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10-17-2022, 08:57 PM

Quote: @Skodin said:

@MaroonBells said:

@Chuckf said:

@purplefaithful said:

@Riphawkins said:
While I’m satisfied with the win, or at least enjoying it. Why does this team historically let garbage teams with bad or backup QB’s have their best games against them?
It boggles the mind!
DiVISIONAL games...

They are usually close and not pretty. Even in Bud Grants days.

Go look at 1976 results. The last Super Bowl year and one of the Vikings better teams albeit getting long in the tooth. Beat Detroit 10-9 due to a blocked extra point. Beat the Bears at home 20-19 ALSO due to a blocked extra point. Lost at Chicago 13-14. Lost at SF 16-20. Only losses of a season of which they tied the Rams, beat a 100% healthy Pittsburgh and went to the Super Bowl. Almost lost to Green Bay 17-10 up in Milwaukee. Vikings didn't roll anybody back in that era either. People are going to have to realize 1998 was an outlier that has only happened a few times in NFL history.
This is a very interesting post. It's funny how in our memory--in MY memory anyway, as a 12 year old in 1976--it just seemed like we blew out all the bad teams, but clearly that wasn't the case. Thanks for posting this. Adds a lot of perspective.
And the best run of the franchise in my mind was the 88 team that went 6-1 over the span of 7 7 games scoring 226 to 46 in the victories

The loss was a 3 point loss to the Niners on the infamous Young scramble.

We win that game, the Niners don't make the playoffs and the Vikings are the number 1 seed

I guess it doesn't matter how you win, as long as you do

That isn't even the worst part of 1988. The Vikings got swept by the Packers that year. They beat the Vikings 34-14 IN MINNESOTA and beat the Vikings 18-6 at home. The Packers 1988 record was 4-12. 4 and effing 12!!!! Just beat those losers ONCE and the Vikings have the number one seed as well. UGH!!!

10-17-2022, 09:05 PM

Quote: @Riphawkins said:

@purplefaithful said:

@Riphawkins said:

@Chuckf said:

@purplefaithful said:

@Riphawkins said:
While I’m satisfied with the win, or at least enjoying it. Why does this team historically let garbage teams with bad or backup QB’s have their best games against them?
It boggles the mind!
DiVISIONAL games...

They are usually close and not pretty. Even in Bud Grants days.

Go look at 1976 results. The last Super Bowl year and one of the Vikings better teams albeit getting long in the tooth. Beat Detroit 10-9 due to a blocked extra point. Beat the Bears at home 20-19 ALSO due to a blocked extra point. Lost at Chicago 13-14. Lost at SF 16-20. Only losses of a season of which they tied the Rams, beat a 100% healthy Pittsburgh and went to the Super Bowl. Almost lost to Green Bay 17-10 up in Milwaukee. Vikings didn't roll anybody back in that era either. People are going to have to realize 1998 was an outlier that has only happened a few times in NFL history.
Different era, different style offenses were being ran then. Bud Grant was the early Zimmer. Get a lead and let his defense keep it. The rules hadn’t been bent towards the offense.

I have no reason to think ‘98 should happen every year, or every game, but in ‘09 they beat the Lions 27-13, and 27-10, Packers 30-23 and 38-26, and Bears 36-10 and then lost 30-36, which honestly was them shitting the bed.

So, I guess they don’t always play down to their competition, but seem to do more often than not. Specially when a major player is hurt and replaced by a nobody.

I believe they went 1/3 that December, including that loss to the Bears. Cost them home-field and won them a trip to the Superdome 1/2010.

I would have loved to have played the CG in the Metrodome instead...OH well

Yeah, that December was brutal. Not sure if they got big heads and thought they just needed to show up, but I wasn’t feeling very good about the playoffs.
But, they gave us just enough hope to suck us back in, specially how the offense played early in the New Orleans game.

Still hurts!

A really bad Carolina team curb stomped them. So did the Cardinals. Bears jumped out to a huge lead and the Vikings came roaring back and got robbed in OT. Hunter Hillenmeyer BLANTANTLY grabbed and jerked Peterson's facemask so bad it almost twisted his head completely backwards and he fumbled. Should have been a facemask and VIkings ball 1st and 10 on the Bears 30 yard line. Instead Bears got the ball back