Worthington, Minn.: Your U.S.A. windsurfing capital
Posted on June 10th, 2008 – 12:51 PMBy Michael Rand
When you think windsurfing, you think of fair-haired, sun-drenched California dudes. Are we right? Huh, maybe it’s just us. But you probably don’t think immediately of, say, Worthington, Minn. But for the second time — starting tomorrow — that fine city will play host to the U.S. Windsurfing National Championships. So, um, we don’t have much more to say about it than that. But yeah, Worthington. Good job. (Thanks to Don S. for passing along the info).
Perhaps we could turn this into somewhat of a mid-day talker since we’ll be out of here for a while: what are the other surprising hidden sports gems found around the great state of Minnesota (or border states, we suppose)? Stu, please keep in mind that cow-tipping is not an official sport.
51 Responses to "Worthington, Minn.: Your U.S.A. windsurfing capital"
Stu, underage drinking also isn’t a sport
The reason why I bring that up, is that Rocket told me that Stu is single-handedly responsible for all of the underage drinking in Stearns County.
Stu, please keep in mind that cow-tipping is not an official sport.
Only if you’re not doing it right.
I so desperately want to thread together the whole Stu + cow tipping + Stearns County into a cruel joke about the comely Mrs. Stu. But I won’t because I am a gentleman and because my beef is not with her, it’s with her [redacted]-poor choice of an [redacted] [redacted] [redacted] husband.
I so desperately want to thread together the whole Stu + cow tipping + Stearns County into a cruel joke about the comely Mrs. Stu…
But I won’t because I am a gentleman and because my beef is not with her, it’s with her [redacted]-poor choice of an [redacted] [redacted] [redacted] husband.
Dave
While underage drinking may not be a sport, it does directly contribute to sport [redacted]ing
I guess that putdown was so great that I had to post it twice. In you face, Stu!
Worthington is also billed as the Turkey Capital of the World. They have a celebration every fall called Turkey Days. I think it’s usually around Labor Day weekend. They have Turkey races. It’s crazy. Also, Jesse James and his gang robbed the bank in Worthington before their downfall in Northfield. These are the things I know, don’t ask me why.
These are the things I know, don’t ask me why.
Oh, it’s on now, Rocket.
All responses to your vicious personal attacks will be made in the form of haikus featuring the names of old game show hosts:
None of your jabs match
The eloquence and verve of
A young Gene Rayburn.
Some sad news on the home front.
http://www.startribune.com/sports/preps/19717374.html?location_refer=Homepage
Let’s hope he comes out of surgery ok.
You want to throw down in haiku, Stu? You just made a very poor choice, my friend…
Cow-tipping is fun
If you are stupid and drunk
Or your name is Stu
“Cow-tipping is fun If you are stupid and drunk Or your name is Stu”
Or all 3
Wink Martindale
Would tell you that your broadsides
Are ineffective
The Feud’s Richard Dawson
Wants young Dave Em En and Stu
To Kiss And Make Up
Chuck Woolery would
Beat you and Wink without mercy
In only two and two
Oops. That should be
“Feud’s” Richard Dawson.
The high point of my freshman year of college was a late fall Tuesday afternoon Organizational Behavior class lecture, many of us almost asleep, when Louis from Georgia leaned over to Joe and me and said
“Hey Matt, I wrote a Hi-Koo!”
See the M’retta girls
Layin in their Sears Bikinis
On the Georgia Clay
(helps to know that Marietta Georgia = Coon Rapids MN)
Only poetry I’ve ever memorized.
(fixing the syllables)
Chuck Woolery would
Beat you and Wink without mercy
In just two and two
(syllables fixed)
Chuck Woolery would
Beat you and Wink without mercy
In only two and two
The last line of your
haiku has six beats, not five
Rolf Benirschke weeps
The crowd today is a little to smart for my liking. Go back and drink a 6 pack and then start posting. That way I don’t feel so dum.
The quintessential
Bob Eubanks says Stu is not
The grammar police
We’re looking down on Wayne’s basement.
Only that’s not Wayne’s basement.
Isn’t that weird?
And I can guarantee there will be NO wind for the regatta, as that has become an annual trend.
The great Bob Barker
Never missed a putt on air
Not so much for Stu
If Bert Convy could
Read this thread it would be of
Note, since he is dead.
Is Stu or Stuart
Better? Or is it Stewie?
Really hard to say
It’s funny, after Rand takes the “haiku” message out of his RandBall description, something like this thread happens.
Take note everyone, Rand doesn’t “welcome our tasteless haikus” anymore
Muppet, Guy Smiley
Is better than Stu at life
And he’s a puppet
Pile on Stu today
This should be interesting
Will he still be COW?
Pat Sajak says the
Northern Plains Indian Law
Center can eat it
I believe that all
the hosts that I have heard of
are named: ‘cept Jim Lange
And even now, I sit here, sullen,
because I forgot the late Bill Cullen.
Just wanted to let you all know–Joker just called from the golf course (no mention of what kind of beer he was drinking, cheap or otherwise), and asked me to let you all know that he just found out about Cedric Benson being released.
He said he will be on tomorrow to continue mocking Benson and the Bears (not necessarily in that order).
Peter Tomarken
Read poems about Whammys
While Stu’s in jammies
Haikus are awesome.
But some of them don’t make sense.
Yellow bicycle.
This is what happens
When I leave you kids alone
For secret project
The secret project
Can only give us one thing:
RandBites: On TV!
you’re either on something or onto something.
Burt Reynolds changes
his name to Turd Furgeson
Says “Suck it Trebek”
Spinning in his grave
Ray Combs angrily declares
“This feud is over!”
Pat Sajack sayeth
Rocket’s line two of beat down
Still seven syll’bles
This is what happens
When I leave you kids alone
For secret project
My official guess: Page 2.1
Spinning in his grave
Ray Combs angrily declares
“This feud is over!”
That’s just outstanding.
“Randball: This t-shirt took 2 years to make.”
And now they are finally done!
I can’t wait for Randball TV.
I just saw the memo…how exciting!
My guess is that the first show will revolve around Stu and cow-tipping.
Here’s the RandBall TV memo.
Rand with a face destined for the Newspaper, how much time are you going to spend in the make up trailer?
The new t-shirt:
“RandBall: You Need Some More Rouge”
Great. Lileks.
Hey, at least it’s not the Katherine Kersten channel…
I’d imagine it as being like an intolerant, closed-minded Cyndi Brucato. *shudder*
My God, if Brucato isn’t the reason not to switch to HD, I don’t know what is.
Mike Adamle hosts
Star Tribune Gladiators
Rand versus Lileks
Cedric Benson cut
Jama hides this fact
The Bear’s Adrian Peterson is not the Viking’s Adrian Peterson
