The Vikings just got screwed...

[The Undertaker]

and we got screwed royally. I am so pissed right now....I can't even speak... :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr:

[Itascapark]

1. Shit...

Details please

[The Undertaker]

4. apparently..

AZ got a touchdown at the last seconds of the game....and he had only one foot in bounds....and they ruled he was forced out...utter bullshit.

[Whitacre D_WI]

11. I've seen that replay about 5 times now....

He was forced out.


And I'll admit when a bad call favors my team -- OSU beating Miami last year? There was no interference. Bad call (but I didn't complain about it).

But he WAS forced out.

[DS1]

well he was

he practically landed on the shoulders of the other guys, who were trying to push him out before he even landed

[DS1]

16. well he was

he practically landed on the shoulders of the other guys, who were trying to push him out before he even landed

[fishnfla]

2. Repeat after me

choke!!!!

[The Undertaker]

5. don't even start with me...

I'm not in the mood.

[LiberalFighter]

33. No Packer Backer -- Vikings didn't choke

Choke is a term for those situations that should be automatic. Like kicking an extra point or field goal that is practically impossible to miss.

[ScreamingMeemie]

43. Or not fumbling an easy return...Acccckkkkk. I hear choking.

;)

[Muddleoftheroad]

47. Or like beating the Cardinals

They did choke.

[stevebreeze]

3. they could not beat one of the worst teams in the game.

This was a must MUST win for the often choking Vikes. Sorry but I fell zero sympathy. A must admit however that I am a life long Packer fan.

[ewagner]

6. If you're a Packer fan

NOW do you believe in Miracles?

[The Undertaker]

Miracles?????

They beat a team who lost 10 of their starters!!!! It wasn't a miracle...

[ewagner]

17. Miracle in the sense

that there was no efing way the Cardinals could have or should have beaten the Vikes.......

[MariaS]

25. Why Not?

They Beat the Packers.

[LiberalFighter]

34. Miracle would had been a come from behind by 14 or more points

And remaining time would suggest that it was impossible.

Sort of like if the Cardinals had scored 2 touchdowns within 8 seconds like the Packers did against Denver.

BTW: I'm a diehard Packer fan.

If the Packers play up to potential they should be able to win the Super Bowl.

[Bertha Venation]

52. "They beat a team who lost 10 of their starters!" -- and they lost to:

four teams w/ 4-12 records.

I agree. It wasn't a miracle that the Cardinals beat them. It was par for the Vikings' course.

PS I'm neither a Packers' nor a Vikings' fan. I'm a Chargers' fan.

[stevebreeze]

10. today sure was convicing in that respect

:kick:

[kanrok]

35. Huh? The BEARS beat Denver..IN DENVER

Let's not get our panties in a bunch, Packer fans. They're going nowhere in the playoffs.

[Scurrilous]

7. Well...

The Undertaker (143 posts) Sun Dec-28-03 04:56 PM
Response to Reply #1

3. It's never too early...
to call the vikings losers.




...you were right about them being losers. Very prescient of you!

[trotsky]

8. It's Tice's fault.

If he takes the chipshot FG on the first drive of the game, we win. It's that simple. When you're on the road, take the points.

That being said, I highly doubt the receiver would have gotten his 2nd foot in bounds, even if he hadn't been bumped. Bad call by the refs.

On the bright side, the way this team has screwed games up, they probably would have been spanked something fierce in the playoffs.

[demothinker]

9. I'm pissed too...

but I'm a Cards fan. Those idiots are SO stupid; if they had lost the game, they would have had the #1 pick in the draft! But NOOOO, they had to score 2 TD's in the last 2 minutes and win the d@$% game!

No wonder they haven't won anything in decades...

[stevebreeze]

12. The Pack won the last game of the season

maybe 12 or 15 years ago. Tehy lost the first pick in the draft. They havn't done too bad since.

[demothinker]

13. What i have to remember...

is that these are the Cardinals. First pick, second pick, 15th pick, it doesn't matter-they manage to screw it up, year after year.

Sigh...maybe I should become a Texans fan or something...

[LiberalFighter]

36. A difference of last pick and next to last pick??

Not worth being concerned about.

There are other variables to be concerned about. Such as free agency. Retirements.

The fans at the game were wanting their team to win.

