Well, I guess it kinda makes sense. You know, “blooming,” “blossoms” … “Fighting,” “battling,” maybe “awesome” … Ah, heck, why didn’t they just go with Eagles or Tigers or somethin’?
Blooming Prairie is a town of 2,000 located in the southeast part of Minnesota. It looks like it’s about a 45-minute drive from Rochester, but otherwise in the middle of absolute nowhere.
These pix all look kinda the same after awhile
Interestingly, BP (not goin’ to type that in again) once had a history of selling bootleg liquor. It seems that BP is in the corner of one county, a “wet” one, and serviced the three “dry” counties all around it. Now, nothing really beats Awesome Blossoms, but Bootleggers and Moonshiners aren’t too bad in themselves.
Can you believe I found a pic for that?
“Notable people” include a couple of state legislators and an actor I never heard of.
Said actor, Josh Braaten, far right
The high school is on the far west side of town. With a mere 350 students, the school somehow snagged a state football championship in 2019.
There’s an odd entry in Wikipedia for the school, under “School Spirit”:
“Blooming Prairie High showed its school spirit in March 2011 when it showed support for Jordan Ressler, a junior who died in a motor vehicle accident in November 2010, by displaying the University of Texas logo in a human form and by wearing the distinctive orange clothing of the team he loved.”
Et voila!
Really couldn’t find a mascot per se, but there is this guy:
BTW, the school’s colors are black and white. Kind of ironic for a blossom, wouldn’t you say?
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