How will you celebrate if the Vikings win it all?
As pathetic as it is, a Vikings Super Bowl victory would be a pinnacle in my life. I'm a pretty simple man. It's something I've waited to check off my bucket list my entire life.
I don't want a wife or kids, so 56 jocks making millions is logically the most important thing in my life right now. If they win, I'm really not gonna know what to do with myself...
I think I'm gonna treat myself to a nice bottle of Johnny Blue (never pay that much for booze), a pack of Camels (quit smoking years ago but fuck it), and try to convince my dickhead friends who don't care about the Vikings whatsoever to go out on the town with me. After that, and this is the most important part: sober February. Not a drop. I usually handle football season pretty heavily drinking-wise, but it always ends for us by January, which is recovery month. Not the case this year, and I'm physically drained. We go hard all day Saturday for college ball, all day Sunday for Vikings/NFL, MNF, and then TNF... I need a break.
What are you gonna do if the clock hits 0:00 and confetti is falling on the purple?
Once the shock wears off, and that might take awhile, I'll probably just have a few more beers and savor it. SKOL!!
With Rip or Nodak. I may streak down the street or just get up and go to work the next day with my head held a little higher.
And will be like PG, watching at home, just me and my kids. No one to bother me, no one but family to see me cry either way. Will likely talk to my fellow longsuffering friends and family if we win.
@"prairieghost" said: If they make it to the SB I will be watching ALONE in my basement, lights out, me and my Samsung TV...I don't want to hear anybody else talking, making snide remarks, celebrating too much or too little, whining....NOTHING...I just want to be left alone in my dark place praying and having an anxiety attack... IF THEY LOSE...I may not recover. I don't think I can go through all that again. It really depends on HOW they lose. I will say if they get to the big game and lose but get blown out I'll just be pissed like never before....but I MAY recover....really emphasize the may part...If they lose like 98, 09, or 15 I will NOT recover this time. I really don't think I can take any more of these fantastic and exotic last second losses when it counts most. IF THEY WIN.............This is my lifelong dream too, and I will cry like a baby for a long damn time. Then when it really sinks in I will scream, jump up and down, run outside and scream some more, drop in the snow bank, kick my legs in the air, and cuss out every single F'n Packers fan I know. I will be on cloud 9 for a long damned time. I won't know what to say or think during free agency or the draft. I won't know what to complain about anymore and that will be strange, as I don't know how to not complain about the Vikings!!! But I'll learn if it happens.
i already told my kids i will cry when we win if not then i will cry also
Breathe - Been holding my breathe since mid-'70's
Cry- tears of joy
Celebrate - puchase everything denoting the Vike Championship
Enjoy football again (now it seems like work, until we hold a lombardi trophy)
I fly out to Vegas the next day....I'll either be partying my ass off or drowning away my sorrows. Honestly though, I've already told my wife we're not going anywhere for the game if it does happen. I can't be around other people while I watch that. It'll be me, my wife, my son, some good beers and a nice bottle of bourbon.
If they win....I don't even know what I'll feel (relief, joy, tears I assume). Other than 98' and '09, I've never even entertained the thought that it was a possibility. This year though is different....it feels so close and such a realistic possibility that you can practically touch it. If they lose, it'll be devastating (and I was in the dome in '98).
Welcome to the roller coaster guys!
Have not thought about it, maybe break down and get my first tattoo (of course Viking related). Then again probably no to the tattoo. Lets just wait and see if they make it first.
@"StickyBun" said:Good point. Absorbing it in the following days, all the stories, the highlights, the breakdowns...@"Purplewhizz" said:Agreed, at least initially. Then, given a day or so, absorbing everything online there'll be to read and watch about the win, the gravity of it would hit me eventually.@"StickyBun" said: I have no idea for sure, but I'm still taking it a game at a time. I've day dreamed about them winning it all, of course, but haven't taken that last step on how I'd celebrate it. I'm guessing I'd be emotional, but I think I might actually be numb. It would be surreal for awhile initially. I have a feeling it might actually be a little anti-climactic. After all these years, we've put it up there so high that I'm not sure it could live up to it. But I'd like to find out!
