Comments on: Vikings adding Matt Blair to Ring of Honor

By: Ponder not Webb

Ponder not Webb — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 15:20:41 +0000

And another thing, just because something crosses the little mind of one of your writers doesn’t mean you should allow it to be shared with the readers of your website.

Come on… hire an editor and cut out some of the stupidity.

By: packerhater

packerhater — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 13:50:48 +0000

“Should it matter? No. Will it moving forward? Maybe”

Why did you ask and answer your own question?

By: purplehayseuss

purplehayseuss — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 04:14:04 +0000

I met Matt Blair when he was traveling with a Vikings fund raiser basketball team in the mid 70s back in North Dakota. The team came to eat dinner at my house because my dad sponsored the game through a community organization. Bill Brown, Milt Sunde, Wally Hilgenberg, Fred Cox, Bobby Bryant, Matt, Mick Tinglehoff. I think there were a couple of others, but hey, I was 10 and utterly in awe. I’d never seen human beings so large and so friendly. Matt’s ‘fro rubbed on the suspended ceiling in our basement. I thought Boom Boom didn’t need a helmet because his buzz cut was so stiff it would hurt people.

The BB game was a silly joke, of course, but better than a Globetrotters ‘game’. One moment that stuck in my little fuzzy head is where the team lined up in a football formation, Tinglehoff snapped the ball to Bryant at the free throw line and he took three big steps and planted a foot on Mick’s back and leaped up for the dunk…and nearly decapitated himself on the rim.

After the game they all hung out in our basement and told stories and drank, carefully, at my dad’s bar. On that frozen February day, my world was a perfect place, and I have the photos and autographs to prove it.

By: thankheavenfornumberseven

thankheavenfornumberseven — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 21:50:03 +0000

tombradysponytail says:Jul 30, 2012 5:34 PM

I know the guy who bought his old house in South Minneapolis. It came with a “Sensory Deprivation Chamber.” Weird.
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Matt Blair? The periodontist?

By: hauts81

hauts81 — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 21:48:11 +0000

Why even bring up the concussion angle when Blair hasn’t sued?

By: tombradysponytail

tombradysponytail — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 21:34:16 +0000

I know the guy who bought his old house in South Minneapolis. It came with a “Sensory Deprivation Chamber.” Weird.

By: panamon

panamon — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 21:32:04 +0000

Well the teams aren’t as petty as you Mike so I don’t think this will ever matter in any way as trivial as this. Ever.