On this day in Vikings history, October 23, 2005. The Vikings beat the Green Bay Packers. This is the recap from a Vikings Tailgater perspective:
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I love and I hate, I hate and I love. Last weekend I drove like a trucker from my southern Twin Cities suburban home to Ishpeming, MI for a Packer fans Super Bowl party.
It was the best of times, and it was the worst of times.
I loved seeing my old friend Wales, a buddy of mine from the St. Paul Park days when I was single and far from being TheSportsdaddy of today. We watched over a decade worth of NFL games, including 11 straight Super Bowl’s and over 30 border battles. Needless to say, he is a Packer’s fan. I hated seeing his team win on Super Bowl Sunday. Read more…
Unlike the 2010 season, where the Vikings were swept by the Green Bay Packers, 1998 was a great year. Back then the team a rookie Superfreak and a legendary quarterback and they were the ones doing the sweeping.
On November 22, 1998, the Vikings completed the sweep with a 28-14. Jimmy Hitchcock picked off Brett Favre in the first half and housed a TD. Later, Randall Cunningham threw a TD pass to rookie sensation Randy Moss to ice the game in the Metrodome. Things looked good for the Vikings, prompting this wonderful poem to be written by your’s truly. Don’t laugh, it’s pretty “Cheesy.” Read on…
The lady is hot, her choice of teams is not
The other day, I was deleting “junk e-mail” from my in box, and I saw an email from the National Football League, promoting the launch of NFL swimwear.
To parapharse a popular NFL feature in one of a thousand post game wrap up shows on ESPN,
“C’mon Man!”
Seriously? Okay, bikinis are a nice touch in general, (especially when you are Spring Break in Florida), but when you start putting logos on beach balls, inflatable inner tubes and other stuff, the line gets crossed. The last thing anybody wants to see on Fort Myers Beach during Twins Spring Training is some portly Cheesehead with a Miller Beer gut wearing green & gold jams while trying to chase down a Packer’s beach ball.
Disturbing, to say the least.
Ballcard of the Week
Gettin the Super Freak back in purple remains a goal for some Vikings fans. We'd love to see him finish what he started for a 3rd time in purple.
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In his 2008 story about pre-game festivities for an NFL game. Brian Murphy immersed himself into our tailgate lot, telling us he wanted to write a positive story about Vikings and Packer fans in a long-standing border battle.