vikings/nfl

God, this article is truth to power. As a native Californian stung by the Minnesota Vikings bug at the age of 6, and having lived at this distance my whole life while experiencing it all since 1970, I can't express fully how much this season has been such a torture. I wish I could commiserate with another Viking fan, but there aren't a ton in Oakland. I have a good friend from Chicago, a Cubs fan, and he's the only one who will ever fully understand this commitment. Please keep the Vikes in Minnesota. PLEASE.

Well, lets not get too comfortable with the beloved Vikings being lousy! R1 LT Kalil (USC - if Barkley comes out, he very well may come out), R2 WR Wright (Baylor), R3 RG Zeitler (Wisc), R4 Cunningham (Mich St), R5 - R7 CB/S. Will have to address god-awful Secondary in Free Agency. Need 2 new CBs and at least a new FS. Probably more than what can be accomplished in one offseason.

Oh my goodness! You are on track for the best, most heart-felt piece this rag of a newspaper has written this year. So what do you do, lend the summary sentence to Sid Hartman - and it leaves one with a long, bitter aftertaste, liken to the ones talked about in 60 Minutes last Sunday...the ones you want to avoid. I love Sid, but the story was told gently, with a wistful eye on better times. Sid reminds me of a story my grandmother told where her sister talked constantly about her siblings, and when she tried to talk, her sister said, "Yah, Yah, Yah, lets go look at the posies" referring to her garden. That's what you handed off your creation to.

Something I have never understood. Why a team that is 2-10 and probably the worst team in football still gets as much coverage as it does locally. Who cares if they win or lose the rest of the year when your 2-10? The two sports talk radio stations in town still cover them like they're going to the Super Bowl! Pretty sad!!

fargo4us that wasn't Sid hatrman being quoted at the the article. It was someone else named Hartmann. I think the biggest problem with some Viking fans is that they don't understand the reasons why the team doesn't win and support them (by buying tickets and jerseys and thinking they are just a few players away from being good) blindly. One person said look at the Packers, so maybe there is hope for the Vikings. The difference between the teams is that the Packers are an extremely well run organization and the Vikings are not. The Packers have an excellent general manager, who specializes in evaluating talent. The Vikings don't even have a general manager. In the 2005 draft the Vikings took Troy Williams at #7 and Erasmus James at #18. The Packers took Aaron Rodgers at #24. The Packers have an excellent head coach and coaching staff. The Vikings have coaches who work cheap and consistently get out-coaches as their opponents make adjustments at halftime. The Packers have depth at every position. The Vikings have guys like Asher Allen starting. The Packers are a great team. The Vikings are a terrible team. These are inconvenient truths that many Viking fans don't accept and until they do accept those facts and make it known that the above problems need to be addressed, nothing will change. I say this as a very loyal Viking fan, but also as a realist who would like to see them win the Super Bowl just once.

I'm old enough to remember the Vikings of old. The Purple People Eaters of the Black and Blue Division. The frozen field at Metropolitan Stadium where sub-zero winds blew snow across the field. Incomplete passes were common as the frozen fingers of receivers could not hold onto the ball. Visiting teams dreaded playing here. The brutal style of play. The steely-eyed glare of Bud Grant on the sidelines. And there was that hearty Scandinavian fan base, oblivious to the cold, drinking smuggled-in liquor in the stands. It all played into the mystique of the Minnesota Vikings.

The Vikings may not have won the Big One, but it seemed that in most years they were at least in the running. Sure, we've had plenty of losing seasons. Plenty of seasons to say, "Wait until next year!", but we never gave up on them.

There's a possibility (however unlikely) that we will lose the Vikings over the current stadium dispute. It would be a crying shame for the state, the fans, the NFL and football in general, if we were to lose this historic franchise, and the long-standing rivalries with the Packers, Bears and Lions. I do hope that our elected leaders and the team can find a stadium solution that the citizens of Minnesota can be happy about.

OMG! Vikings fans are some of the worst fans in professional sports; the biggest bandwagon jumpers in the NFL. There is no stoic Scandinavian heritage or Midwesterner involved. You can't even find a Vikings fan right now. You best hope for a TV blackout the next two home games so you can watch some real football being played. Make 2-14 a reality so you can botch another draft.

It must be nice to be a business and have a bunch of suckers so devoted to you that they will eagerly allow you to squeeze more and more money out of them every year.

Two words... "Alcohol fueled". The Vikings are just another reason for them to drink. The picture says it all. Multiply that ten fold in Wisconsin. It would be interesting to see what the fan base would be if they didn't allow alcohol consumption at the games. I'm not against drinking, I hate sitting next to some drunk bore who screams profanity and spills all over himself and others. I quit contributing to these primadonnas years ago. Zygi can pay for his own stadium.

I was on the 48 yard line at Lambeau for that Monday night debacle. I wore my Chris Carter retro jersey (size 54 so I wore it outside my coat) and a Vikings horn hat with the fur around the horns. Every time I stood up I was surrounded by a sea of geeky green and yellow...you might as well have put a target on my back. I stuck out like a sore thumb, and was never prouder. The moral of this tale? REPRESENT Vikings fans! We're having a pathetic year, but if a 52 year old man can stand the heat, so can you!