BAHOOO!!

Gents,
To kill time while we wait for what will certainly be a great photo journal and account of Jan and DTK's trip to Green Bay, I figured I'd drop in with a few quick thoughts. WOW! All the Favre drama is secondary to me...the Vikes are 7-1 at the bye and have a 2.5 game lead over the Bears and Packers in the division. Our next three games are Detroit (home), Seattle (home) and Chicago (home). I like how that lines up, assuming we get healthy over the bye week.

Secondly, not only did I like the win yesterday, I like HOW we won:

1) Going for it on 4th down in the 2nd quarter - Chilly broke from his conservative "chilly-ball" decisions and actually went for the jugular. It didn't work out, but I like the call.
2) In the 4th quarter, we actually threw a pass on 3rd and long instead of running a draw to Chester Taylor and settling for a FG (which would have put us up 8). Favre to Berrian for a TD. Game over.
3) After a disastrous 3rd quarter I said to myself: these are the games we choke. But lo and behold, we sacked up and stepped on their throats. Again, I think this is where having confidence in your QB is paramount. And the pressure on Rodgers was relentless. He could hardly walk in the 4th quarter.
4) Our return game. I love Percy Harvin. When was the last time we had a threat like him? This sure is better than the old days of Leo Lewis and Darrin Nelson returning kicks.
5) And yes, I have to acknowledge Favre. Yesterday did a lot for me personally in terms of fully embracing him. I'll never truly love Favre the guy, but I am really liking Favre the Viking QB. He was cold-blooded yesterday. The dude got booed loudly for a full quarter and simply shrugged it off by throwing 4TDs and no picks. I love that he didn't let his emotions take over, even though you KNOW he wanted to stick it up their a**es.

The bottom line is that if we don't give away that silly fumble on the squib kickoff, we probably win by 21.

Here is an email from a packer-loving buddy of mine:
"Dude...really upsetting to say the least. We've taken many losses to you guys before, but these 2 sting big time, especially this one. Its becoming clearer and clearer Favre never wanted anything to do with GB -- I guess because in his eyes management gave up on him -- which I'm really not sure I believe is the case. He checked out, never wanted to go to camp, commit to the team, etc. I'm glad he got boo'ed the way he did. It'll take a long time to get over this - hard to say when it'll ever heal. Rodgers will be OK, but we need a lot of help for sure."

Looking forward to the full report from Jan and DTK, but truly enjoying this one. I don't think we've swept the fudge since 1998 (I could be wrong, though).