The year was 2001. We decided to take a trip to Minnesota. My girlfriend (future wife) and I drove immediately after work Friday through the night, and arrived in downtown Minneapolis sometime after 2am. We were lucky enough to get a room, and got in a nap before starting our day.
Minneapolis is a really cool city, I must say. They have skywalks, so you walk 3 or 4 stories above the street through glass tunnels and through building lobbies. It's sweet, more cities should do it.
We went to the Mall of America...which is worth the trip. It's the biggest mall in the world, and the kids can ride roller coasters and you can shop with so sales tax. We also ate at Manny's steakhouse...whoo hoo. The place is incredible and the waiters wear butcher aprons. Some of the best steak I've had EVER and totally unpretentious.
We had such fun in Minneapolis, and of course hoped the Lions could pull out a win. Charlie Batch was back at QB (I miss Charlie) and we were hungry for a win (0-4).
They got down huge in a hurry, 31-6...but then Touchdown, Touchdown, Touchdown! And now it's 31-26. Holy cow, we have the ball and we're going to pull it out!
We're driving, Batch is on his game, picking the defense apart and getting recievers out of bounds to stop the clock. We have no timeouts left. Finally, only 12 seconds left, Charlie throws a dart and hits Germaine Crowell at the 20, right near the sideline. All he has to do is step out and Charlie can get the first win!!!
Step out....step out a@##ole!!! STEP OUT!!! Ahhghh...what the @#$# are you doing???
He ran for the endzone. Despite having 3 Vikings around him and the sideline right there, he ran for the endzone.
Game over, Lions lose.
Now begins the 10 hour drive back to Detroit, got to be at work at 8am Monday morning.
Start driving Lions junkie.
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