lol Cheesey
How's that for a self absorbed town name?
Anyway, that's pretty cool. What kind of family did they help? Don't know when/if it'll air here, but I'll be on the look out.
"Rockmolder" wrote:
I don't know where the name came from, but I do know that back when Duluth-Superior were booming due to the cities' shipping and railway industries, they were projected to be bigger metropolitan areas than Chicago. I think the during the Great Depression killed that, although I could be off. In fact, Lake Superior was officially named after the city of Superior.
As for the family they helped, I didn't watch the episode.. I forgot about it. I'll have to go online at ABC.com to watch. I know one of the parents is a fireman. If you can, look it up on ABC.com. It's the Huber family episode.
Superior, WI facts: Bud Grant, all time Viking great, and a Pro Football Hall of Famer, went to my high school in Superior and played basketball, baseball, and football.
If you were to Wikipedia the Minnesota Vikings, in the franchise history section you'll read: "The team was officially named the Minnesota Vikings on September 27, 1960; the name is
partly meant to reflect Minnesota's place as a center of Scandinavian American culture." Notice the word, 'partly'. That's because a Superior resident became a 10% founding owner (Ole Haugsrud) and Superior had a middle school called Superior Central middle school. Their mascot? The Vikings.
EDIT: Oh yeah.. few more facts: Ahhnooold Schwartz-- The Guvinator is a University of Wisconsin-Superior Alumni. He's made more than one appearance/speech at UW-S when I was still living there.
Also, the movie, 'Leatherheads' (George Clooney, Rene Zellweger) depicts the history of Ole Haugsrud's first NFL team, the Duluth Eskimos. Which in turn when Ole Haugsrud sold the team back to the NFL (in a deal that gave him 10% ownership of any future NFL team that started up in Minnesota) the Duluth Eskimos became the what's now called.. The Washington Redskins.
Thanks to TheViking88 for the sig!!