Vikings not fueled by Saints' upset in 2009 NFC Title Game

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Vikings not fueled by Saints' upset in 2009 NFC title game because most weren't even NFL players thenOnly three players on the Vikings' active roster were even in the NFL at the time of the game. So while fans might be viewing this game as a chance for closure after a painful playoff loss, the current Vikings aren't.
That game you’ve been thinking about since Sunday night, when it became official the New Orleans Saints would be the Vikings’ first playoff opponent? Mike Zimmer was there.
His son Adam, now the Vikings’ linebackers coach, was in his fourth season as an assistant linebackers coach with the Saints in 2009, when they secured the NFC’s No. 1 seed before playing host to the Vikings in the NFC Championship Game. But if you’re looking for Zimmer to say he was rooting for his son’s team — and by extension, against his future employer — in what turned out to be the most painful playoff loss in recent Vikings history, well, you’re out of luck.
“I was just sitting there observing. I wasn’t really rooting for anybody,” Zimmer said. “I had some — what are those? Hurricanes.”
And thus the connection between this Vikings-Saints matchup and the events of Jan. 24, 2010, when the Saints beat the Vikings 31-28 to win the NFC title in a game that would be re-litigated for years in its connection to the Saints’ Bountygate scandal, was officially severed. The two teams have a combined five players on their rosters that played in that game; Brian Robison is the only one left on the Vikings’ roster.
http://www.startribune.com/vikings-not-f...468371343/

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“I hear all the time that this is a ‘revenge game,’ that we get a chance to get revenge,” wide receiver Jarius Wright said. “It means nothing to us. We just want to win a game. We’re just trying to go to the next level. We’re going to worry about just winning this game, and not worry about revenge, or whoever’s mad.”
Wright, a sophomore at Arkansas at the time, was asked Monday what he remembered about the matchup. “Just that they were out to hurt [Brett] Favre. That’s one thing I remember,” Wright said. “I know [Saints coach] Sean Payton got in trouble for that, and was suspended [for a year]. But it was a little before my time, so I didn’t really watch the NFL like that.”
Robison, who was a third-year defensive end on that team, had little interest in using it as fuel when asked about it last week. “I’m not worried about that; this is 2017,” he said. “That was a long time ago.”

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Exactly. I'm glad to read this. And too funny that Zimmer was having hurricanes!

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F that i want revenge. 

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X@AGRforever said:
F that i want revenge. 

ME TOO!!!! LOL

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I want to make 53 copies of that game and send it to the team.  I hope a few of them know and see the reasons for the bad blood.  Zimmer is in denial.

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@AGRforever said:
F that i want revenge. 

 LOL I want it, too! And as fans, hopefully we'll get that.

 I just like reading that the players and coaches are clear headed and focused on doing their jobs on Sunday. Our team is already motivated while not fanning flames with trash talk about what happened during the '09 season. They have plenty of fuel and aren't going to lose because they weren't thinking of years' past.

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@96POPS said:

X@AGRforever said:
F that i want revenge. 

ME TOO!!!! LOL

Me 3!!

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Show them this and see how they feel

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Cant watch it Scoog. I've never watched 30 seconds of 09 or 99 NFC CG's...Unfortunately, I saw 99 live and in living technicolor, was sitting behind the goal post when Anderson...

I can show you the scars too.