Time to give Minnesota its history back – by Ralph Strangis
November 16, 2024
Time to give Minnesota its history back – by Ralph Strangis
18 comments
They’re gone and never coming back. I do like the 78’s as a third jersey though.
I would like the retired numbers of the old North Stars players moved. I’m sure the folks in Dallas don’t care a bit about pre-1990 franchise history.
Damn thanks for sharing this! I love that the writer has both knowledge of the North Stars and the Dallas Stars. This was a powerful article. I’m not going to lie, I teared up reading our history.
Sorry Dallas, the Gump Worsley photos are ours.
I think we sort of already have. We sell merch with north stars logos, we have alternate jerseys with the colors, we’ve adopted the “let’s play hockey” chant. We’ve taken back our history while also creating our own with the Wild. Perfect balance.
Or people can just let what is dead die. The North Stars have been gone as long as they were here, and the Wild have had just as much success as the North Stars.
Get over it already
I’m a new fan and relatively recent (but hopefully long-term) resident of the state, I love the current logo and colors, BUT I can still understand older/established fans’ attachment to the old logo and colors.
Side comment: since these franchises have only ever been the private property of some rich person/family/PE, I don’t/can’t identify with a sense of “ownership” of or entitlement to a team’s history. Maybe I’d feel different if the public had an ownership stake in the team (not just subsidies to upgrade arenas, etc.).
Let it friggin go, for chrissakes!!
It’s like a middle-aged man still pining about his high-school girlfriend.
Numbers sure. But good god can we move on already. I don’t understand pining for this team that left you high and dry when the Wild were purely born out of love for Minnesota. They’re a love letter to Minnesota hockey. We can appreciate the past without shitting on the present.
I’m so over this “change the colors, bring back the north stars” bs. And then what? Have the Stars and North Stars in the same league? So derivative.
Honor the history. Enjoy the past. But don’t change what I grew up with for your nostalgia sake.
I’m almost 30 and I’ve never been anything but a Wild fan. Let the north stars be state hockey history, but don’t take away the identity of the Minnesota Wild as I and many many other fans know it
Although I agree with the article, it tries to push blame on the Gund brothers, bad drafting in the 80s and that the arena was in the burbs. Which I think is a wholly inaccurate take.
In reality, the real reasons we’re: – Norm got into a pissing contest with downtown Mpls and couldn’t come to an agreement on ad revenue for moving into target center. He alternately tried get Bloomington to hook Met Center up to the MOA. But they kept pushing for him to move to Mpls. – He was facing sexual harassment charges.
Yes, the 80s sucked for that franchise, but the team was doing well and selling out the arena the last couple of years when he moved the team. Remember, we made it to the Stanley Cup finals in ‘91.
It’s not that Norm wasn’t making money, he just wasn’t making as much money as he wanted. That’s the real reason why they moved.
That being said, give us our logo, name and retired numbers back.
Colors, logo, and numbers back yes. Records no. Whole heartedly agree. I’d love to have it as an alternate logo and switch to those colors if we aren’t going to use the red or wheat ever. Just give us back our history!
I never like the name Wild and I hate the colors. The logo is nice but that is about it. I like the North Stars and the colors better. The city should keep the history when they move to a new place.
Fuck the North Stars. I’m a Wild fan
It’s time to move on. You have a generation of adult fans that were not alive during the North Star days. It’s time to let it go.
I wouldn’t mind if they just archived it all. Time to put it to rest.
New Orleans NBA franchise gave Charlotte their Hornets name back after several years. That was a win-win for both fanbases.
Edit: I didn’t finish my point… For NO’s good deed the franchise in Utah should give NO its damn name back because if there’s going to be a Utah Jazz, there might as well be the Miami Eskimos or the Tampa Bay Polars.
The retired numbers are the only thing I want. Those are Minnesota history, not Dallas’s.
The rest can be a beloved memory that we honor with our alt jerseys and throwback sweaters.
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They’re gone and never coming back. I do like the 78’s as a third jersey though.
I would like the retired numbers of the old North Stars players moved. I’m sure the folks in Dallas don’t care a bit about pre-1990 franchise history.
Damn thanks for sharing this! I love that the writer has both knowledge of the North Stars and the Dallas Stars. This was a powerful article. I’m not going to lie, I teared up reading our history.
Sorry Dallas, the Gump Worsley photos are ours.
I think we sort of already have. We sell merch with north stars logos, we have alternate jerseys with the colors, we’ve adopted the “let’s play hockey” chant. We’ve taken back our history while also creating our own with the Wild. Perfect balance.
Or people can just let what is dead die. The North Stars have been gone as long as they were here, and the Wild have had just as much success as the North Stars.
Get over it already
I’m a new fan and relatively recent (but hopefully long-term) resident of the state, I love the current logo and colors, BUT I can still understand older/established fans’ attachment to the old logo and colors.
Side comment: since these franchises have only ever been the private property of some rich person/family/PE, I don’t/can’t identify with a sense of “ownership” of or entitlement to a team’s history. Maybe I’d feel different if the public had an ownership stake in the team (not just subsidies to upgrade arenas, etc.).
Let it friggin go, for chrissakes!!
It’s like a middle-aged man still pining about his high-school girlfriend.
Numbers sure. But good god can we move on already. I don’t understand pining for this team that left you high and dry when the Wild were purely born out of love for Minnesota. They’re a love letter to Minnesota hockey. We can appreciate the past without shitting on the present.
I’m so over this “change the colors, bring back the north stars” bs. And then what? Have the Stars and North Stars in the same league? So derivative.
Honor the history. Enjoy the past. But don’t change what I grew up with for your nostalgia sake.
I’m almost 30 and I’ve never been anything but a Wild fan. Let the north stars be state hockey history, but don’t take away the identity of the Minnesota Wild as I and many many other fans know it
Although I agree with the article, it tries to push blame on the Gund brothers, bad drafting in the 80s and that the arena was in the burbs. Which I think is a wholly inaccurate take.
In reality, the real reasons we’re:
– Norm got into a pissing contest with downtown Mpls and couldn’t come to an agreement on ad revenue for moving into target center. He alternately tried get Bloomington to hook Met Center up to the MOA. But they kept pushing for him to move to Mpls.
– He was facing sexual harassment charges.
Yes, the 80s sucked for that franchise, but the team was doing well and selling out the arena the last couple of years when he moved the team. Remember, we made it to the Stanley Cup finals in ‘91.
It’s not that Norm wasn’t making money, he just wasn’t making as much money as he wanted. That’s the real reason why they moved.
That being said, give us our logo, name and retired numbers back.
Colors, logo, and numbers back yes. Records no. Whole heartedly agree. I’d love to have it as an alternate logo and switch to those colors if we aren’t going to use the red or wheat ever. Just give us back our history!
I never like the name Wild and I hate the colors. The logo is nice but that is about it. I like the North Stars and the colors better. The city should keep the history when they move to a new place.
Fuck the North Stars. I’m a Wild fan
It’s time to move on. You have a generation of adult fans that were not alive during the North Star days. It’s time to let it go.
I wouldn’t mind if they just archived it all. Time to put it to rest.
New Orleans NBA franchise gave Charlotte their Hornets name back after several years. That was a win-win for both fanbases.
Edit: I didn’t finish my point… For NO’s good deed the franchise in Utah should give NO its damn name back because if there’s going to be a Utah Jazz, there might as well be the Miami Eskimos or the Tampa Bay Polars.
The retired numbers are the only thing I want. Those are Minnesota history, not Dallas’s.
The rest can be a beloved memory that we honor with our alt jerseys and throwback sweaters.