 had beaten the SEC, and our little house in Minnesota was literally shaking as we jumped up and down and screamed the Iowa Fight Song.
Iowa 81, Georgetown 80March 16, 1980
NCAA Mens Basketball Tournament, East Regional Final
The Spectrum, Philadelphia PA
The “Fabulous Few” earned an improbable Final Four trip to Indianapolis, overcoming a 10-point halftime deficit, making 17 of their final 21 shots and going 15-15 from the free-throw line. The winner was Steve Waite's 3-point play in the closing seconds.
The Hawkeyes’ spectacular play throughout the 1979-80 season in spite of injuries to key players (including star point guard Ronnie Lester, who missed 15 regular season games that year) helped them earn the nickname “The Fabulous Few”. Without Lester and freshman Mark Gannon, who was lost for the season in a game at Michigan, Coach Lute Olsen usually went with 6 guys: sharpshooting swingman Vince Brookins (#32), “twin towers” Waite (52) and Steve Krafcisin (54), defender extraordinaire Kevin Boyle (40), freshman Bobby Hansen (24), and backup point guard Kenny Arnold (30).
The Hawks started the season with 10 straight wins and a top 10 national ranking, but struggled with injuries to finish 5th in the Big 10 with a 10-8 record. Seeded #5 in the East Regional, they disposed of Virginia Commonwealth, North Carolina State and top seed Syracuse to get to the Regional Final.
As a young Hawkeye fan, the 1980 Tournament was my first real taste of March Madness, perhaps before they even started calling it March Madness, and for a couple of weekends in March some 30 years ago, the Hawks were indeed fabulous, and I fell in love with Iowa Basketball watching them with my dad in our downstairs den (with that ridiculous orange shag carpet).
Iowa 9, Michigan 7October 17, 1981
Michigan Stadium, Ann Arbor MI
This one looked like a laugher on paper: the Hawks traveling to Ann Arbor, where they had won only once since 1924. In fact, none of the networks even bothered to televise what promised to be a convincing win for the Maize & Blue, but just 5 weeks after the jaw-dropping 10-7 upset of Nebraska at Kinnick, the Hawks took their act on the road and shocked another national football power in front of 100,000 hostile fans without scoring a touchdown.
Bob Brooks brought the game into our living room as Dad and I listened in awe. Tommy Nichol’s third field goal of the game provided the winning margin, and Iowa’s suffocating defense, led by Andre Tippett and Larry Station, held mighty Michigan to one touchdown. The win improved their record to 5-1, their best start since 1960. The Hawks would go on to earn a share of the Big 10 Championship and their first trip to Pasadena since the 1958 season.
After 19 straight years without a winning season, a new era began on a warm September afternoon in Iowa City when the Hawks shocked Nebraska, and 5 weeks later, for the first time in a generation, the entire college football world was paying attention to the Iowa Hawkeyes.
Iowa 12, Michigan 10October 19, 1985
Kinnick Stadium, Iowa City
In a battle of teams ranked #1 (Iowa) and #2 (Michigan) in the nation, 4 Rob Houghtlin field goals, including a 29-yarder as time ran out, were enough to beat Bo Schembechler and the mighty Wolverines under temporary lights installed at Kinnick for this nationally televised game, which started at 2:30 p.m..
This is the only televised game on the list where I did not actually see the ending live. Brent Musberger and Ara Parsegian had the call on CBS, but I had to work the 5 to close shift at Burger King that night and was forced to settle for Bob Brooks’ call on the radio. The whole place went crazy when Houghlin’s kick from the right hash mark split the uprights, and my feet barely toughed the floor that night as I prepared Whopper after Whopper for happy Hawkeye fans who saw history made in person. The Hawks would win 4 of the next 5 for a share of the Big 10 title and their second Rose Bowl in 5 years.
Iowa 15, Michigan State 13October 24, 2009
Spartan Stadium, East Lansing MI
It was a hard-hitting game of nothing but field goals, 3 by Iowa’s Daniel Murray and 2 by Michigan State’s Brett Swenson, until Michigan State’s Blair White hauled in a 30-yard touchdown pass from Kirk Cousins to give Sparty Spartan a 13-9 lead late in the 4th quarter, and the Hawkeyes’ perfect season was in jeopardy.
My neighbor Justo, a transplanted Columbian who has developed a deep appreciation for American football, helped keep me calm on the couch as I tried to come to grips with the fact that a guy named Blair was about to end our dream season. Seriously, who names their boy BLAIR? Justo handed me a New Glarus Spotted Cow longneck, claiming that it was good luck beer, and I was desperate enough to actually think a beer brewed in Wisconsin could help a football team from Iowa.
As we sipped on our Spotted Cows, Justo and I watched Ricky Stanzi lead the Hawkeye offense onto the field. They were 70 yards from the end zone and a field goal would not help them. 1:32 left on the clock.
