Post by Purple Pain on Jan 5, 2019 15:10:43 GMT -6
What are your guys' thoughts on whenesota's most recent blog entry?
WHEN-ESOTA?'s New Year's Top 10
#6-#10 as well as honorable mentions at the link:
www.whenesota.com/home/when-esota-blog/when-esotasnewyearstop10
WHEN-ESOTA?'s New Year's Top 10
#5. 2018 NFC championship
For as much as I was drinking the Kool Aid in 2009, I was NOT in 2018. I felt like doom was coming. We blew a huge lead against New Orleans and it almost seemed like we were letting them back in on purpose. The defense seemed to go into a prevent and Drew Brees picked us apart. When the miracle happened, my emotions were shot and I got physically ill, not kidding. I credit those of you who read that as a positive sign. I wish I could think that way. But I knew it was a bad omen…the dark cloud was coming and that was our warning. All week long, people trash talked Nick Foles and how bad his arm was, ugh…I get sick to my stomach thinking about it. I really wish local media would stop speaking of ANYTHING as a certainty when it comes to Vikings. When will we learn?
#4. 2009 NFC championship at NO
This was one of my favorite Vikings seasons ever. Mrs. WHEN-ESOTA? reminds me that I had a bit of a man crush on Brett Favre. I actually had a dream that he and I were besties and I would pick him up at the airport, but I wasn’t supposed to tell anyone because you know…fame. Anyway…this was the year. I was drinking the purple Kool-Aid. After the game… I felt CRUSHED. I felt like I had just gotten dumped by the girl of my dreams. I still haven’t been able to go back and re-watch it. It hurts too much. A lot of people want to blame Favre for losing this game. Biases and man crushes aside, we wouldn’t have been there without him that year. Remember the Greg Lewis last second TD, and how exciting that was? I feel like fumbles were more problematic that season. As a matter of fact, I think that game in NO was decided weeks earlier when we lost a week 16 game in overtime at Chicago on an Adrian Peterson Fumble in OT. Losing that game cost us home field advantage. Had the New Orleans game been in Minnesota, things may have been different.
#3. Gary Anderson’s missed FG
A lot of my friends make fun of me for being superstitious. Gary Anderson hadn’t missed a field goal all year. He was perfect. This is the first time I will admit this publicly: The week prior to the game I was joking around with friends and I said “What if he missed one is this game?” It was 20 years ago. I’m not sure why I said it. I was probably being a smart a$$, trying to be funny. Even then I was a Vikings fatalist, but when he missed that kick, my phone started ringing off the hook. (it was an actual rotary telephone). I know its ridiculous, but somehow I feel that one was my fault.
#2. North Stars leaving
As I stated in the intro, these events and the order we place them in, are largely personal. And this one was extremely personal to me. Norm Green took my North Stars away. To this day I struggle to get excited about the Wild because to me, they just aren’t the North Stars. Bobby Smith, Neil Broten, Dino Ciccarelli, Plett, Mcrae, Churla. I loved going to the Met Center. I miss seeing the green yellow and white seats. Minnesota is commonly called the “State of Hockey” because hockey is more popular here than anywhere else in the country, and Norm Green took my North Stars away.
#1. Herschel Walker trade.
In terms of ramifications, and how a single event affected any Minnesota sports team’s future, I don’t know how anyone can look past this. Its still the largest player trade in the history of the NFL. Vikings General Manager Mike Lynn initially gave up 5 players and 8 draft picks (3 firsts, 3 seconds, 1 third and 1 sixth round). The Vikings got Walker, and 4 picks (2 thirds, 1 fifth and 1 tenth). Eventually Dallas got conditional picks from the Vikings as well.
I remember watching Herschel run out of his shoe in his first game and thinking …This is it!!! Superbowl here we come! I even remember where I was. I was at a bowling alley in Rosemount. (I was really into bowling, don’t ask) Jimmy Johnson claimed he had made “the great train robbery” and 3 Superbowls later he was proven right. Herschel only played here a few seasons. The Vikings only made the playoffs his first year with the team. In my mind there just isn’t any other event in our sports history that has hampered a team like this did the Vikings.
