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01-02-2018, 04:58 AM

I am pretty satisfied with the team these last couple of years. This has been an especially memorable one. If they go one and done I am still proud of these guys.
Im not going to worry about the rest.

01-02-2018, 11:35 AM

Its not easy getting to the Superbowl. And its not like Minnesota is the overwhelming favorite to get there, the NFC is loaded. If the Vikings play decently, but end up losing a close game, why would that devastate anyone? It happens. Its not Blair Walsh missing a 27 yd FG.....its not Favre throwing a last minute INT in the NFCC and Peterson fumbling 4 times. A gross, gut-wrenching loss in a horrible ending, yes now that is soul crushing. We've had those.

Minnesota is currently 2/1 to get to the Superbowl, very good odds. The best in the NFC. But not by much. Its not a smoke and mirrors team, its very solid. But they'll need a little luck and make some plays to get to the big dance, like any other team that might get there.

01-02-2018, 03:17 PM

The perspective I have had all year is one game at a time and I'm still going with the fact that no team that has hosted the superbowl has even made it to the conference championship game. So the Vikings winning the next game is the biggest game, anything beyond that is icing on the cake. I believe they can and it's better than I believe they will and of course better than they can't. IT's TIME. It's time for ROI

01-03-2018, 12:56 AM

I was 7 years old in '69/'70 for super bowl IV. My father was going to the game ($165 for plane, hotel and game ticket). I asked him who he was cheering for. He said the Vikings and I've been a fan since. Been through all of the heartbreaks. This year it finally happens.

01-03-2018, 01:16 PM

Quote: @MoosicMan said:
I was 7 years old in '69/'70 for super bowl IV. My father was going to the game ($165 for plane, hotel and game ticket). I asked him who he was cheering for. He said the Vikings and I've been a fan since. Been through all of the heartbreaks. This year it finally happens.

I certainly can relate to this...
Saw all four Super Bowl losses.
Saw all the NFC Championship losses including the hail mary pass. The Altanta and New Orleans losses.
Finally, a slight ray of sunshine hope for the Minnesota Vikings and their fans.

01-03-2018, 01:29 PM

Quote: @ArizonaViking said:

@MoosicMan said:
I was 7 years old in '69/'70 for super bowl IV. My father was going to the game ($165 for plane, hotel and game ticket). I asked him who he was cheering for. He said the Vikings and I've been a fan since. Been through all of the heartbreaks. This year it finally happens.

I certainly can relate to this...
Saw all four Super Bowl losses.
Saw all the NFC Championship losses including the hail mary pass. The Altanta and New Orleans losses.
Finally, a slight ray of sunshine hope for the Minnesota Vikings and their fans.

Hail Mary was a Divisional Game, not a Championship - just to keep that bit of ugly history straight Wink

01-03-2018, 02:51 PM

I want to have the excitement of the Vikings making it to the Super Bowl, as it's something I've never experienced in my conscious lifetime. I was barely 3 years old the last time it happened. Win or lose, I want the experience of seeing the team there. It's like the old saying goes "Better to have loved and lost than to have never loved" I've never experienced the "love" and I want it!! There's like 3 generations of Vikings fans that haven't had that experience. It's time!!

01-03-2018, 02:59 PM

Quote: @AllBS said:
I want to have the excitement of the Vikings making it to the Super Bowl, as it's something I've never experienced in my conscious lifetime. I was barely 3 years old the last time it happened. Win or lose, I want the experience of seeing the team there. It's like the old saying goes "Better to have loved and lost than to have never loved" I've never experienced the "love" and I want it!! There's like 3 generations of Vikings fans that haven't had that experience. It's time!!

I am in the same boat... however one difference, if we cant win it... I dont want to be in it. I spent my whole life getting 4 loses thrown in my face, when we get there again, I dont want a good game, I want a dominating performance start to finish, we are already going to hear about it being a home game, i want everything else to be squashed. and for the love of God I dont want to hear about 5 loses...

01-03-2018, 04:48 PM

Quote: @purplefaithful said:

@ArizonaViking said:

@MoosicMan said:
I was 7 years old in '69/'70 for super bowl IV. My father was going to the game ($165 for plane, hotel and game ticket). I asked him who he was cheering for. He said the Vikings and I've been a fan since. Been through all of the heartbreaks. This year it finally happens.

I certainly can relate to this...
Saw all four Super Bowl losses.
Saw all the NFC Championship losses including the hail mary pass. The Altanta and New Orleans losses.
Finally, a slight ray of sunshine hope for the Minnesota Vikings and their fans.

Hail Mary was a Divisional Game, not a Championship - just to keep that bit of ugly history straight

Thanks for the correction. And right about the ugly history or remembrance.

01-03-2018, 04:48 PM

Quote: @JimmyinSD said:

@AllBS said:
I want to have the excitement of the Vikings making it to the Super Bowl, as it's something I've never experienced in my conscious lifetime. I was barely 3 years old the last time it happened. Win or lose, I want the experience of seeing the team there. It's like the old saying goes "Better to have loved and lost than to have never loved" I've never experienced the "love" and I want it!! There's like 3 generations of Vikings fans that haven't had that experience. It's time!!
I am in the same boat... however one difference, if we cant win it... I dont want to be in it. I spent my whole life getting 4 loses thrown in my face, when we get there again, I dont want a good game, I want a dominating performance start to finish, we are already going to hear about it being a home game, i want everything else to be squashed. and for the love of God I dont want to hear about 5 loses...

This is my biggest fear as well. I don't want to break that dubious tie with Buffalo (I know Denver is part of that history but they've won a couple SBs and us and Buffalo have not). It's all or nothing for me too.
My Vikings checked one box off for me this season--they kept the Packers from having a SB appearance at US Bank. When the realization hit me last fall that our hated, reviled, stanky, disgusting rival COULD get to the SB in OUR NEW STADIUM and get a SB win there before we even had our first SB win I wanted to throat punch Rodgers. Thankfully, he walked into a. Barr instead Big Grin