Give the Minnesota Golden Gophers points for tapping into everyone’s inner vintage video game nerd when promoting next season’s home opener.
Surely, Minnesota was already excited when the Big Ten announced the 2015 primetime schedule and slated the Gophers tilt with TCU for ESPN. They put that excitement to creative use with a Twitter announcement inspired 1980s arcade legend Frogger.
Round One. Primetime on @ESPN. pic.twitter.com/0e4k11ixHC
— Minnesota Football (@GopherFootball) April 23, 2015
No, not the newly-revamped Frogger that you can play online. We’re talking about the pixelated, neon-colored old school wonder that was nestled in the back of the arcade when we were kids because it was a #throwback back when the “hashtag” was still called the “pound sign.