Are you exicted?

Are you excited? You should be. Are you sitting at work or at home or on the crapper and thinking "I can't wait for Sunday to fill me with such joy and energy that I want to sit here and do nothing but watch coverage and read FTLOSBW blog." Do you want to paint your face and dress up in Helga horns? I do. Do you want to see BG doing acapella "Don't Stop Believin"? I do. I have to say, i am excited. and, yes, i have my hopes up. WAY up. I'm not buying the "don't get your hopes up" phoilosophy anymore. I do have my hopes up. I admit it. Why shouldn't I?

I like thinking about how great it will be to win. I like thinking about how great it will be to watch Drew Brees stare dejectedly as we celebrate. I like daydreaming about Miami and two weeks of nonstop Viking hype. I like thinking about what it will be like to feel something we've never felt as vikings fans. I don't know if I deserve it more than other people, so I figure I can at least want it more.

People need to stop trying to make life better by making sure they never expect too much out of it.

I know, people will say if you get your hopes up, they crush your dreams. I know because i've seen it for 35 years. I want to ask the "expect the worst so you wont be let down" people how that's worked out for them. Have they felt ok after all the let downs? because i never have. In fact, i've felt really really shitty after each and every one of them. so i figure I'm going to get every ounce of joy out of this rollercoaster before it stops.

I have to have faith that it wont fly off the tracks. If it does, then at least i didn't get killed waiting in line.