The Long Way Home 1.31.25
It's an OMEN Alas, the quadrennial event celebrating the changing of administrations in Washington, the "peaceful transfer of power" we are so famous for, inserted itself into my addled cranium and left me shaking my head. I wanted to write for this week's column about the Vikings league championship and their chance to shine in the glory of the Super Bowl. Explore why the NFL bothers with Roman numerals to identify the game when most of us get stuck at 10 in the artistic and archaic numbering language of the Roman Empire. We're Merika, for God's sake, not Rome. Instead of football, my fingers go to the first 12 days of the term of the 47th President of the United States, the divided population, and the omens that might be influencing things. The Bohunk, the same one who dragged me back to Viking football, has Bohemian roots on her dad's side of the family. For centuries, Bohemia was an independent kingdom in Eastern Europe and is now part of the Czech Re...