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Originally posted by lastmanstanding:
I was amazed at how much emotional investment people evidently expended on this game. Everywhere I went today it was the only subject of conversation. I was talking to two gals at one of our customers business. They actually started crying talking about it.

Fact is the Vikings beat a mediocre Saints team and they needed some favorable calls from the refs and a last second miracle to pull it off.

Buzzkill!

Quit harshing my mellow, man!

Hey Jeff Fisher...about those bad quarterbacks of yours...

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Originally posted by bcereuss:

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Originally posted by lastmanstanding:
I was amazed at how much emotional investment people evidently expended on this game. Everywhere I went today it was the only subject of conversation. I was talking to two gals at one of our customers business. They actually started crying talking about it.

Fact is the Vikings beat a mediocre Saints team and they needed some favorable calls from the refs and a last second miracle to pull it off.

Buzzkill!

Quit harshing my mellow, man!

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Originally posted by bcereuss:
Buzzkill!

Quit harshing my mellow, man!

No doubt, if you are a life long Vikings fan you should relish this moment. They do not come often or easy for us. What ever happens this year I can live with, especially after seeing that game. Sean Payton is a smug ass hat. Instead of mocking Vikings fans with 25 seconds left he should have been game planning. Seeing the smile wiped of his face was priceless.

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NFL Research‏Verified account @NFLResearch

Prior to Stefon Diggs' TD in the Divisional Round, 5 teams in the last 10 seasons had won a playoff game on a walk-off TD to advance to another postseason game that season

All 5 of those teams lost their next game, by an average of 23 points

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Originally posted by Ackks:

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NFL Research‏Verified account @NFLResearch

Prior to Stefon Diggs' TD in the Divisional Round, 5 teams in the last 10 seasons had won a playoff game on a walk-off TD to advance to another postseason game that season

All 5 of those teams lost their next game, by an average of 23 points

Well, big deal!

If you’re not from Minnesota, you could have a difficult time understanding what this means to a large populace in this state. This is just NOT SUPPOSED to happen. The script was not followed. The Vikings were to fail on the pass and lose in ignominy. The fact that they didn’t lifted a tremendous weight off our collective backs.

To me, in hindsight, this *was* our Super Bowl win. While I hope the Vikings win out, just the fact that one *finally* went our way makes the next game(s) result(s) *almost* ( ) irrelevant. The Vikings slipped one past the football gods, and Vikings fans who were ready to trudge home yet again in despair, mumbling, instead could celebrate.

So, NFC Championship or not, Super Bowl or not... this win exorcises (sort of) some football demons, and I will be content.

Personally, and this is just me, the reason I would like to see the Vikings win this weekend is so they have the opportunity to be the first (and only) team so far to play on their home field in the Super Bowl.

Cool story, well played fans in Minnesota!

http://www.startribune.com/vik...minnesota/469736613/


Vikings fans, still jubilant after the team’s stunning win over New Orleans Sunday, are showing that they are a benevolent bunch, too.


Their compassion was aroused when injured punter Thomas Morstead was the first Saints player to come back on the field for the mandatory point-after-touchdown kick following Stefon Diggs’ last-second, game-winning race to the end zone.


A Vikings fan noticed Morstead’s act of sportsmanship and suggested on the social website Reddit that the purple faithful respond by donating to the punter’s charity, What You Give Will Grow, an organization that focuses on pediatric cancer.


Donate they did.


By Wednesday evening, more than 2,500 people had given more than $108,000. One donor gave $10,000, but most gave smaller amounts, including $6, the punter’s uniform number, said Lindsey Mitchell, corporate communications manager for the New Orleans Saints.


Morstead said he’d give the money to Children’s Minnesota — and that he’d fly to Minneapolis to deliver the check personally if donations reached $100,000 by the end of the week.


He was true to his word, saying he planned to book his flight Wednesday night. “I am totally blown away. I will be there the week of the Super Bowl,” he said in a video posted on his Twitter account. “I’m just totally humbled by this. I might be forced to root for you guys all the way through the Super Bowl now.”

Fuck this guy, LOL

https://syndication.bleacherre...bly-deserve.amp.html

Jaguars vs. Vikings sounds like an early-October London game with a 9:30 a.m. ET kickoff (6:30 a.m. on the West Coast!) that you didn't even know was on the schedule until noon, when you realize you forgot to add Kyle Rudolph to your fantasy lineup.

Blake Bortles vs. Case Keenum sounds like a Thursday Night Football quarterback showdown scheduled against baseball's ALCS, a snoozer that ends in a 22-13 final score thanks to seven field goals. Who won? Who cares!

When you walk into a bar with the satellite package and 100 televisions on Sunday afternoon, Jaguars-Vikings should be the game that's on in the back corner of the dining area, watched only by a dude in a faded Maurice Jones-Drew jersey whose girlfriend never looks up from her smartphone.

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Originally posted by Ronin1069:
..."When you walk into a bar with the satellite package and 100 televisions on Sunday afternoon, Jaguars-Vikings should be the game that's on in the back corner of the dining area, watched only by a dude in a faded Maurice Jones-Drew jersey whose girlfriend never looks up from her smartphone."

Okay, THAT, is good writing. I literally envisioned that as I read it. Spot-on.

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Originally posted by Ronin1069:
Fuck this guy, LOL

https://syndication.bleacherre...bly-deserve.amp.html

Jaguars vs. Vikings sounds like an early-October London game with a 9:30 a.m. ET kickoff (6:30 a.m. on the West Coast!) that you didn't even know was on the schedule until noon, when you realize you forgot to add Kyle Rudolph to your fantasy lineup.

Blake Bortles vs. Case Keenum sounds like a Thursday Night Football quarterback showdown scheduled against baseball's ALCS, a snoozer that ends in a 22-13 final score thanks to seven field goals. Who won? Who cares!

When you walk into a bar with the satellite package and 100 televisions on Sunday afternoon, Jaguars-Vikings should be the game that's on in the back corner of the dining area, watched only by a dude in a faded Maurice Jones-Drew jersey whose girlfriend never looks up from her smartphone.

Just read the whole article, and it is a pretty entertaining piece of prose.