Reusse, Jay Leno and the Fighting Ahos of Cokato

A Star Tribune headline showed up on the Tonight Show (and don't pretend it's not funny).

November 20, 2012 at 5:54PM
Tom and Karen Aho, with their 15 children; 12 became football players for Dassel-Cokato.
Tom and Karen Aho, with their 15 children; 12 became football players for Dassel-Cokato. (Dassel-Cokato Enterprise-Dispatch/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Upload tries to avoid juvenile humor -- the 12-year-old-boys-snickering-over-funny-names-and-stuff kind of thing.

But sometimes we can't help ourselves.

A recent column by Patrick Reusse on a football-playing family from Cokato turned up in Jay Leno's Headlines segment Monday night.

Here's the column.

And here's the video. (Our Patrick shows up at about the 1:45 mark.):

OK, we're done now.

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about the writer

Howard Sinker

Digital Sports Editor

Howard Sinker is digital sports editor at startribune.com and curates the website's Sports Upload blog. He is also a senior instructor in Media and Cultural Studies at Macalester College in St. Paul.

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