Umm…anyone else a Minnesota Vikings fan?
WOOHOO!!! 
Not really (I don’t really follow the NFL much, I’m more of a college football fan), but damn, did you see how close the final Hail Mary was? The guy missed catching it by an inch or two before it hit the ground. That was a good game.
hooray Im for the other team
WOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! VIKINGS ROCK!
And Culpepper, Carter, Moss, and Anderson are all my personal gods.
Onward and upward to the high holy day, Slaughter of the Bears!!
Keyshawn who?
Pretty amazing.
While I hate Denny Green with every fiber of my body, I must admidt he did well with Culpepper.
What really pisses me off, however, is knowing I’ll get wrapped up in the hoopla surrounding them and be thoroughly dissapointed when playoff time comes around.
They do it to me every time.
Ahhh… the well trained Viking Fan…
Kind of a study in conditioned response isn’t it.
But that Daunte kid looks like he is for real.
Amen to that Sledman.
Luckily, the year they went 15-1, I was tending bar Sunday mornings. I never saw much of a game.
By the time the post-season kicked in, I was completely apathetic towards the Vikes. Thank God.
I watched the post-season game at a competing bar with friends. I watched Denny’s ego-driven play calling, which lost the game, turn a happy-go-lucky group of Minnesota fans into a horde of raving maniacs ready to overturn random cars on the street.
They do it to us every time.
Last night Duante showed a little bit of young QB jitters, but man, that last drive of his was simply amazing! 'Course I wanted the Bucs to win since I picked 'em for the office pool but, hey, can’t win 'em all.
Least Keyshawn finally caught some passes.
Cnote I think your judgement has been clouded by those writers for the Twin Cities newspapers. Bob Sansevere has hated Green since day one and has never given him credit for any thing that has panned out. Yes, there have been questional moves but in the long run, it is working.
Not many other teams can say that they have made the playoffs 7 out of the last 8 seasons.
Dennis Green has won just as many Super Bowls as Bud Grant, but since he wasn’t raised here and is not white, a lot of people here don’t give him any slack.
Hey, the Vikings ARE 5-0, and Denny Green is responsible for that.
GO VIKES!!!
Uhh… Buddy Ryan made the playoffs in Philly every year and was fired.
Race issue…see now that is one reason Denny is hated. Cause he brings it up to defend the most mundane things that it doesn’t apply too.
I admit the man is successful but when your team CHOKES in the playoffs year after year the chickens gotta roost somewhere.
I’m a huge Vikings fan, but I’m better than you and so don’t feel the need to gloat about it.
I’m more humble than you are! I’m more humble than you are!
I got to go to the game last night! Sure, the seats were crappy, but what a hell of a game. I thought their offense was going to fall apart in the third quarter, but they pulled through! WOO HOO!
I love football.
Sorry, don’t even start on me with that black crap.
I gave him as much of a chance as I did any other coach that has lead the Vikes. When they suck or have questionable calls, I say my peace and stick with it.
I never said I was an avid Viking fan until Denny came along. In fact, I pretty much implied the opposite. I said I feel bamboozled by the team. They suck me in and I actively get behind them, only to piss me off in post-season play with questionable calls and blown plays.
It doesn’t matter to me who the coach is. They’ve consistantly failed to complete the objective. Les Steckle? Jerry Burns? Hated 'em.
Please don’t give me this ‘You don’t like him because he’s black’ B.S… I wouldn’t like him if he were any color.
Why do I dislike Denny? I feel that his ego gets in the way of a truly superb team. He so bent on being the man in charge he fails to allow others a chance to offer input.
Denny Green has a terrific regular season record. I don’t deny that. However, his post-season record stinks, it’s the worst record of any other team in the league.
The facts are the facts.
But, if your Hell bent on saying I must be racist because I happen to dislike a guy who’s black, well, then, all I can say is get a clue.
Sledman- Damn good point.
No, the Vikes are 5-0 despite Denny.
He got lucky in the draft when he found Moss. Then he tried to show off his drafting skills again by selecting Demetrius Underwear. We know how that panned out. (The draft is Denny’s total responsibility, btw).
He tried to get Marino to come to Minnesota, and when that failed, he went with Culpepper. Then he claims he knew all along that Culpepper was a superstar.
His clock management skills are totally lacking (Take-a-knee Denny, as he’s known around here).
And then Red McCombs gives him a contract extension through 2004.
sigh
Ah, did I touch a nerve?
Denny Green lost me when he released his autobiography, titled “No Time For Cry-Babies”, at the exact time that he was whining and crying that he couldn’t possibly be expected to coach effectively with all of the rumors going around that his job was going to be offered to Lou Holtz, and threatening to sue the ownership of the Vikings because they wouldn’t sell a controlling interest in the team to him. Define hypocrisy?
Although Denny has an impressive record as a coach, look at the teams that he’s had to work with. I’ve yet to see him coach a team that I would say over-achieved (this year has potential to become the first… maybe…), but I’ve seen him coach plenty of under-achievers. To me, that says more about his coaching ability than his win-loss record.
I’ll spare you the pain of a tirade regarding his complete lack of clock management ability, tempting though it is for me.
I’m all crabby now. Time to go home and kick the dog.
Yup…It’s plain and simple…THE VIKINGS ARE THE BEST TEAM IN THE NFL. In my opinion, I think that the Vikings will have a great chance at going to the Super Bowl.
VIKINGS RULE!!!
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