What's Your Favorite Playoff Win?

With training camp less than three weeks away, there’s a lot of anticipation towards the Minnesota Vikings and their 2017 season. With Super Bowl LII being held in Minnesota, a lot of folks think that the Vikings have all the pieces in place to make a run to be the first team to play that game on their home field.

I don’t know if I’m to that point just yet, but I like the makeup of this team so far. I think the playoffs are a definite possibility, and that got me to thinking what my favorite Vikings playoff games of all time were. So Iasked that question on Twitter earlier, and I got some great responses. From there, I thought this would make a nice post to break up the summer doldrums, and gives us something fun to talk about.

Keep in mind these aren’t necessarily their biggest wins, in terms of historical importance, just my personal favorites. Anyway, peruse through the list and then share your favorites below.

1. Green Bay Packers 2004, 2004 Wild Card Playoffs. Vikings 31, Packers 17. Yeah, this is my favorite of all time, for a couple different reasons. For one, it’s the Packers, the Vikings most hated rival. ANd the two teams were in very different places in 2004. The Packers had won yet another division title, were considered one of the NFC favorites, and they had league darling Brett Favre. The Vikes were an 8-8 Jekyll and Hyde conundrum, though. QB Daunte Culpepper had the best statistical season for a QB in team history, throwing for over 4,700 yards, 39 TD’s, and only 11 interceptions. He had gone from a running QB to a QB, and he was utterly dominant at times. Yet, there were other times when the Vikes couldn’t get out of their own way, and that season felt like as soon as they took one step forward and they turned a corner, the next week they took two steps back and were ‘the same old Vikings’.

Against Green Bay, though, the Vikings came out firing on both cylinders, on both sides of the ball. They opened the scoring with a Moe Williams 68 yard catch and run, the defense harassed Favre all day with four picks and two sacks, and...oh yeah, some guy named Randy Moss. Why do I love Randy Moss?





That’s why I love Randy Moss. This is one of the great NFL rivalries, and for the better part of the last 20-25 years, Green Bay has had the upper hand. Some of the most embarrassing losses this team has endured has come at the hands of Green Bay, and very rarely did the Vikings get to rub Green Bay’s nose in it. This 31-17 victory and the Moss Moon was one of those moments, and until they win it all, this win, and that moment, will not be topped.

Let’s hear your favorite playoff win!