Realistically, where do you think this ends for us?

It would be a crapshoot for me to pick one. I think we have the ability to go all the way this year. I like this team better than 09 and its better balanced than 98 too.  

But we could just as easily lose to any of the NFC teams we'll face. Its just a matter of who plays better on a given day. 

Bovada would tell us emphatically its a Vikings vs NE SB in Feb. 

I am honestly not thinking about it. I am just enjoying each game the Vikings win.

My hope every year is to win the Super Bowl. I hope that happens, but I just try not to think about what stops them from getting there.

Vegas likes the Vikings, that tells you something right there. Those boys got it down to a science. What will be, will be.

my head says this is the year,  my heart is screaming for mercy and telling me to go watch basketball.

The scarred, always disappointed fan inside me says it'll end as it always has....horribly somehow. But there's also the little voice that says, 'maybe not this time'. 

I'm enjoying the ride until they tell me to get off. 

I just know Lucy is going to hold that ball...positive...

I've enjoyed this run as much as any I can recall. 

I am constantly tempering my expectations, because this isn't my first rodeo. 

To everyone's point, this defense keeps us in any game. They just squeeze, and squeeze, and squeeze. X takes away half of the field. Linval occupies 2 blockers, and suffocates the run. We have 2 athletic freaks at LB that can cover, and blitz. We have the best safety in the game that is constantly toying with the opposing QBs.

It's hard to not love our chances against anyone with this defense.

Super bowl victory

Here's why...
Defense = For sure
Offense can sustain drives and has the ability to strike quickly when necessary
Play mostly mistake free football
Great Coaching staff, seeing the adjustments being made every game (this has been a big problem for us previously)
AFC competition is down this year

If we play our game and avoid mistakes, we can beat anyone.  Based on the 12-3 (going to be 13-3) record, I'd say odds are in our favor that this continues...

I voted "Win SB".  I'll really only believe that when I actually see it.

Just trying to enjoy this ride one game at a time, and not over think it.  B)

I'm just enjoying the ride, too.

But I don't fear the Patriots this year. I think that we would have a very good shot at beating them. They have that championship aura, but they also have a so-so defense.

Gronk is very scary and Brady is the probably GOAT and playing very well right now, BUT if you can put constant pressure on him (which we can do), I think they're beatable.

My gut tells me that the Steelers would be a tougher game.

My biggest fear is that we make the Super Bowl and face Jacksonville. It would be just like the Vikings to lose to a team that has never been to a Super Bowl (ala Pittsburgh back in the 70's). I remember when that match-up happened. Pittsburgh had been losers for most of their existence. I was thinking, with our experience, we should destroy them. Then they turned into the team of the decade.

@"SouthCarolinaViking" said: My biggest fear is that we make the Super Bowl and face Jacksonville.

For the Vikings, we have Zygi, and his fairly traditional, yet prominent lip caterpillar 'stache...

For the Jaguars, we have Shahid's Wrath of Khan:

I never thought I'd say this, but damn. Based on the power of that 'stache, I think Zygi loses...

@"Clanzomaelan" said:

@"SouthCarolinaViking" said: My biggest fear is that we make the Super Bowl and face Jacksonville.

If we faced Jacksonville, it would be the Battle if Owners' Epic 'Staches!

For the Vikings, we have Zygi, and his fairly traditional, yet prominent lip caterpillar 'stache...

For the Jaguars, we have Shahid's Wrath of Khan:

I never thought I'd say this, but damn. Based on the power of that 'stache, I think Zygi loses...

@"JimmyinSD" said: my head says this is the year,  my heart is screaming for mercy and telling me to go watch basketball.

Head says watch buckets and heart says this is the year?

@"purplefaithful" said:

@"JimmyinSD" said: my head says this is the year,  my heart is screaming for mercy and telling me to go watch basketball.

Wait, wouldn't it be just the opposite?

Head says watch buckets and heart says this is the year?

I will refrain from voting because too many years and disappointments.  I am just gonna enjoy the ride while it lasts and hopefully that will be with a Parade in Minneapolis.

We can beat any team in the NFL, including the Patriots and Steelers. What gives me confidence is that our strength is defense . Defense is spread out over 11 dimensions. It's not a QB or a RB or a WR. That means it's less vulnerable to a bad day. And, as someone pointed out earlier this week, Zimmer is very familiar with AFC offenses. I like our chances. 

Whether we actually DO IT or not is now more about luck than anything. We have to get and stay hot. And we have to stay healthy. I've always said it's not always the best team that wins the Super Bowl, it's the one who gets hot at the right time. 

I feel in this is  the  year  it ends in the parade pushing 50 and being a fan since I was  4  I have witnessed  many collapse  a few  times  this  year  I said  here we  go  a typical viking lose  the first was the  bear game    I thought yep  gonna lose this to such a lesser team  nope here  comes case  and  the Vikings dominate the second half .then the London tame watching it  I told my kids   typical vikings this will be Cleveland only win  in fickle London first half vikings looked like they were  asleep then  the redskins vikings r  rolling up  18 mid 3rd  quarter  look to be  pulling away  then back to back interceptions I said to my friends who are redskins fans  you guys r gonna win typical viking team blowing a  big lead but guess what I was  wrong. Then Atlanta   the Falcons gasp miss a late  4th quarter field goal   the  first  thought   is  vikings will go three and out punt and Atlanta will go on to win but I was  wrong this team went down the field and iced the gamend . So I feel this team is so very different than all before them and it will end  with  hosting the  a trophy in the air  and some one saying I'm going to Disney land  just for kicks  I'm guessing Adam  for map just cause it completes a great story  for this team

@"Viking1987" said: I feel in this is  the  year  it ends in the parade pushing 50 and being a fan since I was  4  I have witnessed  many collapse  a few  times  this  year  I said  here we  go  a typical viking lose  the first was the  bear game    I thought yep  gonna lose this to such a lesser team  nope here  comes case  and  the Vikings dominate the second half .then the London tame watching it  I told my kids   typical vikings this will be Cleveland only win  in fickle London first half vikings looked like they were  asleep then  the redskins vikings r  rolling up  18 mid 3rd  quarter  look to be  pulling away  then back to back interceptions I said to my friends who are redskins fans  you guys r gonna win typical viking team blowing a  big lead but guess what I was  wrong. Then Atlanta   the Falcons gasp miss a late  4th quarter field goal   the  first  thought   is  vikings will go three and out punt and Atlanta will go on to win but I was  wrong this team went down the field and iced the gamend . So I feel this team is so very different than all before them and it will end  with  hosting the  a trophy in the air  and some one saying I'm going to Disney land  just for kicks  I'm guessing Adam  for map just cause it completes a great story  for this team

If you were to tell me 40+ years and I'd still be waiting?

...I'll take my happy ending this year please. Even this much later. 

1/2 our line is wounded or out, we lost our #1 RB, our #1 QB, our #2 QB has been collecting mothballs for nearly 2 years, we have very little post successful post season experience on the team, our OC and DC could be gone in a few weeks.  So yeah, Super Bowl WINNERS is the only obvious choice :)