12-27-04 By Mookie Maybe George Bush will return the favor? Afterall, wasn't it Mike Tice who showed up at the the Target Center last October to support GW in his Presidential campaign. I believe it was GW who, after receiving a #1 Vikings Jersey from Coach Tice, proclaimed,"
Minnesota wasn't one of the states that GW carried in his huge victory last November, but Tice showed up to help. Now, a few months later, the Vikings season is on the line, and they are going to Washington, D.C. home of the President, but it is highly doubtful that not even Bush campaign strategists could help the Vikings in any way this weekend. Not even if they wanted to... The issue continues to be the Vikings players themselves. When/if the players on the Vikes ever decide to commit themselves to a cause, and muster up the heart to seek said cause, there is a chance for this team to be great. The whole scene reeks of the 1987. The Vikes backed into the playoffs with an 8-7 record during a "Strike-shortened" season. The Vikings needed to beat the Redskins to get into the playoffs, but lost 27-24. Sound familiar? However, the Vikings backed their way into the playoffs because St. Louis lost their last game of the year to Dallas. Of course that St. Louis team was the Cardinals, but if this year's St. Louis Rams team would lose on Sunday to the Jets, the Vikes could back in to the playoffs and the party could REALLY start! The 1987 team mangled the New Orleans Saints 44-10, then crushed Super Joe Montana's team in San Fran 36-24 before losing to Joe Gibbs Redskins again 17-10 in the NFC Championship. This years Vikings has really been as much as an enigma as Jerry Burns' 1987 team. I still think there is a legitimate run in these'04 guys that could take us to Jacksonville, but also think there is a miserable choking piece of crap team that loses games to pathetic teams like the '03 Arizona Cardinals, Oakland Raiders, and San Diego Chargers. You never know with this grungey lot of Vikings. I guess that's why they "Play the games" and why "We watch!" Designed by Marcus "Mookie" Anderson and Internetcomealive, Inc. |
