By Aj Mansour
Jun 3, 2021
File this one under the you just can t make this up category, but it was just recently announced that a handful of former Minnesota Vikings are hosting a boat cruise on Lake Minnetonka on June 18th! What s more, it s going to be hosted by former Minnesota Vikings Robert Griffith and Bryant McKinnie, the latter who was infamously present on the original Minnetonka cruise.
Obviously, it didn t take long for the Internet to take this one over and dub the venture Love Boat 2.0 after the infamous boat cruise that a group of Vikings players took back in 2005 that got wildly out of hand and ended in lawsuits, accusations and a tarnished reputation for the players and team. If you re not familiar with that scandal you can get more details than you probably want here.
Annette Gordon-Reed who's famous for making clear that Thomas Jefferson fathered children with an enslaved woman takes on another favorite myth. She considers Texas' origins as a slave state and the struggle for equality that Black Texans are still waging.
Possible thermal images of Australia's Bigfoot, a 9/11-themed bar, and a man in Spain who died inside a dinosaur statue were among the strange and unusual stories to cross our desk this past week.