Don't jump Minnesotans!

It's a blue Monday morning here in the land of lakes and frostbite. Our precious Vikings lost a game they should have won (we should be happy Favre lived through it), the Gopher football got embarrassed by an average Ohio State team, Gopher hockey got swept at home, and don't look now but the T-Wolves are about to start their run at getting another failed lottery pick. Our Wild did manage to eek one out in a shootout on Saturday, I guess we can hang our hats on that if we want to.

I'm going to try and talk everyone off the ledge, tomorrow is a new day for some of these teams. The Vikings looked great yesterday, if it weren't for a couple improbable plays crippling us the Vikes would have won. I feel much better about this loss than the win against the Ravens. Winning next week in Green Bay then the bye week, I think we can all be happy with that.

The Gopher hockey team doesn't look great right now, but fear not, they have the talent to turn it around. They should be able to regain a little swagger this week with Alaska coming to town. However, if they don't play well it could be panic button pressing time.

Gopher football. Hmmm....well I guess they kept it close for the first part of the game, that's encouraging. The only real positive we should take from the game is that backup QB Gray got into the game. Whether he really has the goods to be a quality quarterback remains to be seen, but at least he may be getting more playing time.

The Wild are improving, they may have played their best game of the young season on Saturday. They were much better defensively and created more scoring opportunities than in previous games. They've got a big game tonight in Chicago on national T.V., would be a very nice night to get that first road win.

And the Wolves...I don't have a great basketball mind, but I know bad, dysfunctional teams when I see one. There may be no better example than the T-Wolves. Wake me up for the draft lottery so I can see the Wolves drop in the order again.

It's not all dark clouds in the forecast for loser-sota, we've got a couple rays of sunshine to forward to. So c'mon off that ledge and save your seats for the Vikings parade route after they take down the Pats to win the Super Bowl homeboy!