This is home, and since 1983, in a sturdy first-tier suburb.
Love to joke about Minnesota, love to agitate Gophers football fans, never got into devouring hockey, but I wouldn't pay taxes anywhere else.
Bud Grant, Jerry Burns and Page, Marshall and Eller. Tony Oliva, Kirby Puckett, Tom Kelly and Gene Mauch. Clem Haskins, Willie Burton and Bobby Jackson. Glen Sonmor, Lou Nanne and Henry Boucha.
Natalie Darwitz, Krissy Wendell and Lindsay Whalen. Maya Moore, Samantha Seliger-Swenson and Amber Fiser.
And on and on. A sportswriter has been blessed with rich material in Minnesota.
Championships? Few enough to appreciate them.
Those four Super Bowl losses — the last of which has been fermenting since January 1977 — remain our badge of honor. If you can't laugh about Gary Anderson, Blair Walsh and short-tempered Mike Zimmer cutting one of the NFL's best kickers, Daniel Carlson, after two games, you're not trying.