Dime-slot eyes? Entourage? Must be Snoop

A squinty-eyed Snoop Dogg went free-styling last week through Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.

Guardian In Home Health & Security owner Allan Borg ran into the rapper as he was arriving here for two sold-out shows at the Cabooze.

"He was a very pleasant individual," said Borg, who repeatedly called their chance encounter a "pleasure."

Snoop's eyes look like little slits in this photo taken around 9:30 a.m. Was there a faint aroma of pot around Snoop? "No, there wasn't," said Borg. "He was very nice."

Asked why Snoop shouldn't be nice, Borg said: "He came up out of the gangsta rap world. I didn't know what to expect."

At this point we have to respect the pigtailed rapper for having the savvy to maintain his longevity and stay relevant: Snoop Dogg's voice is among the TomTom choices for GPS buyers, and you hear his voice before Katy Perry starts singing her mega hit, "California Girls."

Allan and Sonya Borg of Glencoe, Minn., made this celebrity sighting while on their way to catch a Florida-bound plane.

"Snoop comes, like breaks away from his entourage. He's got headphones on. He's into a free-style rap. Just going, rapping and swaggering. He's headed right for me. I go 'SNOOP!' I'm a big guy, 6-6, and his bodyguard [who] is probably a foot taller looks at me like, Hey, don't yell out Snoop! Then Snoop took one of his headphones off and said, Can I help you, sir?"

Borg asked for a photograph and Snoop obliged. "Some more people started coming and he took pictures with probably six, seven different people," said Borg.

Then Snoop made a request: Now, I was nice enough to take a picture with you. These girls want to have their picture taken. Can you please?

Technical difficulties caused Borg to have trouble with the camera, for which he got razzed by the rapper. Taking the high road, Borg didn't respond by teasing Snoop over his inability to open those peepers.

Bobby Z's condition criticalSome contemporaries of Bobby Z were upset to learn about his heart attack via texts and Facebook chatter.

Bobby Z, who's always been so polite to me, was in critical condition Wednesday.

"He had three arteries that were blocked, and the doctors on Sunday night were able to take care of two of them," Adam Rivkin, his son, told me Wednesday. "They wanted him to get stronger in order to go through the final phase and take care of the third one. He's in critical condition and resting. He needs to build his strength so his heart can work on its own. Now they have him on help."

We're all keeping Bobby Z, his wife, Vicki Rivkin, and the kids in our prayers.

Say what?From comedian Lizz Winstead, via Twitter (@lizzwinstead):

"Met with mom and her Medicare liaison today. Mom told us she has an eye condition known as 'Immaculate degeneration.'"

Just saying ...Take this as a suggestion, Vikings and Vikettes.

Neither Pittsburgh nor Green Bay has cheerleaders. The lack of NFL cheerleaders (and most mature people get over the need to do this in public before college graduation) has been a subject of interest in stories preceding Sunday's Super Bowl kickoff.

These teams made it all the way to the big game without scantily clad Roads Scholars shaking their pom-poms and other valuables on the sidelines. And somehow Steelers and Packers fans still know when to cheer!