That is true. My grampa had his hip replaced, and he recovered fast too. Just like with AP, Gramps lost a step but is still feared and a power to be reckoned with on the shuffleboard court..:P

Taylor is a great guy if you ever get achance to meet him, but he's the reason for the T-Wolves position. His loyalty to his employees is and has been the T-Wovles downfall. McHale stayed about 6 seasons too longbecause Taylor wouldn't fire him. They always had a "heart to heart" talk after each season and McHale could talk Taylor into 1 more season...and 1 more season. When Taylor finally pulled the trigger it didn't make too much of a difference.

KG, now Kahn....

In professional Sports it's eat or be eaten, and you need to be able to fire your friends if it's in the best interest of the club....that's something Taylor can't do.

You mean after John Gagliardi...

That's a good thing. Most MN fans prefer to forget about what McHale did in MN.

"...he "had no idea how to handle it, he had no training, he had no experience, he didn't know what he was doing."

What training do you need to make sure boys are not being molested in your team's facilities?

It's sad that over 40 years of coaching are erased because Paterno "didn't know what he was doing". he was god on that campus, he didn't have to know what he was doing, he just had to do it.

When your expectations are low, "Light years" isn't hard to accomplish.

Did you bother to stop and see his tag? Maybe he had a HI tag too and was making the same drive as you. Just because you were in MN doesn't mean you were talking to a guy from MN now does it? You were proof of that...however, it wouldn't surprise me if it was a guy from MN. I've lived here for 18 years, and I am in awe how some of the people here. When you think you've heard and seen it all, they will surprise you. They have some of the worst drivers here.

Here in MN, there was a huge fight about how to fund a stadium for the Vikings. For the most part, they solved it, but no efforts are being made to solve the funding issue for the next stadium the Vikings will need in 25 to 40 years, or any of the other pro teams as well. We will have to go thru this whole song and dance again. We need to solve future stadium funding issues before there is a need to build one. This will remove the gun to the head of the public that the owners use and end the threats that unless the public funds the new stadium, they will take their team and leave. If they move, fine, but their money stays just incase another team from the same league is brought it to replace the one that left, and help pay for their facility (see North Stars and The Wild).

Require each team that uses public money to build a new facility to put money into an account every year to help pay for the next stadium. Before they sign one check to the players, they need to put money into that account. Hypothetically, the team contributes the first $20million from their gross revenue each year and the public contributes $10million per year, and an annual increase at the same rate the salary cap increases andor inflation. And require the teams that After the initial payment is made, 50% of the first $10million of net profit, and 25% of the next $10million in net profits and 10% of the remaining profits be contributed to that account too. After you tack on the interest made from that account, it will result in a large portion of the stadium already being paid for when it comes time to build a new one. Why make our grandchildren solve a problem that we can solve ourselves?

The owners can cry about how some of the teams don't make a profit, but If an owner of one of the teams of the most popular sports in America that has the most revenue can't make a profit with the profit sharing, TV revenue/rights, advertising, licensing of NFL Products and the money at the gate, and other directly and indirectly revenue streams, then maybe they shouldn't be owning a NFL team.

There are probably teams that desperately need public money to stay in business, then prove it. Open the books for the public to see and require an annual audit. Not only open the books for the team, but for direct and indirect sources of income from the NFL, and their other businesses. Maybe the owners don't see an area where they are not maximizing profits but a member of the general public might see it and point it out to them.

If the NFL owners expect the local/state goverments to be a partner and pay for part (if not all) of a new stadium, then they should make the local/state governments a partner on ownership of the team.

If NFL owners expect the local/state governments to help pay for part (if`

It's great to see a fellow kid from South Dakota do well. Eric Piatkowski, Adam Vinatieri, Chad Greenway, Brock Lesnar and Mike Miller. We don't see too many, but when we do, we stand behind them. I hope it's not the end of his career, but if it is, it's something to be proud of and we are proud of him.

Ainge and Rivers both owe their jobs to Kevin McHale. McHale took half the Celts in the wally szczerbiak trade, and then a few years later, took the other half in the KG trade. It would have been hard to not have success when Allen and KG arrived. I am not saying Rivers isn't a good coach, but Rivers probably wouldn't be around much longer to prove how good of a coach he could be. Ainge was on the Verge of being run out of town and unless he won a championship when he did, he would have been.

They were good because they had a great farm system, and developed the players and Ryan was the main reason behind that. He has big shoes to fill, and unless his next replacement has immediate and prolonged success, they will be viewed as a failure.

I take it you've never been to the Twin Cities before.

It's covered but open air stadium. It will be still be cold as every MN winter inside the stadium, just without the snow and the rain.

That's a misleading statement. While he has only played in all 16 regular season games twice, he only missed 3 games in his first 4 season, and has played in 73 out of 80 games in 5 years (14 in 2007, 16 in 2008, 16 in 2009, 15 in 2010, and 12 in 2011). By most team's standards, that is far from being "unhealthy".

They next AP? They think that Trent Richardson is going to fumble alot?

Don't you mean "Lack of Class" action suit?

HOw many rings did Miller go out and win on his own?

This "threat" has been here in MN since Red McCombs back in the late 90's. The Vikings will never leave MN...there's a state law that prevents that. The NFL team here in MN may leave, but the MN Vikings will always be the MN Vikings. The Team Name, trademarks, and records stay with the Vikings, and cannot be moved to LA or whereever the Team formerly known as the MN Vikings will go. After MN lost the North Stars, the law was passed..