4 Years Ago

@"greediron" said:

@"Skodin" said: I know this sounds crazy, but based on that play, the emotion.  Maybe because I was in a Vikings bar in Manhattan that was shoulder to shoulder.  A bar that was a Saints bar in the back. . . but I have a hard time believing there will EVER be a better moment than that one.

Even winning a super bowl, unless it was on the last play of the game, non kick, might not be as fun as that moment was.

This.

That moment still brings emotion when I watch it.  That moment is etched in our family.  All the years of being on the other end of those plays, 98, Bountygate, Walsh... were released in that moment.

I have mixed feelings on that game for a lot of reasons. This game for me was where I felt Zimmer’s time as a HC was in decline. It was this game to me that showed everyone how to beat his defense. It was this game that illustrated to me that he was too rigid to react to how the game was playing and he preferred to try to dictate how the game wpuld be played. You cannot always do that and a good coach knows how to change tactics to gain back control. Or at least attempt it.

The play. It wasn’t as great of a play as it is made out to be. The truth is that a dback completely failed at what should have been the easiest tackle in his career. True that Case delivered the ball and that Difgs went up and made the grab. But without complete failure by the opponent this play doesn’t happen. I suppose you could say this happens with a lot of plays but to me… The excitement was that the shit that isually happens against us, for once happened for us. In my mind the better more unbelievable play in vikings bistory was Favre to Lewis. 

Now don’t get me wrong, when it happened I went ansolutely nuts. But when I think back on the play and what followed, the game itself in its entirety signifies so much more.

It's totally Vikings to have a lead and lose it, especially under Zimmer so I get that. But the fact that they overcame the deficit and won was huge. It definitely was an indicator of what was to come. And of course totally Vikings to reach the high and come back down afterwards.