I was born in South Dakota, and grew up a die-hard Minnesota sports fan thanks to my father.

We watched three Vikings Super Bowls on TV (I was a bit too young to remember the IV vs. Kansas City) and used to listen to Herb Carneal do the play by play of Twins games while hauling hay bails during the hot summers on the South Dakota Farm.

In the late 70′s, my dad started taking my brothers and I to our first Twins games at Met Stadium. In 1976, he took me to my first Vikings game, a divisional playoff win over the Washington Redskins, during the last run of the purple to the Super Bowl.

I was hooked. I moved to the Twin Cities way back in 1983 from South Dakota. I have coached baseball for over 20 years; from Rookie Leagues in Lakeville, to Head Coaching a VFW team in Watertown, SD back in the 80′s. I have played on State and World Championship softball teams, and love anything related to the game of baseball.

Truth be told, the only reason I left the gravel roads and hay bales of So Dak for college in Minnesota was so that I could attend as many Twins and Vikings games as possible. I graduated from Macalester College in 1987. Reluctantly, I returned home that summer to coach 3 baseball teams, and deliver pizzas. I lived at a lake house with my best friend, and watched the Twins take a run at the pennant. When the summer baseball wrapped up in August, I took the first job offered to me in St. Paul so I could be part of the Twins Magic that year. I spent my first paycheck on World Series tickets, and I have never regretted it.

I bought Vikings season tickets in 1998, and have enjoyed tailgating every year up through the Brett Favre interception in the 2010 NFC Championship.

My resume will in no way qualify me to be a professional baseball or football expert, but my passion for the game has lead me to create this blog, and write things about sports as I see them. I love the game and I am a huge Twins fan. One of the best weeks of my life was back in October 1987 when I attended Game 6 & 7, a World Series parade, and a U2 concert in less than a week.
I got married in 1997, to college softball player. We had a Twins theme wedding, and have attended Spring Training in Fort Meyers since 2006.

“Your life is sports,” a friend once told me.

“My life is good!” I promptly responded.

For 2010, I am semi-retired. Instead of tailgating for hours before the game, it is my intent to just attend a handful of home games and maybe one or 2 roadtrips. I want to spend time at home with 6-year old son and teach him the ways of the purple from my Vikings Dreamseat in the basement. Someday, I want to take him to his first game like my dad took me to mine. He will be schooled proper and will make his debute 4-5 years from now when he is ready to sit through an entire game, and knows the rules and the players. At that time we will return to the lot as varsity tailgaters. Who knows, maybe by then the Vikings will playing outdoors with a few rings on their fingers with Brett Favre still chucking the ball deep to Percy Harvin?