[Archae]

14. Vikings did get screwed...

They did it to themselves! :party:

[alarimer]

15. me too

I did not even see the game. I was watching the Packers. The score was 31-3 and CBS would not even cut away to Arizona to show the last few minutes. Jerks.

I will NEVER EVER root for Minnesota again. Stupid loser assholes. Goddamn POS losers!

[HuckleB]

22. CBS couldn't cut to that game, it was a Fox game.

[AngryAmish]

39. I was wondering that

[alarimer]

42. okay

I did not know that.

[The Undertaker]

24. No matter how much the Vikings screw themselves over...

I'd never, EVER, in an infinite number of years, root for the Peckers!

[GURUving]

26. I had a friend

he is a rabid Packers fan, and I have always been a rabid Cowboys fan. Somehow, we managed to stay friends through the years until I could no longer take his mindrotted republican ways.

I can appreciate what Favre and the Packers have accomplished, though. Favre had to fight through a broken thumb for much of the season. As soon as he was basically recovered, the Pack has been on fire.

The Panthers are a bunch of pussycats. Any Carolina fans around? Did I get your attention?

[The Undertaker]

18. Here's what the Vikings need to do...

get rid of Mike Tice. Dump him like yesterday's trash. Poor play calling all year. He choked away the season after a 6-0 start....only the second team in NFL history to do that...behind Washington. We go 6-0....ten games left in the season, and all we needed to do was win four more games. We couldn't even do that. Get rid of Tice...I'm starting the campaign right now!

[HamstersFromHell]

21. What the Vikes needs to do....

...is find a defense. It's not like they can't score points, they just can't keep anyone else from scoring.

It cost the Vikes the playoffs this year, it'll cost KC a shot of making the Super Bowl next.

And to further annoy folks....GO TITANS!

[HuckleB]

19. Nope.

They lost fair and square.

[GURUving]

20. Green Bay

has a guardian angel watching over them. I've never been a fan, but these last two games have been phenomenal.

a sidenote: The Cowboy's receivers were interfered with ALL DAY, but I think it was only called once. They were screwed also.

[HuckleB]

23. I saw the non-calls against the Cowboys, too.

It was bizarre.

[Andy_Stephenson]

27. WoooooHoooo the Seahawks!!!!!!

Wildcard....Dances around the room wildly...



Note...I feel your pain man...but not too much.

[GURUving]

28. YES yes yes yes yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

about damn time, but don't they have to play GB next?

[The Undertaker]

29. Now...

I will root for the Titans, Eagles, and Seahawks...but only that they squash the green bay peckers.

[Archae]

30. Ppbblltt!

:P

[HuckleB]

49. The problem with Vikings fans is illustrated with this post.

They're not NFC North (formerly NFC Central) fans, when it comes to playoff time.

Yeah, I'm generalizing, but it's actually been my experience.

[fishnfla]

31. Bring your best dance

because our defense is hitting folks hard. ask McCaffery.

[Breezy du Nord]

32. Bad coaching

:grr:

[lotteandollie]

37. Suffering is what being a Viking fan is all about.

Bosox, Bills and Cubbie fans have nothing over us. I'm married to a Packer fan, I cheer for the Pack when the Vikes stumble...this one hurt...again. :-(

[Nazgul35]

38. Who cares!!!!

Thanks to the Detroit Lions, the road to the super bowl leads through Philly!!!!!

Wooo Hoooo....E - A - G - L - E - S......EAGLES EAGLES!!!!!!


hehehehehehe...

[AngryAmish]

40. I love watching home playoff games at Philly

What with the batteries, snowballs, whiskey bottles, etc. raining down from the stands. The smell of pepper spray - ya gotta love it.

Philly not only has a jail in the stadium, it has a courthouse.

[GURUving]

41. That is freaky

I watched, in person, years ago, a playoff game in San Francisco with Philadelphia (they lost), and the fans at CandleStick park were great. I got out of there in one piece even though I was rooting for the Eagles at the time.

Civil fans at the time.

[ScreamingMeemie]

44. WOOOHOOOOO. GO PACKERS!!!!

I think they are going all the way for Irv!!!!!

[ErasureAcer]

45. I stopped being a Vikings fan after the 98 season

Thank goodness.

A lot of their players are just morons...their coaches have been morons.

The few good souls they had, Robert Griffith, Randall McDaniel, they got rid of.

Cris Carter is an ass.
Randy Moss is an ass.
Daunte Culpepper is the most overrated piece of shit ever.
Mike Tice sucks...and shouldn't have even been coach since he has the most blame to be handed with Korey Stringer's death.

