lanyard wrote:Thanks for the Positive Mental Attitude PA Jr.
The 20 years from 1970-1990: 11 playoff wins, 3 SUPERBOWL losses. Starting Quarterbacks: 11.
Brad effing Childress was our head coach. Les phucking Steckle. Anyone care to start the list of Viking's assistants that went on to win Superbowls as Head Coaches, then tally the head coaches that went on to win, wait, that even WENT ON to continue being head coaches after leaving MN?
Zimmer doesn't have it in him.
I think Zim might have it in him....
Zim has it in him! Zim has it in him! Zim has it in him!
The Vikings are the Champions of Choking. No team has been as consistently good yet never won it all. Of the teams that have never won a superbowl, four are expansion franchises younger than the superbowl itself....none of the teams have a franchise winning record....
....except for the Minnesota Vikings.
You talk about the 70's and yeah, you're right...the Vikings were really good then. Hell, they had a better record for the decade than the Steelers, and they won four superbowls!
You have to realize that I enjoy nothing more than the Vikings choking. The 2015 team that went 11-5 and lost at home to Seattle on Blair Walsh's missed chip shot? Loved it. Or the 2016 team, first squad to play in the new stadium, that started the season 5-0 only to choke the rest of the way to a 3-8 record and miss the playoffs? Loved it. The 2017 NFC championship game might be my favorite Vikings game of all time....team of destiny....looked like the first team to play at home for the superbowl...Minneapolis Miracle had totally reversed the curse and flipped the script....went into Philadelphia and promptly marched down the field to a 7-0 lead and even I.....me....the biggest Vikings cynic ever....believed they might actually be a team of destiny....for a split second I thought, "Holy Shit---this might actually be something special, in a way that's about winning!"
And then the bottom fell out and they got their asses kicked.
Hell, the eagles fans had the team shitting their pants inside their bus on the way out of town. Even the Vikings fans that went to the game got their asses kicked.
It was glorious!
My dream season is the same as that, but instead of it happening in the NFC championship game....to have it happen in the superbowl. My dream season has them going into the big game heavily favored....as in a total cinch to win it....only to choke in epic fashion.....like the Falcons did against the Patriots a few years back....blowing like a 28-0 lead at halftime. Think that but the Vikings instead of the Falcons, and that is my ultimate hope for the team as a fan.
If we win a superbowl we're just another "also ran" mediocre NFL franchise.....winning it all would eliminate all the great history. It'd take away all the epic gut punches, banish "the crying blondes" from '98 to nothingness.
There was once an infomercial that ran late at night on TV for NFL team jackets. They were leather and pretty nice, and on one arm had the team's superbowl wins denoted by the year they won it inside a team colored football, and on the back it had the team logo and said "Super Bowl Champs." So they of course showed the Steelers black Letterman style jacket with their six leather yellow footballs on black leather sleeves, each year they won it on the football...then the Broncos, Patriots, Cowboys, Niners, etc., and they even had the most recent superbowl winner the Seattle Seahawks with another really nice jacket and their one football with the most recent superbowl year on a football on the sleeve. The jackets weren't cheap, which was kind of odd considering it was a late night infomercial.....
.....yet I called them anyways to ask to purchase a Vikings "Superbowl Championship" jacket with no footballs on the sleeve. They didn't have one and didn't get it. I even asked if I could somehow special order one that said "Champions of Choking" instead. No dice.
Anyways, as Mike Tice once said, "Enjoy the Season."
Zim indeed does have it in him. I think he's destined to be only the second head coach in franchise history to get us to the big game, be favored, and then choke in epic fashion.
That's why I like him so much.