Kathleen selected a pair of Gopher t-shirts for Solveig and Bill, with the expectation that they would be pulling for our boys from their California tv room on the first day of the year, when the Golden Gophers take on the Missouri Tigers in Orlando. Stan and Kathleen expect to be viewing the event from a sports bar somewhere in Gallup, New Mexico, while on their final leg of their winter trip to Scottsdale. They will pack appropriate Gopher garb themselves for the Gallup afternoon bar scene.
Historical footnote: In the summer of 1969, Stan, Solveig and Bill were all enrolled at the University of Minnesota, Stan in his fourth year of his unsuccessful five-year program to avoid the draft. Solveig and Bill were in summer school grabbing credits so that they could graduate early from the University of Kansas and the University of Miami respectively, thus finishing their degrees in a money-saving 3 and a half years.
The last time the Minnesota Gophers won a national championship was in 1960.
