Teddy bear toss game

It was the most exciting game of the season to date. The game remained scoreless for nearly 50 minutes, but the Gophers got the teddy bear goal at last. We had a very nice crowd of over 2,100, far short of yesterday's sell out but a nice crowd nonetheless. With 2,100 in the building it was not the spectacle of 25,000 bears as seen in the Calgary video but the ice was respectably littered and it was all for a good cause, Toys-for-Tots.

Final, Gophers 2, Badgers 0.

One of my readers noted that even though the riding the invisible horse video is clearly lots of fun, it is a little hard to tell if "Gangnam Style" is a great song or not. Her problem is quite common since PSY is Korean singing in his native tongue. Korean is not a language that a HUGE number of people are fluent in.

But just in case anyone happens to think that PSY is just some new Justin Bieber/YouTube sensation propped up by American teenagers, here is a clip of him performing his signature hit at the Summer Stand - The Drenched Show concert at Jamsil Sports Complex in Seoul on 11 August 2012. These kids speak the language (and sing along) and they seem to like the song.

And THAT's what it looks like when the audience speaks the language and understands the lyrics.

This one only has about 46 million views. According to PSY, "People don't use YouTube in Korea that much, they have their own streaming sites so this is uploaded almost exclusively for international fans". That means that most of those now more than 855 million views of the original video were not by residents of Korea but of the rest of the world.