I was going to write a post about yesterday’s game – but I dropped the keyboard.<\/p>\n
A commenter (Flash, from Centrisity<\/em><\/a>) left me a\u00a0 note in yesterday’s post about the game<\/a> – really about big sports fans – in which I referenced Berg’s Fourth Law, which notes that the more people start to think the Vikings won’t choke, the more likely they will choke.<\/p>\n Generally a team favored to win, and win big, that ends up losing, is a choker…If the club from MN gets spanked, I\u2019d call that a choke, if they lose by anything less then 10 Points, I would be hard pressed to call that a choke.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Which would ordinarily be one of those things you’d decide to settle at Flash’s garage over the summer.<\/p>\n But then, Flash decides to try to deny settled science:<\/p>\n As for Berg\u2019s law, another one bites the dust! The Local Media was on the Bandwagon the instant Favre showed up in Chilly\u2019s SUV, and after 17 games, the remain contenders. Win or Lose, another Faux Berg Law is tossed to the wayside.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Nope.\u00a0 Indeed, yesterday’s result only reinforces Berg’s Fourth.\u00a0 The exuberance did <\/em>seem almost rational; if you leave out the turnovers, the Vikes actually played a better game in terms of offensive stats than the favorite Saints did, which is a little like saying “other than the assassination, Mrs. Lincoln loved the play”. Favre had a good game against a brutal Saints pass rush, shaking off over a dozen hits and leading the team effectively.<\/p>\n But when the blackened redfish chips were down, and the time came to convert that great offensive effort to points to put the Saints away, what happened?\u00a0 Two Peterson fumbles, one inside the five – and, the biggest buzzkill of all, that last pass, where Favre converted what could have been a simple 5-10 yard dash to set up a decent-percentage field goal that would have ended the game into one of the dumber interceptions I’ve seen since high school, sending the game into an overtime that the Saints would not waste.<\/p>\n One needn’t call that a choke – but if you pick some other word, I’m sure the etymology will eventually reveal it to be a synomym.<\/p>\n At any rate, it was a great run for the ‘queens.\u00a0 It was one of those rare seasons when I actually paid attention to the NFL after the Bears dropped out of contention (which, after a smokin’ hot start, happened pretty quickly).<\/p>\n But at the end of the day, I end the “Mitch is interested” phase of the season right where I always do…<\/p>\n