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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voyageur" data-source="post: 1064940" data-attributes="member: 17953">You must remember the days when Don Riley was writing for the St. Paul Pioneer Press. The guy was an institution of coming up with insults against Wisconsin and the Packers. He was good at it. He would get mail from people who were seething because of snappy comments about Wisconsin, and he'd make their heads explode with a zinger. I loved reading his columns because they were actually a fun read. His column was called "The Eye Opener." The only person that I've ever found that I liked nearly as much was Jim Murray out of the Los Angeles Times. They were to sports columns what Don Rickles was to stand-up comedy that knew absolutely no boundaries.I loved it when Riley would refer to the Packers as Green Bush. In those days the insult type joke was well deserved. The Packers were horrible. They were pathetic. Riley would go on and on about how Minnesota was so great, and Wisconsin was just a wasteland that connected them to Illinois. The funny part was that he lived in Wisconsin. His home was in Hudson, WI, and he was actually born in New Richmond, WI. I do believe though that later in life, Don moved to Minneapolis, but that part I can't be certain about.He pointed out, with his comments, that we need to learn to laugh at ourselves and others. It's a good philosophy for life.</blockquote>

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