There is big news to reveal today for fans of Minnesota's major sports entities. A collection of this state's brightest and best have been spending long hours since November 2020 auditing suspicious results in past competitions involving our sporting heroes.
The forensic scientists and cyber investigators involved wanted to remain anonymous, out of fear these revelations will embarrass the NFL, NHL, big-league baseball, NCAA and the Big Ten and it could cost our team of technological wizards future business.
There was no greater calling here than objectivity; thus, degraded film prevented us from going back more than 50 years.
That's unfortunate, since there's not much doubt the International Officiating Conspiracy against Minnesota teams first came to light on Nov. 24, 1962, in Madison, Wis.
The hometown Badgers are alleged to have won that game 14-9 and backed into a Rose Bowl berth, although Minnesota's surviving baby boomers realize a game-turning, roughing-the-passer penalty on Bobby Lee Bell was 100% bogus.
One impartial witness, Mr. Sid Hartman of Minneapolis, was known to say what happened in Camp Randall was "highway robbery."
As it was, our limited budget of $6 million kept this audit to a half-dozen disputed contests (a million apiece) taking place in the past half-century.
April 29, 1971, Met Center: The plucky, fourth-year North Stars already had embarrassed the NHL by becoming the first expansion team to get a playoff win against an Original Six team — and at the Montreal Forum.
