Minnesota's bald players and coaches for charity
We're gonna see a lot of bald heads on the Minnesota sideline tomorrow. Earlier this week their Coach Kill along with most if not all of the team shaved their heads for St. Baldrick's charity to honor their WR Connor Cosgrove who has leukemia. Members of the hockey & baseball teams, and even one from the women's volleyball squad also shaved their heads in the fundraiser.
Salute to Minnesota for doing this for charity. Hope they inflated their helmets properly, they're gonna be a lot looser on their heads now, it'd be a shame if anyone got a concussion after doing something cool like this.
Link: http://www.gophersports.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/102912aaf.html
November 2nd, 2012 at 1:01 PM ^
November 2nd, 2012 at 11:56 AM ^
I hate having any reason to think of the other team as human beings
November 2nd, 2012 at 12:08 PM ^
had me thinking that they somehow had a womens roster of thirteen, and wondered how they could possibly compete with such a small hockey team. I looked it up, and they have a full twenty-two, so I'm guessing somewhere around half their team declined to be in this video, and I can't say I blame them.
November 2nd, 2012 at 12:24 PM ^
The rub is that even if Minnesota only had 13 players on their womens' roster, they'd probably still win that national title.
November 2nd, 2012 at 12:19 PM ^
At first I was like "this is cool." After about 30 seconds or so, I was like "okay, that's enough." Towards the end I was like "okay, no you're just embarassing yourselves" a la:
November 2nd, 2012 at 12:55 PM ^
Still less embarrasing than We Are ND.
November 2nd, 2012 at 4:07 PM ^
For what it's worth, they play a variety of clips from popular songs in the background to this during actual games. I'm guessing there's some kind of licensing/copyright issue that only lets them use those songs in the stadium (and not on youtube), hence the repetitive/generic background music.
November 2nd, 2012 at 12:20 PM ^
I have nothing but absolute respect for Coach Kill ... what an inspiring man. While many just want him to be the next Glen Mason, I have a feeling he's going to be their Coach Hoke. I can't help but root for this team every week but one out of the year and whatever happens tomorrow, you will know that they will always be a class act. It's also great to see how much team unity they have behind Coach Kill. Usually losing teams tend to act selfishly and not see the big picture, but he's been able to turn that around.
I would be on the watch for Minnesota... they are a team on the rise!
November 2nd, 2012 at 12:41 PM ^
Say what you want about Minnesota, but Jerry Kill is a good coach and a class act guy. He does look like Goldy, though.
November 2nd, 2012 at 2:12 PM ^
Seconded. I definitely root for them (outside of tomorrow) and feel bad for the crap he's had to go through with his health.
November 2nd, 2012 at 1:12 PM ^
"I have a feeling he's going to be their Coach Hoke"
So the fanbase only needs one Sugar Bowl win to be sold on a guy? Noted. I am not so certain Coach Hoke is our "Coach Hooke." We are 5-3 and haven't sniffed a B1G Championship yet.
November 2nd, 2012 at 12:49 PM ^
As I recall, Coach Kill is a survivor of kidney cancer himself, so I imagine this hits close to home for him in particular as well as the the baseball team's pitching coach,. Here's Kill in the Yahoo! article on this:
"What this youngster's [Connor Cosgrove] gone through is much more difficult than anything I've been through," coach Jerry Kill said during his weekly press conference. "He's a young person, and to take on what he has and mentally stay where he's at . . . he's helped all of us more than we've helped him."
When people across varisty sports and from ranks both high and low are participating in something like this, that speaks a lot about the culture of the department and it seems Minnesota's athletic department has quite a few high-character coaches, assistants and athletes as a result. Class acts, all who chipped in here, I would say.
November 2nd, 2012 at 2:16 PM ^
He was drunk and exhausted but he was critically acclaimed and respected
he loved the Golden Gophers but he hated all the drawn out winters.
He likes the warm feeling but he's tired of all the dehydration
Most nights were kind of fuzzy
but last night he had total retention.
November 2nd, 2012 at 4:40 PM ^
They're also going to be wearing a bunch of purple accessories for epilepsy awareness.
November 3rd, 2012 at 1:09 AM ^