Three Stanzi completions (16 yards to Marvin McNutt, 21 yards to Trey Stross, 16 yards to Derrell Johnson-Koulianos) moved the ball to the Spartan 15, and a controversial holding call have the Hawks a 1st and goal on the 7. Three incomplete passes later, it was 4th and goal when Stanzi found McNutt on a slant pattern. Touchdown Iowa, no time left on the clock, HAWKS WIN.
The win improved Iowa to 8-0. Their bid for perfection would end 2 weeks later in Iowa City, but they finished 10-2 and earned a bid in the Orange Bowl. The McNutt catch in East Lansing was an incredible finish to one of the best college football games I have ever seen.
Iowa 55, Minnesota 0November 22, 2008
HHH Metrodome, Minneapolis, MN
Most of the games on this list were in doubt until the last few seconds, but not this one. The last Gopher game in Metrodome history was over not long after the coin toss. Tailback Shonn Greene, who would finish 6th in 2008 Heisman Trophy balloting, shredded the Gopher defense en route to his 12 consecutive game with 100+ yards. It was 27-0 at halftime, and by the time it was 41-0, the Hump was half empty and only about 20,000 delirious Hawkeye fans remained.
It’s the only game on this list I saw in person. In fact, Collin and I were in the front row, right behind the Iowa bench, and were right in the middle of it all when the Hawks paraded around the perimeter of the Metrodome with Floyd of Rosedale. We high-fived all the guys and Collin even got to touch Floyd! Never had I had more fun at a sporting event. 5 weeks later, the Hawks would notch only their 3rd January win since 1959 with a 31-10 victory over South Carolina in the Outback Bowl.
Capital One Bowl
January 1, 2005
Orlando, FL
This is the only bowl game on the list, and there’s a reason for that. With the exception of the big one, bowl games are little more than exhibition games designed to extend the college football season and give us all something to watch when the NFL isn’t on. This year, there were 35 bowl games, the majority of which will be all but forgotten by all but the most rabid fans of the teams who participated. Every now and then, however, two good teams hook up in a neutral site in late December / early January, and treat us to a game that folks will remember. The 2005 Capital One Bowl was one of those games.
New Years Day is when all the trash talking between the Big 10 and the SEC takes a day off so the teams can settle things on the field. I was not a big Nick Saban fan (still am not), so there was a houseful of heartbroken Hawkeye fans (including my aunt and uncle) when LSU scored late in the 4th quarter to take a 25-24 lead. As the seconds melted off the clock in the game’s final minute, I was furious at the Hawks’ clock mis-management, and as the Hawks lined up for what I figured to be the game’s final play, I was terrified at the prospect of the game ending with 2 Iowa timeouts left on the board.
Eleven…ten…nine….
Quarterback Drew Tate took the snap and 5 Hawkeye receivers streaked downfield. Darting between LSU pass rushers, Tate set his feet and spotted Warren Holloway, a senior with 29 career catches and no TDs who somehow managed to get behind the LSU prevent defense, and let it fly, and even then, I was asking myself “Why didn’t Ferentz use a timeout earlier in the drive?”.
Six….five…four….
Almost as if he had done this 20-30 times in the previous 4 years, Holloway snatched the ball out of the air at the 15, and outran 2 LSU defenders to the end zone. Touchdown Iowa, clock reads :00, HAWKS WIN, and a guy named Warren whom moments ago I had never heard of was the hero of the game!
What was LSU defense thinking letting a receiver get between them and the end zone? Here it is years later, and fans of both teams still ask that question, but as the Hawks lined up to kneel down for the point after touchdown they did not need, we didn’t care. The Hawks had beaten LSU, the Big 10 had beaten the SEC, and our little house in Minnesota was literally shaking as we jumped up and down and screamed the Iowa Fight Song.
Iowa 81, Georgetown 80March 16, 1980
NCAA Mens Basketball Tournament, East Regional Final
The Spectrum, Philadelphia PA
The “Fabulous Few” earned an improbable Final Four trip to Indianapolis, overcoming a 10-point halftime deficit, making 17 of their final 21 shots and going 15-15 from the free-throw line. The winner was Steve Waite's 3-point play in the closing seconds.
The Hawkeyes’ spectacular play throughout the 1979-80 season in spite of injuries to key players (including star point guard Ronnie Lester, who missed 15 regular season games that year) helped them earn the nickname “The Fabulous Few”. Without Lester and freshman Mark Gannon, who was lost for the season in a game at Michigan, Coach Lute Olsen usually went with 6 guys: sharpshooting swingman Vince Brookins (#32), “twin towers” Waite (52) and Steve Krafcisin (54), defender extraordinaire Kevin Boyle (40), freshman Bobby Hansen (24), and backup point guard Kenny Arnold (30).
The Hawks started the season with 10 straight wins and a top 10 national ranking, but struggled with injuries to finish 5th in the Big 10 with a 10-8 record. Seeded #5 in the East Regional, they disposed of Virginia Commonwealth, North Carolina State and top seed Syracuse to get to the Regional Final.