I have been a Viking fan since 1975. I will be at peace with the universe and no longer believe in curses. I will never again ask how a team with this much talent never ends up on top. I look forward to that peace...
@"purpleloki" said: I have been a Viking fan since 1975. I will be at peace with the universe and no longer believe in curses. I will never again ask how a team with this much talent never ends up on top. I look forward to that peace...
Me too, Loki...1975, age 6...and I look forward to and pray for that peace and serenity..
I won't let myself get that far ahead. One game at a time, and I'll only believe it when I see it. If they win? My wife will probably hate it because I'll probably sh!t my pants.
Relief, peace and spending lots of $$ on merchandise to post in my house.
If it happens it will be very emotional for me. I'll certainly raise a toast to my little brother and purple compadre whom I lost 20 years ago. He was a bigger Viking fan than even me. The spring after his death, I forgot about the draft. I forgot about a lot of things that year: my career, my health, my ability to care about anything. Biggest draft nut in the world and while the Vikings wrote "Dwayne Rudd" on their card, I'm snowboarding without a clue it was draft weekend. Seems incomprehensible now.
So, yeah, that, and I might update my Robert Smith jersey to Stefon Diggs or Dalvin Cook. I might also buy a Vikings pennant and put it over the Packers one in a co-worker's cube. She'll love that. I also have a bit of a man-cave going right now in my basement. Be fun to get a framed picture of Bud Grant holding the Lombardi at USB with confetti raining down. God, let that happen.
@"MaroonBells" said: If it happens it will be very emotional for me. I'll certainly raise a toast to my little brother and purple compadre whom I lost 20 years ago. He was a bigger Viking fan than even me. The spring after his death, I forgot about the draft. I forgot about a lot of things that year: my career, my health, my ability to care about anything. Biggest draft nut in the world and while the Vikings wrote "Dwayne Rudd" on their card, I'm snowboarding without a clue it was draft weekend. Seems incomprehensible now.So, yeah, that, and I might update my Robert Smith jersey to Stefon Diggs or Dalvin Cook. I might also buy a Vikings pennant and put it over the Packers one in a co-worker's cube. She'll love that. I also have a bit of a man-cave going right now in my basement. Be fun to get a framed picture of Bud Grant holding the Lombardi at USB with confetti raining down. God, let that happen.
THAT would be amazing.
I havent bought a jersey since Moss in 98. I will buy a Keenum.
@"purplefaithful" said: I'll change my handle to PurpleIamDone
I've felt the same way for a while now Faithful....not really sure I mean it...but its crossed my mind..
It's the one thing....the only thing, as a sports fan that I care about...I've been a Viking fan since 1970, and at times its consumed my life...
Most people think I'm out of my mind (probably true) that this could mean so much to me...the people here understand...I imagine long time Cub and Red Sox fans understand it...
What will I do? Honestly, I don't know...of course I never think about it...well, not more than about a thousand times a day...I really don't have any idea what I'll do...but, I sure would like to find out..
One thing I do know, I'll cry...I don't care who knows it, who sees it, who judges me for it...I've waited too damn long to care what anyone else thinks...
My wife will be happy for me...and she hopes it'll end my obsession...of course she's also concerned that football becomes meaningless to me...and that means more Sunday's with her...LOL...I figure the Vikings have tortured me, if they win, maybe they'll torture her now... :3
I might celebrate by never watching football again! lol
@"Purplewhizz" said:I don't think it will be anti climactic. I remember the feeling I had when the Twins won the WS in '87. A year and a half ago the Cubs fans I know went ape-shit. No, It will be everything you could possibly imagine. Upon further reflection, the only thing that will take away a bit of the luster for me is the over produced spectacle that it will be. I would just prefer to see the players going wild as they carry Zim off the field.I have a feeling it might actually be a little anti-climactic. After all these years, we've put it up there so high that I'm not sure it could live up to it. But I'd like to find out!
First things first, the Saints!
I will turn my phone off. And cry.
However this season ends.
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