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Repya: ‘If Green Bay can own the Packers, Minnesota can own the Vikings’

By Paul Schmelzer | 01.24.10 | 6:56 pm

Two hours before the Minnesota Vikings took to the field to face off against the New Orleans Saints for the NFC Championship, Independence Party gubernatorial candidate Joe Repya issued a press release stating that he thinks the state…

Hamburger no longer on offer in Green Bay-Minneapolis football bet

By Chris Steller | 10.29.09 | 1:33 pm

China may be ready to buy American pork again now, with fears subsiding about catching H1N1 flu from eating pigs, but hamburger has fallen from grace as a token of interstate tribute.  

To victor go spoils? Hamburger not football prize it was 2 weeks ago

By Chris Steller | 10.14.09 | 1:49 pm

To the victor go the spoils, the saying goes. And so on Tuesday Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak took delivery of 10 pounds of hamburger from Jim Schmitt, mayor of Green Bay, Wisc., in fulfillment of the friendly wager they made…