When I Was A Kid...

...and living in North Dakota (where Vikings fans are, if anything, more obnoxious than they are in the Metro), yesterday's game would have kept me deliriously happy for most of the week.

And it still does.

I predict the Bears will take it all this year. Naturally, I've predicted it every year since I was about five. Unlike all you Vikes fans, I've been right once...

Speaking of Vikes fans, I thought this bit was interesting; the Strib's coverage of the game took time and space out to ponder some basic team-character issues:

If teams are best judged by their reaction to adversity, the Vikings have some work to do before they can ascend to the NFL's elite.

On the one hand, Richardson provided a necessary emotional pickup. Center Matt Birk stood tall as well, taking the blame for a fumbled exchange between quarterback Brad Johnson and running back Chester Taylor in the fourth quarter.

The play put the Bears in position to score the winning touchdown, a 24-yard pass from Rex Grossman to Rashied Davis with 1 minute, 53 seconds remaining.

On the other hand, several players inexplicably took time from their postgame routine to complain about a full-page photo of Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher in Sunday morning's Star Tribune. Although the accompanying story chronicled the Vikings' progress on defense -- and, most important, had nothing to do with the outcome of the game -- some Vikings took offense that Urlacher was the visual emphasis.

Hey, publicity is money.

Posted by Mitch at September 25, 2006 05:42 AM | TrackBack