In honor of a dear departed soul, I want to say my attitude going into today's show

is what can the next 40 minutes do for me Patrick Ray.

Nine years ago today the dark man left this veil of tears so what year we got

of that 2012 you know what that means nine years ago tomorrow Joe made his last

appearance on Saturday sports talk is that right because he came in the next day

because he thought of the roof story. Oh that's right. It's a rough story. It didn't even get paid. Just came in and told the

roof story which is a classic and of course I repeated last night on Twitter the one

that becomes the annual when his show at 12 30 in the morning is I'm driving home

from the third game of the 1991 Stanley Cup finals in which the north and the

in which the north stars took a two to one lead in the Stanley Cup finals and

that was the day that Norm was up there and that what thing they built for him

and that's out of all the more people and in that center he was up in the corner

and he was like Nero and they're norm norm norm and I'd written a column that day

ripping the hell out of him for having the Stanley Cup finals on pay per view

and that was the debut of Norm Greed by the way and the topic of dark show is

does the twin cities need a negative sports columnist like Patrick Ricey and

by the way no coincidence next game dark and one of his young girl friends are

in Norm's box up there that was the whole motive of the thing he wanted all he

wanted in life was to get in that box and Donnie Stoner who's the SID over at

Augsburg reminded me yesterday that dark and I go over there to see Devin

George plays playing at Augsburg in the Pavanan and being a first-rounder and

nice NBA career and we're sitting up in the back in the arena's full and Donnie

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