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While in Denver we met with the College Democrats during their morning seminars on environment and religion in politics, and today we went to see what the College Republican National Committee was up to.

We stopped by the Minneapolis Convention Center this morning and found them playing an interactive computer game created by Visa in conjunction with the NFL and the Players Association called “Financial Football Training Camp.”

The coach for the mock Minnesota Vikings team was former Vikings All-Pro Cris Carter, who says that he wants young people to be “financially responsible” and develop “good spending and saving habits.”

The game, which gives each team yards based on correct answers, included questions like “Which is a more liquid asset?” and “What is the latest time that a telemarketer can call your home?”

The College Republican National Committee has about 500 members at the RNC and a couple dozen of them attended the event today to play financial football and chat with Cris Carter.

Non-partisan Must Mean Republican

We grabbed several bags of potato chips for the road and left the College Republican event for CivicFest, a weeklong museum exhibit and vendor fair billed as a “non-partisan civic event celebrating American democracy and Minnesota statehood.”

With life-size replicas of Sen. John McCain, “NoBama” bumper stickers and vendor signs welcoming guns on the premises, it took us a while to figure out what was non-partisan about the event.

Turns out there were Air Force One, Oval Office and presidential limousine replicas with a miniature White House, which were all pretty non-partisan. The event, of course, wouldn't have been complete without a walking, talking Uncle Sam and Statue of Liberty.