My Only Comment...

...on the Vikings is that now we only have to wait two months for pitchers to report for spring training.

Football - at least, if the Bears are out of the running - tends to bore me stiff.

So see you next season, Vikes. When you take the field, I'll do so with the little tang of regret that accompanies the season you announce - "Baseball is winding down yet again".

But the Vikes' annual ignominious exit from the season - especially this year's plummet from grace - means that spring, rebirth, life, baseball are all right around the corner again - and as the days get longer, the reports from the Grapefruit League will start filtering in with the birds, and life will be good, and warm, and free of John F@#$@#g Madden.