The Minnesota Miracle
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I’m starting to feel a little bad for that poor kid. Dudes a rookie and this will follow him his whole career.
I was there. Truly magical atmosphere. Beyond loud.
The city really wants in.
Bring It Home is the theme and you can feel the electricity.
The city really wants in.
Bring It Home is the theme and you can feel the electricity.
As was I. The entire atmosphere was incredible and the bring it home video with all the former players was amazing.
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Entire crowd stood and cheered every defensive snap. The people want it so bad.
Minnesota sports fans are long tortured.
Would love to go to parade.
Minnesota sports fans are long tortured.
Would love to go to parade.
Will be so much fun to watch one fan base get its guts ripped out on Sunday...
The Iowa Hawkeyes. Also, the Vikings have been a "shitty team" up to this year, and for many many years total. Weird to try to shame someone else about that. Congrats on the year and playoffs thus far, as I said, your utter disappointment will be delicious.
This is your very successful franchise recently? Since 2000:
8-8
11-5
7-9
5-10
10-6
3-13
6-10
12-4
10-6
8-8
6-10
9-7
8-8
9-7
6-10
5-11
11-5
134-137. 3 lost wildcards, one current chance to win the conference. Sure, love your team all you want, more power to you. I wouldn't consider myself a hater, because I was only going to laugh at your sadness, and wanted to post as much. I had no intention of further posts, except you challenged me on it. I posted that they've been a "shitty team", which was your term for presumably all other teams not still in the playoffs, and I would say going 6-10 and 5-11 constitute shitty up to this year, as I posted. Hell, just this decade they are under .500. If that isn't "shitty team", under your definition, what is? The LIONS have a better record over that timeframe. Only the Bears have been worse in-division, and I'd gladly laugh at them losing with their hopes this high too.
I was saying the same thing to a buddy....
I think he was so intent on not getting called for interference he just got discombobulated or something.......
Pretty easy for him not to get called, just wait for the catch and tackle him. Time was out.
Sure, if he had got OOB, although I didn't think the clock was that close. Happy to be wrong though.
No, time was not out. There is 5 seconds on the clock when Diggs feet hit the ground after catching it. He is about 2 yards from the sideline. He caught it at the 34. If he just waited for the catch and then tried to tackle him, it would have given Diggs a good chance to get out of bounds to set up a field goal. Hell, I was screaming, "get out of bounds, get out of bounds" at first.
Its still a crappy play by the safety, but its not as simple as everyone is making it out to be. If he had let Diggs bring it down safely before trying to make a play, then most likely the Vikings get a chance at a game winning field goal.
In a zero sum game where for every win there must be a loss (excepting the very rare NFL tie), a franchise that is .500 is hardly "shitty". Sure, they aren't great; they aren't the Patriots. But I think we can save "shitty" for the truly hapless like the Browns, Bills, etc. They are mediocre, which is what most franchises in the NFL are over an extended period of time.
You know what, I agree with you. I was making fun of his anger, believing that I must be a fan of a "shitty team", presumably because they wouldn't be in the playoffs. I am happy to hold that for the Browns. But we aren't even talking about extended period of decades, the Vikings have been mediocre, at best, this decade, right up until this surprising season. And even the most die-hard Vikings fan shouldn't be pretending they saw this and Keenum coming.
There it is, you just went back half a century to try and make a point. Ignore anything that I actually posted, especially about recency. I presume you don't give the same latitude to Husker fans, so enjoy your hypocrisy. Thing is, I won't be disappointed if they win. I'll only be laughing at you when and if they lose. Them winning will not bring me down one notch.
color me not impressed at all. I lived in the Twin Cites for upwards of a decade and it is a sh*tty fan base in addition to its mediocre to miserable performance.
I think, with the kneel down game, Favre's pick in 2009, 41-0, five superbowls and all losses, it is fair to reference 'getting your heart ripped out'. I mean, you say haters, I would say history.
I have already posted about this, but seeing thousands of "fans" walk out of the metrodome and literally throw their Viking hats/penants (not to mention those ridiculous Viking horn/wig things) into trash can says about all I need to know. The guy starting a bonfire of purple gear in his front yard on the local news is just icing.
FWIW I was a big fan of AP, and a big fan of the Favre-led Vikings. It would also be quite fun to see a Superbowl with its home team. That is all just outweighed by the enjoyment of laughing at your misery. It is honestly amazing how many Vikings "fans" there are this year, and how many Packers "fans" there were just a few short years ago, and how many Bears "fans" there were at their superbowl.
Just remember that he's 21, has a ton of money and can nail hot chicks pretty much when ever he wants. That will make it easier.
I am immune from it. After 1998 I assume they will lose in gut wrenching fashion. I will be disappointed but at the end of the day win or lose I still go to work the next day.
Douche New Orleans coach was mocking the Skol chant right before walk off TD. Karma is a bitch sometimes.
No doubt it will crush people but I look at it like walking past a hot female guard on the way to the electric chair. Sure she is sexy but I know where I am headed.
Since you have an open mind, your antrcdotal references are enough for me to indict an entire fan base...
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I don't know. He has handled it well so far, and given his interception is a big reason the Saints even had a chance to win, I think he'll recover. Crazy play. Demonstrates why, in sports, never assume anything and treat every play as an opportunity.
The results of this decade are out there. I agree with last year, with Bradford, and they went 8-8. That wasn't the feeling anybody I talked to had going in to this year.
Again, I lived there for most of a decade. I do not have time to address every single one of them, but I have encountered the vast majority in one way or another.Since you have an open mind, your antrcdotal references are enough for me to indict an entire fan base...
So you’ve met the vast majority of the fan base? I’ve been here for almost two decades, so I must be blind or in the “shitty” part of the fan base.
This is rich coming from a Viking's fan who has been pretty much beaten down in this thread.
The concern that I heard the most was the O-line and for good reason. With the defense, healthy Bradford, Dalvin Cook and the improving passing game, hopes in pre-season were still pretty high around here, at least from my perspective.
They have a nice 3 year window of opportunity here, we’ll see if they piss it away.
