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blog: Embracing UD — Heavenly and X-rated
MINNEAPOLIS — The Dayton Flyers learned about love this morning.
At the 8 a.m. Mass at St. Olaf’s — where I saw UD athletics director Tim Wabler and a few red-clad Flyers fans — the Rev. Mr. Thom Winninger, the animated deacon of the downtown Catholic Church, gave an inspirational sermon about practicing the real gift of love with your fellow man.
On my 10-minute walk along S. 3rd Avenue to the Flyers team hotel, I passed the Lickety Split Erotic Pleasures store. The sidewalk sign out front said “Welcome Sports Fans — Don’t be shy, come on in.”
In one of the front windows — moved up ahead of the bondage paraphernalia, the lubricants, sex toys and other apparel — was a leatherwear. Bright red leatherwear. Flyer red leatherwear.
And written on a little index card was “GO FLYERS.”
So in the space of 7 or 8 blocks — two different ways for Flyers fans to practice their love.
And yet the biggest lovefest was back at UD’s headquarters — The Depot Renaissance Minneapolis — where maybe 75 Flyers fans dressed in red (though not red leatherwear) lined a hallway and the open courtyard that led to the team bus.
As the crowd chanted “Let’s Go Flyers,” the players finally came out single file — London Warren with head phones on, singing loudly to himself — and high-fived their loving well wishers before boarding the bus for the ride to the Metrodome and today’s NCAA Tournament game with Kansas.
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By rah rah
March 23, 2009 12:37 PM | Link to this
Red leatherware goes best with a white dickey.