Minnesota Masterpiece
Pregame in the Minnesota Masterpiece For my 29th birthday, Sam got me tickets to see the Minnesota Vikings play the Philadelphia Eagles at US Bank Stadium in Minneapolis on my birthday. It was my second ever pro football game, the other being a very memorable visit to Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts for the Patriots vs the Vikings in the 8th grade. That is a story unto itself for another time. For the sake of brevity, I am going to skip over the lead up, that included crossing the Dakotas in a white knuckle October blizzard that dumped forty four inches of snow and made both states nigh impassable for days. Needless to say, it was stressful. Not the driving in the snow so much as the potential that we may not be able to make it to the game, even with two days head start. But we made it. We wove into the busy, yet pleasant traffic of the Twin Cities. Maybe it is because I am such a fan of the sports teams, but it seems like I don’t mind Minneapolis traffi