I’ve been asked a few times if I’m going to watch the Super Bowl this year now that the Vikings are out of it. Yeah, sure, I’ll keep an eye on it like I usually do. But most Super Bowl games are lopsided and boring. I actually went bowling last year during the first half of the big game — and posted one of my highest scores, a 214. I got a little interested near the end when the Cardinals made a game of it.

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I get asked this all the time: You grew up in Chicago, so why are you a Vikings fan?

My Chicago friends have a tad different way of phrasing the question — just insert various expletives wherever appropriate.

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I can still vividly recall the dawn of video games, telling Mom I was going to check out the Pong game in electronics as she shopped at Zayres, a department store chain that disappeared generations ago.

Pong was basically a slow-motion electronic version of tennis. Blip, blip — and if you hit it with just the right English — blop!

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