Note: This pitting is in advance of what is sure to be a painful performance by the Vikings tomorrow. So just use whichever adjective more accurately describes what is sure to be another in a long line of absurdities…
That was ridiculous! How the living hell does a team go from being 21 points [behind/ahead] to being 17 points [behind/ahead] and yet still somehow manage to get into fucking overtime!? But then, I knew this was going to an… erm… “eventful” game when I saw the score going into the second quarter. You know I’ve never seen a football team go into the second quarter with 4 points? Of course, I’ve also never seen a team get two safeties in one quarter. Looking at that rather remarkable stat, I would have expected the rest of the game to be just as [bleak/great]. But I’m a Vikings fan, and as such I’ve grown accustomed to such [bizzarre losses/perplexing wins].
Our offense is getting hit with pass interference and facemask penalties while our defense is scoring all our touchdowns! And in the midst of it all, the only part of our team that’s living up to it’s name is special teams, and that’s just because they’re totally fucking retarded. This isn’t a team. This is slapstick. It’s Mel Brooks as head coach with Larry, Curly, and Moe serving as offensive, defensive, and special teams coordinators.
My Superbowl prediction: Whenever the Vikings do win the Superbowl, it’ll be concurrent with breaking some sort of entirely dubious record, such as “first team to win the Superbowl with negative yardage for the season”. The worst thing is, I’m actually beginning to find myself liking the abuse. I barely blink when watching, for fear that in the moment my eyes are closed I might miss the single most stupid event in all of history, just barely beating out the last mistake they made. I am frustrated. I am chagrined. I am completely and totally engrossed. They truly put the “rapt” in “craptacular”.
I have limited knowledge of the Vikings, but aren’t they doing OK? I mean, I’ll trade this year’s Titans to you for the Vikings as long as we can keep Vince Young. You can keep that old guy. Deal?
The Err Apparent is still quite young, and has not had sufficient aging to appreciate the character-enhancing effects of consistent and bitter disappointment. It is ordained to be the lot of Vikings fans and Minnesotans accept their fate with stolid reserve and calm good order. They don’t burn cars, its extravagantly emotional and it smells bad.
But they are not foolish nor wasteful. You want to trade for the Titans, we’re talking a day old hot dish and a six pack of 3.2 beer. (You are obliged to return the casserole dish, and dispose of the cans responsibly.)
In Tennessee, “dispose of the cans responsibly,” means “throw them in a pile in a corner of the back yard,” as opposed to the front yard, which is what low-class sorts do. Is that what it means in Minny?
In my own vain attempt to match W3’s advance pit of his team, let me begin by expressing my disgust and dismay that the Titans could draw over 200 yards in penalties given that it’s a bye week.
Well, something went wrong today and the Vikings totally rolled the Seahawks. That sounds like it should be good news but in Minnesota a win like that feels like a disturbance in the force. Somebody will probably get arrested now, and it will be for something weird.
You mean something totally bizzaro, like going to a boat party, getting drunk and laid? Maybe that sort of thing goes in the corrupt salons of Green Bay, or the liscentious demimonde of Des Moines, but “we don’t put up with that sort of nonsense around here, no sir.”
I understand that the Packers were in sore need of a felon and acquired K. Robinson from the Vikings, but it wasn’t clear what the Vikings got in return. Perhaps a meter-maid-flattener or a public-urinator-to-be-named-later?
I want to say that I don’t blame Stephen Colbert for what happened yesterday, and I hope Michigan State feels bad because we outdid them in their signature category, lead-blowing. Other than that… this year is just a lost cause at NU. They alternate good/ok years with bad anyhow.
The Vikings released K-Rob, apparently noticing what the Packers hadn’t, which was that he was almost certainly going to be suspended for the season anyway.
I bet you all feel very silly about participating in this thread now, eh?
As a Buccaneer fan, frankly I was going to say much nastier things about my team, and then they go and beat the Eagles (again) and really put a hole in our plan to get a top-three draft choice.
My wife is from minnesota and a die-hard vikings fan. She watches the games, gets upset when they lose and I have to sit in the back room because everyone can hear her yell at the TV. In a way its hilarious. One time the neighbors thought we were having a fight (as in blows being exchanged) because of her stomping and yelling. When I explained it to them the next day they were like “Boy, she really is into football, huh?”. Her brother told me once how she cried all night during her high school years because the vikings lost.
I am starting to hate the vikings. When they do badly I don’t get no lovin’.
But if they do win the superbowl…oh boy, I might need some prescription vitamin E.
As a Patriots fan, let me throw my own thanks to the Vikings - not only did they beat the Seahawks, but they knocked out Hasselbeck for at least the near future.
And every Seahawks loss means that the first-round pick coming our way for Branch gets that much higher in the draft.
