Each week, commenter Stu tracks down a former Minnesota sports figure about whom you might have forgotten: -----------
THE HUNT DOWN
Name: Koren Robinson Claim to Fame, Minnesota: A wide receiver/kick returner for your Minnesota Vikings in 2005. Made the Pro Bowl as a kick returner that season. His breakaway speed proved insufficient in getting him through St. Peter on 169 without being arrested for DWI and fleeing in a motor vehicle the following August, and he was released by the Purple soon thereafter. Claim to Fame, Everywhere Else: After a celebrated college career at North Carolina State, Robinson was drafted 9th overall in 2001 by the Seattle Seahawks, who also cut ties with him due to his off-the-field issues. Robinson caught on with the Packers after the Vikings let him go, and as this video of the cheering throngs at Lambeau Field celebrating his first Green Bay touchdown indicates, Robinson should be considered a Packer-for-life. Indeed, it's hard to dispute that Koren Robinson is what the Green Bay Packers are all about. Robinson would finish his NFL career with a second stint in Seattle, and would go on to play for the UFL's New York Sentinels and Florida Tuskers. Where He Is Now: it appears that he is back in his native North Carolina, where he was one of that state's worst delinquent taxpayers in 2010. And 2011. Here's a virtual flyer for an event he was a part of in March. [Proprietor Note: Luxurious Phantom jokes go here]. He can also be found in a number of YouTube golfing videos, which means that this Raleigh-based member of the Golf Junkies Online forum may in fact be the Koren Robinson, formerly of the NFL's Green Bay Packers. Is He On Twitter: no. Has He Been in a Twitter Feud with Patrick Reusse: no. Glorious Randomness: Minnesota's work in the 2001 NFL Draft can best be described in visual terms by this painting.