Yes...I watch Vikings' games each week to watch them fuck up...and it is fun.

The Vikings didn't get screwed today...they screwed themselves...with stupid play calls, stupid execution of those plays...but what more do you expect they're stupid!

I've lived very happily not cheering for this team for the past 5 seasons.

If this team ever wants to be good they need to get rid of a lot of these bad seeds...Tice, Culpepper and Moss for starters...3 of the stupidest people in all of football.

Until then...this Minnesotan will continue to cheer for whichever team Rich Gannon is playing for...too bad he got injured this year.

I'm not a Packers fan either...I think Favre is one of the most overrated QB's in the league as well. Holmgren will show him next week who the brains of that 90's title really was...the coach himself..good ole' Mike.

Anyhow...expect the Titans or the Patriots to win the Super Bowl over the Eagles.

Damn I hate those Patriots too.

[Darth_Ole]

46. This Minnesotan still pulls for them.

But I was mighty pissed today. The reason they got the last play was because of the CB Walker playing in a daze.. But the reason we lost the game was Tice. He's a great motivator and tactically he's an OK coach, but I'm kinda tired of him not getting the easy field goal. If he had kicked the chip shot field goal on the first drive, the score would be 20-12 before the hail mary. Kick the FG, we win the game.. It's that simple.

And I couldn't believe they didn't the the onside kick!

Yeah, the Vikings troubles are worse than the Bosox, Bills, Cubs or whoever. There was today's game, the 41-0 loss to the Giants, the missed Gary Anderson FG in '98 (Oh, I want that kick back), the Steve Young scramble in '89(?), the '87 NFC Championship Game when we had the 1st and goal at the 5 and we couldn't score a TD against the Redskins to tie it up at the end, the Roger Staubach to Drew Pearson Hail Mary back in the 70's... And I'm sure there are countless other heart-breaking endings. We've also lost 4 Super Bowls.

BTW, Tice shouldn't be fired. This is their first winning season in like 3 years. He damn near got us to the playoffs. The thing I don't like about him is his unwillingness to get the easy 3 points. He does some bonehead things sometimes, but there's no reason for people to be calling for his firing.

Despite all that, and how mad I am at today's collapse, I'm not taking this too seriosly. I hate how they blew a 6-0 starting record, but these are professionals making MILLIONS of dollars a year to run around with a ball. As George Carlin once said, "If they win, fine.. If they lose, fuck 'em! Let 'em practice some more!" Besides, if you can't beat the Cardinals when the season is on the line, then shame on you. You don't deserve to be among the real playoff-caliber teams. We even lost to the Bears, Chargers, Raiders, and Giants. (But beat two playoff teams, Chiefs and Seahawks, really really bad. So go figure!)

Packers are overrated, Seahawks are overrated, and I think Carolina is, too. The NFC has a weak crop of teams this year. Expect New England and Philly to play for all the marbles. (And that will be a hell of a game, lemme tell ya!)

Back to today's game, the Vikings screwed themselves. They would never kick the FG, they couldn't recover an onside kick, and they gave up a Hail Mary. The force-out call was a bad one because the guy's foot wouldn't have landed in bounds anyway, but that's OK. The refs may have blown the call, but it's not their fault the Vikes lost. What really sucks, however, is the fact that force-outs can't be reviewed.

Sorry, but I wanted to get a bunch of shit off my chest.

That all said, I, along with the rest of the Minnicks, will root this Wednesday for the REAL team from Minnesota in the Sun Bowl. Go Gophers!

[101 Proof]

48. I agree with ya man...

the Vikings did get screwed, especially after that last play. It'll go down, in my opinion, as one of the greatest controversies (sp???) in MN Vikings history.

I think they need to fire Tice. He hasn't been good at play calling since he's been coach. Remember the Chicago game a couple of weeks ago? That was the worst play calling I've ever seen. I've seen second graders call better plays.

Hopefully Red McCombs will fire Tice tomorrow. I have no idea who would replace him, though.

This truly was another MN Vikings letdown. :cry:

[KTM]

50. Sorry for you...

Overjoyed for Brett !

Go Pack Go !!!

[PVnRT]

51. SCOREBOARD

By the way, he was pushed out - his other foot would have come down in bounds, had the defender's leg not been in the way as he was shoving him out of bounds.