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December 15, 2010

This agression will not stand, man.

OK, Football Gods, stop, please. Stop what you're doing to Vikings fans. We are 3 games from the end of what has been the most horribly bizarre year in sports for any franchise. 2010 was bad. Real bad. Bad even for a team that you've been torturing for 50 years. But 2010 wasn't just a trade that was bad (Herschel) or bad PR (boat ride) or someone going on a rant about how they were going to sue ownership (The Sheriff) or a draft pick turning up in camo "ready for war" only to freak out (Underwood) or taking a knee (highest scoring offense) or not making the catch when you needed to make the catch (Darren Nelson) or rolling over in the first 2 minutes of a game and ruining my trip to Vegas (41-0.) No you were cruel all those years too but 2010 started shitty and just kept getting shittier. In January, there were 12 guys on the field and a "classic" interception (by "classic" I of course mean "knife to the heart") soon thereafter the fucking New Orleans Saints won the goddam Superbowl. You bastards, the Saints!?!?! You could have stopped there and for a moment it looked like you were going to as the off-season was about how we're getting the band back together. But you weren't done, Football Gods, oh no, you were only starting. In August/September we learned how key a young receiver (I'm looking at you fucking Sidney) actually is to an aging QB. In Sept/Oct that very same QB is in trouble for allegedly taking pictures of his penis on his cellphone and sending them to an NFL employee. Read that sentence again. Good one, Football Gods, didn't see that coming. I mean you can't make it up. Adding insult to insult to injury at the very same time a Hall of Famer's wang is making national attention we make a trade for a guy who could be an answer at WR (I don't hold you responsible Zygi, I liked the move and anyone who says different is lying or a douche.) Of course, Football Gods, you can't just let that be "awesome." Nope, the same cancer reappears and apparently a local food vendor bares the brunt of the tantrum. Nice twist, Football Gods, creative. Up until this point Football Gods even you have to admit this was getting silly but what's fucked up is that it hasn't even gotten weird yet. In the span of 4 weeks, the cancer is cut out (Randy, I still hope you go in to the HOF as a Viking) which sets off a domino effect as it is also the last straw for guy who was in year one of a new deal he just inked (Chilly, your boobery will not stand!) All of a sudden it's early December we're riding a winning streak (two!) and in the middle of a 3 game home stand. Pause for a second because it's important to mention that Football Gods have been known to reward for suffering (how else did Cardinals go to the SB let alone how did the Bucs actually win it?) and some may have thought things were starting to balance out. But not this time Football Gods, you go to uncharted waters and have the shittiest venue in sports literally collapse the day before a game. To make matters worse said game is then played in Detroit (clever, Football Gods, clever) where the team lies down like a dog and gets the shit kicked out of it. And finally (who am I kidding, we're not done) we are home for a MNF game against the Bears which we are now playing at the fucking Bank.

Football Gods, it's too much. I'd call a truce but I'm not sure what agressive act I should be stopping as it seems pretty one sided up to this point. In an odd way, I feel like you owe me now. Owe me big for enduring. Like how Andy Dufresne was OWED after 20 years in the lock up, the ass rape and beatings, crawling through five-hundred yards of shit smelling foulness. Sound familiar? I'm owed.

7 Comments:

Blogger RedTigerShark said...

"Careful man, there is a beverage here." Seriously, when I die it would be perfectly acceptable to cremate me and transport my remains in a Folgers can.

What else is there to say? There won't be enough volunteers to get the field clean? The Jaguars win the Super Bowl and are no longer the #1 candidate to move? I don't know but the gods have been creative and can't see what happens next.

December 16, 2010 at 8:08 AM

 
Blogger Jan said...

A few comments on the shoveling currently underway at the Bank:

1. I should do it, right? Maybe swing by Sunday for a shift?

2. It puts people to work just like building a stadium will put people to work. Just a thought.

3. I watched it on the news and it looks silly. They basically called the temp agencies (and homeless shelters), people are out there without gloves on, cigarette in their mouth, no hat. Honestly, wouldn't you get every Metro area high school football team to send their players down? Get some outdoor store to supply them with boots and clothes and shovels and have them work in 12 hour shifts? Then honor them at the game (which they can't attend because of seating issues.) Am I the only one who doesn't have a problem with putting together a young, energetic, free labor force?

December 16, 2010 at 9:40 AM

 
Blogger RedTigerShark said...

They should pull every prisoner out of Stillwater, shackle them and have them shovel. They would love the chance to get outside the walls.

Boss Frazier: That stadium is Boss Zygi's stadium. And I told him that snow in it is your snow. What's your snow doin' in his stadium?
Luke: I don't know, Boss.
Boss Frazier: You better get in there and get it out, boy.

Zygi: Now, I can be a good guy, or I can be one real mean sum-bitch.

Zygi: You run one time, you got yourself a set of chains. You run twice you got yourself two sets. You ain't gonna need no third set, 'cause you gonna get your mind right.

Chilly on Moss: What we've got here is... failure to communicate. Some men you just can't reach. So you get what we had here last week, which is the way he wants it... well, he gets it. I don't like it any more than you men.

December 16, 2010 at 11:19 AM

 
Blogger MCA said...

Add another log to the fire: TJ goes on IR. Can we sign Tarkenton to start the last three games, especially since we'll be outdoors now?

Rock. Bottom. It's basically comedy at this point. To keep with the movie analogy theme, I see this season as "Planes, Trains And Automobiles" starring Brad Childress as Del and Vikings fans as Neal.

I want a fucking winner, right... fucking...NOW.

December 16, 2010 at 11:56 AM

 
Blogger drinkingtommykramer said...

RTS --

the cool hand luke dialogue is a great pull. and great selection.

December 16, 2010 at 5:38 PM

 
Blogger Jan said...

TJac going on the IR is unreal. What a pussy. I was wrong about him. Totally wrong. I was a defender of TJac, I liked how he threw the ball (he looked like that guy who killed all those dogs), I thought he might be a more athletic Daunte (read: less fat.) Holy shit was I wrong. I even said "I would rather lose with TJac than win with Favre" - well, looking back that might not have been such a bad way to go if we could have avoided this catastrophe.

Nice of Chilly to dump Rosenfels too. Joe Webb backed up by Patrick Ramsey - you can now say we now need Alex Smith and Carson Palmer to join the team in the off-season and we will officially given EVERYONE a shot at QB for the Purple.

RTS - I can't hear "What we've got hear is a failure to communicate" and not immediately think of the beginning of "Civil War."

December 16, 2010 at 8:33 PM

 
Blogger BG said...

Wow...this has to go in the FTLOSBW hall of fame. Best post ever? Followed by best comments ever?!

Wow...we're going to honor the 50th anniversary of the Vikings at the U of M stadium, with a rookie starting at QB. MCA is right...pure comedy.

December 17, 2010 at 1:15 PM

 

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