Minnesota's professional sports teams share their love for Prince
The Minnesota Twins are on the road, but back home, Target Field is lit purple for Prince.
The team tweeted a photo of the stadium with an image of the late artist and the words "Good night sweet Prince" on the Jumbotron, captioned, "Fitting that it's raining in Minneapolis today." A Twins representative told TMZ the team is contemplating paying tribute to Prince during their next home game. "I'm sure [it] will include a lot of Prince music," the rep said. "I don't know if it'll happen, but we're talking about instead of a moment of silence, having a moment of sexy."
Every professional sports teams in Minnesota honored Prince on their social media accounts, tweeting their tributes and giving their avatars a purple tint. Catherine Garcia
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Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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