So the Vikings are missing out on today's Super Bowl. It may not make you feel much better, but historically speaking, our teams have made good more frequently than those in many other places.
The Twin Cities area, the nation's 16th-largest metro area, can point to seven major pro-sports championships: five from basketball's old Minneapolis Lakers between 1949 and 1954 and two from baseball's Twins, in 1987 and 1991. Only 11 metro areas have more.
The truly overachieving cities are Milwaukee/Green Bay (13 titles), Pittsburgh (11) and St. Louis (10). They're all smaller than the Twin Cities area.
There's a group of big cities with hardly any titles; they tend to be those in the South and West whose growth, and therefore pro-sports participation, is relatively recent: Phoenix (no titles), Atlanta (1) and Seattle (1) stand out.
The cities most like us (mid-sized, decent crop of titles): Cleveland (7), Dallas (7) and Cincinnati (5).
- David Peterson
Diary
A friend's warmth
'The best antique is an old friend,' I read recently.
Richard Gora has been my best friend since we met in college in 1968. He's known for his razor wit, his love for anything written by Colette and his passion for fine chocolate. Only those in his closest circle of friends know he's created fur coats and quilts as gifts for his best pals, nieces and nephews, and his mother, who still lives in Winona, Minn., where he grew up and studied with a Polish furrier.
When the temperature outside dropped to less than comfortable last year, there was a knock on my door. There stood my friend, quilt in hand, hand-sewn in his favorite paisley.
'Can't have my best friend be cold,' he said.
- Karen Gail Jostad,
Minneapolis
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