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01-22-2018, 09:20 AM

I’m too bitter to feel bad for the players. They played like shit.

01-22-2018, 01:20 PM

I don't feel sorry for Brian. He has been able to play 11 years with one team, in a league where most guys play 2.8 years and bounce around.

He has gotten to play in 2 NFC Championship games, and did his job in both. He can't block (well, maybe he can we just have never tried him there), he doesn't call the game plan, and he doesn't draft the players.

I'm sure he is disappointed, but when he gets home, he will realize he has a great family, wonderful children, and a bass fishing boat that starts every time. For a man in his early to mid 30s, he's living a pretty good life and has nothing to be ashamed of. He did all he could, but it is a 53 man game.

01-22-2018, 02:57 PM

Quote: @MNWILD said:
Vanguard 83, I follow this board and "The Purple Thoughts" board and the other board has some real jerks on it!! I don't like that board & decided to register here because most people seem civil, most people that is!! lol!! My Vikings may get me frustrated at times, but I'll love them until the end. They are my team, regardless of the outcome..

You must be a fan to join the Longship after that a$$kicking. I guess misery does love company? B)

This too shall pass, and the ship will sail again. It's just going to take some time.

Anyway, welcome aboard.

01-22-2018, 06:57 PM

Thank you HappyViking for welcoming me!

01-22-2018, 07:09 PM

I understand the "feeling", but honestly I feel bad for the fans. When it's all said and done everyone of those players have a significant step up on the fans. from millions of dollars per game to thousands per game. Their pain is offset by that. For fans, they pay to be hurt.

01-22-2018, 07:27 PM

Quote: @PapaScott said:
I understand the "feeling", but honestly I feel bad for the fans. When it's all said and done everyone of those players have a significant step up on the fans. from millions of dollars per game to thousands per game. Their pain is offset by that. For fans, they pay to be hurt.

nah, those guys hurt just like us fans, maybe more, yes they get compensated to play the game, but its their life long dream and to get so close and miss out.. thats more than something that goes away with a pay check, and if there was a guy that feels that way, he likely signed some where else like carolina. these guys didnt start playing football because they wanted a pay check, they did it to see themselves someday hoisting a lombardi of their own.

01-22-2018, 07:53 PM

Welcome aboard MNWILD. I'm another 50ish fan...58 this year. I also been following the Viking for many, many years and endured the disappointments. But, every year I come back with the same high hopes for the team.

01-22-2018, 09:18 PM

One pays to be disappointed, one gets paid to be disappointed. One dreams of hoisting a trophy, one dreams of their team hoisting a trophy. One has the talent to get paid, and hoist a trophy, one wishes they could and lives through the former. One gets paid to play a game they love, one pays to watch a game they love.

01-23-2018, 01:44 AM

Welcome aboard the Longship MNWild. I feel bad for Brian and Pops. He is such a good guy and he was busting his hump as he always does. He is so classy and makes me proud as a fan of this team. It was a brutal game. Hope Pops made it out of Philly ok.

01-23-2018, 01:58 AM

welcome aboard wild---I love this team deeply but can't wrap my head around how we can get so dominated in the postseason. My heart goes out to the ones that generally seem to be playing as if it could be there last game. Time stands still for no one