“Dakota” is a song by the Welsh band Stereophonics, and was released on February 28, 2005. I like the song alot, it’s one of those underrated tunes that I found on iTunes while surfing music about my homestate South Dakota.

I realize this song has nothing to do with that flat fly over state in the cornfields, but I don’t care. It’s melodic, sounds like an 80′s tune, and it has simple but intense lyrics. It reminds me of the type of song that should be blasting out at Target Field during Twins Batting Practice, and that type of music is always stellar. Enjoy

Dakota Lyrics:

Thinking about thinking of you
Summertime think it was June
Yeah think it was June
Laying back, head on the grass
Children grown having some laughs
Yeah having some laughs.

Made me feel like the one
Made me feel like the one
The one
Made me feel like the one
Made me feel like the one
The one

Drinking back, drinking for two
Drinking with you
And drinking was new
Sleeping in the back of my car
We never went far
Needed to go far

Made me feel like the one
Made me feel like the one
The one
Made me feel like the one
Made me feel like the one
The one

I don’t know where we are going now
I don’t know where we are going now

Wake up cold coffee and juice
Remembering you
What happened to you?
I wonder if we’ll meet again
Talk about us instead
Talk about why did it end

Made me feel like the one
Made me feel like the one
The one
Made me feel like the one
Made me feel like the one
The one

I don’t know where we are going now
I don’t know where we are going now

So take a look at me now

Can you smell it? This last week in Minnesota you can almost smell fall in the air, and for me fall is the best time of year. The smell of fall has and always will be linked, for me, to FOOTBALL! Minnesota Vikings football and Minnesota Gopher football (back in the day when we had stadiums outdoors!). You can almost feel the “Electwicity” in the air!

I have been a Vikings fan as long as I can remember. My earliest recollections date back to the fall of 1972. I have a picture of me wearing my Vikings jersey for the first day of school and I am holding my new Viking pencils and Vikings folder (best part of school starting was always getting new Viking school supplies).

By Chamber (The New Blogger Guy) Posted on his MySpace Blog, back in August…

For me the Vikings will never be as good as they were in the 70′s. Some of this may be just plain old nostalgia. However, I think they were just damn good and plenty exciting to watch. I would live in die by how the Vikings did on Sunday. Don’t get me wrong, I am still a huge Vikings fan, but its just not the same.

We no longer have the Jim Marshalls, Alan Pages, Carl Ellers, Chuck Formans, Fran Tarkingtons, and even the likes of Milt Sunde and Mick Tinglehoff ( I could go on, but I think you get my point). Now we must rely on a young and little known defense (although the have looked decent in the preseason so far….) and and offense that has a great line but little else after that. We are weighing our hopes a rookie running back (Adrian Peterson), basically a rookie QB (Travaris Jackson) and are lacking any type of big name receiver.

I can not get into preseason football until the the last two weekends of it…. so here we go. This weekend should be a decent preseason game to watch, Vikings at Seattle. My intentions are to write one or two blogs a week about the Vikings and my opinions on them.

Feel free to chime in when you agree or disagree (valid discourse only). However, I do tend to get a little “emotionable” when discussing this topic.

Later, Chamberlain