Dan Cole

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Dan Cole, sports talk personality on the FAN sports radio network, broadcasts from the flagship station KFAN in St. Louis Park, Minnesota, from noon - 2pm (affectionately known as “nothing at noon”) Monday through Friday. Known as the "Common Man" or just "Common", Dan is the first to admit that he has excelled at everything he has ever attempted.

Born in Detroit, Michigan, Dan moved at an early age to the Twin Cities. Married to 'Potato', he has two sons, 'deuce' and 'tre'. Cole states that he was an exceptional athlete and could have starred in any sport. He was an exceptional pass catching tight end during his Peewee football days, but chose to concentrate on golf. Nowadays. Dan is a golf freak and talks about his game endlessly on his show. Cole was appointed the Official Unofficial Ambassador to Minnesota Golf by former Governor and KFAN host Jesse Ventura.

While most of the KFAN hosts have guests to fill air time, Common uses his "creative" mind to fill his show with original, however often recycled, thoughts on politics, religion, world affairs and occasionally sports. The creator of the phrase '13, 14' (ex: It's a couple 13,14 minutes before 2). The only regular guest on Common's show is Dan Barreiro during the so-called "Super Show". Dan has had his fair share of mistakes and the largest one was easily he attempt at creating a show with his brother and sister called "Common and the Family Cole." By all accounts, the show was unlistenable and KFAN quickly moved him to noon to slow down the bleeding.

Callers to the Common Man program are encouraged to assign monikers to themselves. The monikers are generally related to the callers' personal interests, career or other witty phrases.

After his contract wasn't renewed, Cole recently concluded a recurring segment on KMSP-TV where he provided social and sports commentary. Cole also hosts a radio show concentrating on golf matters that airs Saturday mornings on KFAN.

Although "The Common Man" has little to no knowledge on the subject of sports he does, however, possess the uncanny ability to predict certain incidents and results of any particular sporting event. This gift has given way to an alter ego known as “Nostracommonus”. Common’s psychic ability has been well documented throughout his illustrious career as a social commentator, none so greater than the Brad Radke homerun prediction he made in the early summer of 2006. On this monumental occasion Dan was able to precisely pinpoint the exact, inning (1st), hitter (Troy Glaus), pitch count (1-0), number of runners on base (1) and even more impressively, the time of day (6:20 Central) that the, inevitable, first homerun would be granted lift off and launched from Skydome by way of a Brad Radke “fast ball”. Again, this was not the first of his many, many accurate predictions, nevertheless, it was the most notable.

Common occasionally does a bit entitled "The Seventh Inning Stretch" which mimics sports talk radio shows.

On February 28, 2007, Common announced that because his contract had expired with KFAN and had yet to be renewed, he was leaving the station. The station's website later featured photographs of Common cleaning out his cubicle and being escorted out of the building by station officials. This turned out to be a "bit," however, and Common was indeed back in his normal 12-2 slot the very next day, much to some listeners' dismay. However, most people feel that this is just the station's way of doing a listener inventory. That is, when Common announces he is leaving (approximately twice a year), people call in both in support of him, and in pure ecstasy that he will no longer be gracing Minnesota with his radio presence. That way, KFAN knows that there are still at least 50 people listening during the noon to two time slot.

[edit] Self-proclaimed Nicknames

The Common Man
Radio Romeo
Homersota.com Webmaster
Dream of the Everyday Housewife
Official, Unofficial Ambasador to Minnesota Golf
Often secretly referred to by Dan Barreiro as "Mini Me"
Nostracommonus
Rubber Band Man is nickname given to him by Dan Barreiro for his ability to stretch the truth.