GopherHomer
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Here is my new theory about why a majority of our local media members seem to take sadistic glee in the Gophers' failures. Agree/disagree?
Being a market with four major league franchises that, within the Big 10, competes mainly with markets that consider their college teams the number one priority, do you think that our media members are attempting to claim superiority over these other writers by looking down their noses at our college football team? In doing this, they are trying to show that they are "professional" sports writers and not some intern following around a bunch of college kids. If the Gophers ever experienced real success and captured the attention of the population as a whole, they would then have to debase themselves to level of these other small-town hick writers. This may be lodged in their subconscious, or not true at all...but I found it to be an interesting thought. If the Gophers were to, say, win the Big 10 title (I know...I know) less established journalists like Doogie would suddenly have the upper-hand over the old guard. (not attempting to rip Doogie at all...it's just that he currently does not carry the same weight as, let's say, Reusse (in more ways than one)).
Being a market with four major league franchises that, within the Big 10, competes mainly with markets that consider their college teams the number one priority, do you think that our media members are attempting to claim superiority over these other writers by looking down their noses at our college football team? In doing this, they are trying to show that they are "professional" sports writers and not some intern following around a bunch of college kids. If the Gophers ever experienced real success and captured the attention of the population as a whole, they would then have to debase themselves to level of these other small-town hick writers. This may be lodged in their subconscious, or not true at all...but I found it to be an interesting thought. If the Gophers were to, say, win the Big 10 title (I know...I know) less established journalists like Doogie would suddenly have the upper-hand over the old guard. (not attempting to rip Doogie at all...it's just that he currently does not carry the same weight as, let's say, Reusse (in more ways than one)).