As a young Hawkeye fan, the 1980 Tournament was my first real taste of March Madness, perhaps before they even started calling it March Madness, and for a couple of weekends in March some 30 years ago, the Hawks were indeed fabulous, and I fell in love with Iowa Basketball watching them with my dad in our downstairs den (with that ridiculous orange shag carpet).
Iowa 9, Michigan 7October 17, 1981
Michigan Stadium, Ann Arbor MI
This one looked like a laugher on paper: the Hawks traveling to Ann Arbor, where they had won only once since 1924. In fact, none of the networks even bothered to televise what promised to be a convincing win for the Maize & Blue, but just 5 weeks after the jaw-dropping 10-7 upset of Nebraska at Kinnick, the Hawks took their act on the road and shocked another national football power in front of 100,000 hostile fans without scoring a touchdown.
Bob Brooks brought the game into our living room as Dad and I listened in awe. Tommy Nichol’s third field goal of the game provided the winning margin, and Iowa’s suffocating defense, led by Andre Tippett and Larry Station, held mighty Michigan to one touchdown. The win improved their record to 5-1, their best start since 1960. The Hawks would go on to earn a share of the Big 10 Championship and their first trip to Pasadena since the 1958 season.
After 19 straight years without a winning season, a new era began on a warm September afternoon in Iowa City when the Hawks shocked Nebraska, and 5 weeks later, for the first time in a generation, the entire college football world was paying attention to the Iowa Hawkeyes.
Iowa 12, Michigan 10October 19, 1985
Kinnick Stadium, Iowa City
In a battle of teams ranked #1 (Iowa) and #2 (Michigan) in the nation, 4 Rob Houghtlin field goals, including a 29-yarder as time ran out, were enough to beat Bo Schembechler and the mighty Wolverines under temporary lights installed at Kinnick for this nationally televised game, which started at 2:30 p.m..
This is the only televised game on the list where I did not actually see the ending live. Brent Musberger and Ara Parsegian had the call on CBS, but I had to work the 5 to close shift at Burger King that night and was forced to settle for Bob Brooks’ call on the radio. The whole place went crazy when Houghlin’s kick from the right hash mark split the uprights, and my feet barely toughed the floor that night as I prepared Whopper after Whopper for happy Hawkeye fans who saw history made in person. The Hawks would win 4 of the next 5 for a share of the Big 10 title and their second Rose Bowl in 5 years.
Iowa 15, Michigan State 13October 24, 2009
Spartan Stadium, East Lansing MI
It was a hard-hitting game of nothing but field goals, 3 by Iowa’s Daniel Murray and 2 by Michigan State’s Brett Swenson, until Michigan State’s Blair White hauled in a 30-yard touchdown pass from Kirk Cousins to give Sparty Spartan a 13-9 lead late in the 4th quarter, and the Hawkeyes’ perfect season was in jeopardy.
My neighbor Justo, a transplanted Columbian who has developed a deep appreciation for American football, helped keep me calm on the couch as I tried to come to grips with the fact that a guy named Blair was about to end our dream season. Seriously, who names their boy BLAIR? Justo handed me a New Glarus Spotted Cow longneck, claiming that it was good luck beer, and I was desperate enough to actually think a beer brewed in Wisconsin could help a football team from Iowa.
As we sipped on our Spotted Cows, Justo and I watched Ricky Stanzi lead the Hawkeye offense onto the field. They were 70 yards from the end zone and a field goal would not help them. 1:32 left on the clock.
Three Stanzi completions (16 yards to Marvin McNutt, 21 yards to Trey Stross, 16 yards to Derrell Johnson-Koulianos) moved the ball to the Spartan 15, and a controversial holding call have the Hawks a 1st and goal on the 7. Three incomplete passes later, it was 4th and goal when Stanzi found McNutt on a slant pattern. Touchdown Iowa, no time left on the clock, HAWKS WIN.
The win improved Iowa to 8-0. Their bid for perfection would end 2 weeks later in Iowa City, but they finished 10-2 and earned a bid in the Orange Bowl. The McNutt catch in East Lansing was an incredible finish to one of the best college football games I have ever seen.
Iowa 55, Minnesota 0November 22, 2008
HHH Metrodome, Minneapolis, MN
Most of the games on this list were in doubt until the last few seconds, but not this one. The last Gopher game in Metrodome history was over not long after the coin toss. Tailback Shonn Greene, who would finish 6th in 2008 Heisman Trophy balloting, shredded the Gopher defense en route to his 12 consecutive game with 100+ yards. It was 27-0 at halftime, and by the time it was 41-0, the Hump was half empty and only about 20,000 delirious Hawkeye fans remained.
It’s the only game on this list I saw in person. In fact, Collin and I were in the front row, right behind the Iowa bench, and were right in the middle of it all when the Hawks paraded around the perimeter of the Metrodome with Floyd of Rosedale. We high-fived all the guys and Collin even got to touch Floyd! Never had I had more fun at a sporting event. 5 weeks later, the Hawks would notch only their 3rd January win since 1959 with a 31-10 victory over South Carolina in the Outback Bowl.
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