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 A Big, Fat, SO WHAT? 

Anything to do with the CFL.  No one cares.  So what.  Not relevant.  Also this multi-national ""American Football"" angle deserves a big, fat yawn and another so what.  We know who Bud Grant is, we know who the Minnesota Vikings are, and there's only one football league on the planet, and it's NOT the pimple-faced CFL.  And nothing anyone has ever done in the CFL merits any notice whatsoever, most particularly diluting the great contributions of this great man to a great team.  All that other trash is a distraction away from what's important, and subordinates the significance of the man, the team and the game to a whole bunch of irrelevant people that don't care anyways.  This is what happens when ivory-towered (and foreign) academics write articles they have no connection to.  Any 8th grade Minnesota drop-out understands who Bud Grant is and why he's significant, however international egg-heads might get the impression that this is a refined and polite sport played to illustrate the deep and shared spiritual values between the United States and our irrelevant neighbors to the north, instead of smash-mouth warfare on an American Gridiron managed by giants like Bud Grant.  You can take your international, touchie-feelie, swami-guru political correctness and stuff it.173.174.222.48  "