For as much as I was drinking the Kool Aid in 2009, I was NOT in 2018. I felt like doom was coming. We blew a huge lead against New Orleans and it almost seemed like we were letting them back in on purpose. The defense seemed to go into a prevent and Drew Brees picked us apart. When the miracle happened, my emotions were shot and I got physically ill, not kidding. I credit those of you who read that as a positive sign. I wish I could think that way. But I knew it was a bad omen…the dark cloud was coming and that was our warning. All week long, people trash talked Nick Foles and how bad his arm was, ugh…I get sick to my stomach thinking about it. I really wish local media would stop speaking of ANYTHING as a certainty when it comes to Vikings. When will we learn?
#4. 2009 NFC championship at NO
This was one of my favorite Vikings seasons ever. Mrs. WHEN-ESOTA? reminds me that I had a bit of a man crush on Brett Favre. I actually had a dream that he and I were besties and I would pick him up at the airport, but I wasn’t supposed to tell anyone because you know…fame. Anyway…this was the year. I was drinking the purple Kool-Aid. After the game… I felt CRUSHED. I felt like I had just gotten dumped by the girl of my dreams. I still haven’t been able to go back and re-watch it. It hurts too much. A lot of people want to blame Favre for losing this game. Biases and man crushes aside, we wouldn’t have been there without him that year. Remember the Greg Lewis last second TD, and how exciting that was? I feel like fumbles were more problematic that season. As a matter of fact, I think that game in NO was decided weeks earlier when we lost a week 16 game in overtime at Chicago on an Adrian Peterson Fumble in OT. Losing that game cost us home field advantage. Had the New Orleans game been in Minnesota, things may have been different.
#3. Gary Anderson’s missed FG
A lot of my friends make fun of me for being superstitious. Gary Anderson hadn’t missed a field goal all year. He was perfect. This is the first time I will admit this publicly: The week prior to the game I was joking around with friends and I said “What if he missed one is this game?” It was 20 years ago. I’m not sure why I said it. I was probably being a smart a$$, trying to be funny. Even then I was a Vikings fatalist, but when he missed that kick, my phone started ringing off the hook. (it was an actual rotary telephone). I know its ridiculous, but somehow I feel that one was my fault.
#2. North Stars leaving
As I stated in the intro, these events and the order we place them in, are largely personal. And this one was extremely personal to me. Norm Green took my North Stars away. To this day I struggle to get excited about the Wild because to me, they just aren’t the North Stars. Bobby Smith, Neil Broten, Dino Ciccarelli, Plett, Mcrae, Churla. I loved going to the Met Center. I miss seeing the green yellow and white seats. Minnesota is commonly called the “State of Hockey” because hockey is more popular here than anywhere else in the country, and Norm Green took my North Stars away.
#1. Herschel Walker trade.
In terms of ramifications, and how a single event affected any Minnesota sports team’s future, I don’t know how anyone can look past this. Its still the largest player trade in the history of the NFL. Vikings General Manager Mike Lynn initially gave up 5 players and 8 draft picks (3 firsts, 3 seconds, 1 third and 1 sixth round). The Vikings got Walker, and 4 picks (2 thirds, 1 fifth and 1 tenth). Eventually Dallas got conditional picks from the Vikings as well.
I remember watching Herschel run out of his shoe in his first game and thinking …This is it!!! Superbowl here we come! I even remember where I was. I was at a bowling alley in Rosemount. (I was really into bowling, don’t ask) Jimmy Johnson claimed he had made “the great train robbery” and 3 Superbowls later he was proven right. Herschel only played here a few seasons. The Vikings only made the playoffs his first year with the team. In my mind there just isn’t any other event in our sports history that has hampered a team like this did the Vikings.
#6-#10 as well as honorable mentions at the link:
www.whenesota.com/home/when-esota-blog/when-esotasnewyearstop10
Not going to support a system that openly favors certain teams. Small market teams are nothing but 4A farm teams for large market teams. You'll never be able to have a favorite Twin because as soon as they're good enough, the large market teams will throw a bunch of money at them. And that system won't change until small market teams start to go bankrupt, and that won't happen until fans wise up and stop supporting their own abuse lol. Fans need to go on strike to fix the corruption in baseball.
Not going to support a system that openly favors certain teams. Small market teams are nothing but 4A farm teams for large market teams. You'll never be able to have a favorite Twin because as soon as they're good enough, the large market teams will throw a bunch of money at them. And that system won't change until small market teams start to go bankrupt, and that won't happen until fans wise up and stop supporting their own abuse lol. Fans need to go on strike to fix the corruption in baseball.
... and neither is this Chris guy.
