Misery loves company don't they? All of the disappointments from years past. I've only had to endure those since the early 90's.
Obviously 98. This was the real first time I had my heart crushed into a fine powder. I was laying on the living room floor while my dad kept nagging me to help unload firewood. That entire game was in slow motion.
Dimitrius Underwood anybody?
2000, 41-0. Jesus Christ that one was hard to watch. But that one wasn't as bad because it was over at freak'n halftime. This was followed by Robert Smith retiring and a tragic Korey Stringer death.
4th and 24(and no time) that cost the Vikings the North against the Cardinals. Josh FREAK'N McCown......
2005-Love Boat, Culpeppers career and everything else down the drain....
2009 NFC Championship-12 men in the huddle, phantom PI call on the sideline, Favre throwing across the body. I was in Vegas for this one sitting in Bally's sports book with my brother and a couple buddies. What a great setup we had and everything was going right. But I swear to god I looked over at my brother and told him, "watch this, they'll find a way to lose". And I just sat in silence as it happened. Watched grown men cry at that end in Vikings gear(not sure if they had a lot of money on it or they were just that devastated???)
Then the ensuing Brad Childress/Lesley Frazier era. This era started with our dome caving in and having to play outside at the Gopher's stadium. Favre being out of shape and shoved out their to end his career on a frozen field . Even made the playoffs in 2012, to lose to the Packers with little to no offense.
Then we're in the no mans land a land known as Matt Cassel and Christian Ponder. Finished 5-10 and thankfully let the nicest coach ever go, Leslie.
Which brings me to this era. Mike Zimmer. In his first year he took the worst defense in the NFL into the 11th. The next year to the playoffs and had the 5th best defense. This was one of the top five hardest losses as a Vikings fan. Mother ********** Blair Walsh hitting 40 yarders all game and then can't hit a chip shot to beat the Seahawks in negative temps.
Bridgewater was finally coming into his own. We FINALLY have a Franchise Quarterback. FINALLY.
August 2016, non-contact injury. That one sticks out to me. Nobody knew how bad that injury would be, but by reports you could tell it was bad. Nobody was really talking about when Bridgewater COULD return, but IF.
That season was destined for failure. 5-0 to 8-8. It was just the cherry on top the Bridgewater injury.
And here we are. First game of the year, Vikes are fire. Took it to the Saints and Bradford had the best game of his career. They look to be real. Then reports came out that Bradford has a "nagging" injury. That injury turned into most of the season. On top of that Dalvin goes down with a "non-contact" knee injury while starting to gain steam. I believe he was second to Hunt in rushing yards at the time.
And yet here we are. Defense has played out of this world. Keenum has done exactly what is asked of him and Zimmer has done an A+ job......
All of this over some silly sport......lol
Point being, maybe we can recruit a few Chief fans to send some hail mary's on Sunday?
Obviously 98. This was the real first time I had my heart crushed into a fine powder. I was laying on the living room floor while my dad kept nagging me to help unload firewood. That entire game was in slow motion.
Dimitrius Underwood anybody?
2000, 41-0. Jesus Christ that one was hard to watch. But that one wasn't as bad because it was over at freak'n halftime. This was followed by Robert Smith retiring and a tragic Korey Stringer death.
4th and 24(and no time) that cost the Vikings the North against the Cardinals. Josh FREAK'N McCown......
2005-Love Boat, Culpeppers career and everything else down the drain....
2009 NFC Championship-12 men in the huddle, phantom PI call on the sideline, Favre throwing across the body. I was in Vegas for this one sitting in Bally's sports book with my brother and a couple buddies. What a great setup we had and everything was going right. But I swear to god I looked over at my brother and told him, "watch this, they'll find a way to lose". And I just sat in silence as it happened. Watched grown men cry at that end in Vikings gear(not sure if they had a lot of money on it or they were just that devastated???)
Then the ensuing Brad Childress/Lesley Frazier era. This era started with our dome caving in and having to play outside at the Gopher's stadium. Favre being out of shape and shoved out their to end his career on a frozen field . Even made the playoffs in 2012, to lose to the Packers with little to no offense.
Then we're in the no mans land a land known as Matt Cassel and Christian Ponder. Finished 5-10 and thankfully let the nicest coach ever go, Leslie.
Which brings me to this era. Mike Zimmer. In his first year he took the worst defense in the NFL into the 11th. The next year to the playoffs and had the 5th best defense. This was one of the top five hardest losses as a Vikings fan. Mother ********** Blair Walsh hitting 40 yarders all game and then can't hit a chip shot to beat the Seahawks in negative temps.
Bridgewater was finally coming into his own. We FINALLY have a Franchise Quarterback. FINALLY.
August 2016, non-contact injury. That one sticks out to me. Nobody knew how bad that injury would be, but by reports you could tell it was bad. Nobody was really talking about when Bridgewater COULD return, but IF.
That season was destined for failure. 5-0 to 8-8. It was just the cherry on top the Bridgewater injury.
And here we are. First game of the year, Vikes are fire. Took it to the Saints and Bradford had the best game of his career. They look to be real. Then reports came out that Bradford has a "nagging" injury. That injury turned into most of the season. On top of that Dalvin goes down with a "non-contact" knee injury while starting to gain steam. I believe he was second to Hunt in rushing yards at the time.
And yet here we are. Defense has played out of this world. Keenum has done exactly what is asked of him and Zimmer has done an A+ job......
All of this over some silly sport......lol
Point being, maybe we can recruit a few Chief fans to send some hail mary's on Sunday?
