The crying continues...

Good post. The wounds are still fresh over there, so it’s understandable that Vikings fans can’t accept that it was their team that had their chances and didn’t/couldn’t capitalize on them. If the outcome had been reversed and the Saints had lost, they would be over here telling us to stop whining.

I’ve mostly been staying away from the Daily Norsemen this week because I know they’re still hurting and will have a much different view of the game knock-down, drag-out fight than I do. Plus, the last thing they probably want to see over there is a post from a Saints fan.

It’s best just to leave them alone because anything you say will be taken as rubbing their nose in it.

I want to congratulate them on a good game too, but I’ve discussed all the penalties and “dirty hits” ad nauseum over here. I’d rather not do it in a hostile environment who doesn’t have clear heads.

If we had lost, I’d be ticked off about the officiating. I’m a little ticked off now, and we won.

The game is over, we won, and the 2010 Favre Dirge is almost done. He’s a popular guy, and he’s their quarterback. What else are they going to talk about? The rest of the media have to talk about it, because everybody loves the Favre Drama, and it concluded a little earlier than they may have expected. But that talk is almost finished. There’s only one more game to look at, and we’re in it, and Favre’s not. They can cry foul, and hope for a bludgeoning of Brees next time we meet, but the game was played, and they never adjusted to our defensive strategy, which got them plenty of yards, and got Favre plenty of beatings. Calculated risk.

I hope our defense looks totally different against Manning, too. I hope it looks different from series to series, as I don’t believe a defensive package exists that can stop Manning for 60 minutes. I hope he gets hit hard, and early, but they’re going to have to pick their moments to blitz, play a lot of coverage, get pressure with four guys, do a lot of VooDoo motion at the line, and try to make unexpected plays all day, and all of that won’t work most of the time. We can only hope it works some of the time, and take advantage when it does. I think scoring early will be important, too, as the Colts seem to always play their worst in the first quarter, and it would help to get a lead while they’re still trying to ascertain our game plan.

Good luck guys, hopefully your front 7 don’t pound my boy Peyton the way they did Favre or it’ll be a long night for my Colts…

THE REASON YOU LOST WAS BECAUSE OF YOUR INABILITY TO HOLD ON TO THE BALL – GET OVER IT.

it looks like a significant number of the responses to the guy’s post are other Vikings fans disagreeing.

We had a good relationship before the game between DN and CSC, I see no reason not to continue it. We all understand the disappointment of losing, some of us more then others. It doesn’t matter what anyone thinks, play dirty or not, the results aren’t going to change. I don’t personally think anyone was playing dirty, I think they were playing smart, but I understand that some Vikes fans are going to reach for answers to justify in their own minds what went wrong.. What went wrong is we lost, plain and simple..

You Saints fans just need to not worry about what is being said by fans that are still reeling from a hard loss, some people are stuck in the denial stage of grief and haven’t yet moved on to the acceptance part.. Believe me, I am happy that the Saints will be making their first appearance in the big game, I am happy for your fans. You just have to take what is being said with a grain of salt like what many of you are.. I hope to do my public relations part on behalf of the Vikes fans in supporting you guys in the big game. Not all of us will be willing to, but I know that if the Vikes didn’t win, and they didn’t, there was no other team I would have rather seen go to the SB then you guys..

They didn’t exactly take it easy on the Cowboys with hits after the ball left his hand. In fact, if you didn’t watch either game and just saw the ESPN highlights, you’d think that Romo was the victim of more hits after he released the ball.
Anyway, like Jaydebull said, I think the majority feel it was a physical game and they respect that the Saints played a tough game. Don’t badmouth all the Vikings players because of the words of a few. I’ve read enough moronic comments from any team’s fans – including the Saints – to know that a fanbase includes the good with the bad.

I never intended it to be discussed here … I intentionally did not post anything like that here … but, oh well. I truly am happy for you guys, and will still cheer for you in the Superbowl, as I have posted here consistently over the last week and a half, many times.

I hope, if you do read my post, you go over it a couple times, because I realize my intentions could be misinterpreted, and you also read my clarifying comments. Hopefully you will then accept what I said there, that my intent was to address a general aspect of football that ALL teams exploit, and not single out the Saints in particular. It’s just that your defensive coach was apparently were a lot more explicit about making this his primary goal than any other team I’d heard in a long time, so it gave me the opportunity to expound on something that I’ve felt about football increasingly over many years. Maybe it’s the case that ALL teams take that approach in ALL games, but other teams don’t have people who run at the mouth as much as Darren Sharper (someone I have great familiarity with, over his entire career).

Again I apologize for any confusion over my poor choice of wording. Yes, this has been a very emotional time for me the last few days, and maybe I did not chose my words/express my thoughts clearly enough.

CBS actually conducted a study to see which matchup would draw the biggest ratings for the Superbowl. They concluded that the best scenario for them, ratings wise, was Favre vs. Manning. If the NFL was going to help any team in this game, then it would have been the Vikings. I’m not suggesting that anything like that happend, just that the refs were calling an intensely tight game, probably too tight in a few instances, but it was consistant.

I’d also just like to say that for the most part the Vikings fans have shown a great deal of fortitude and behaved honorably throughout the entire course of events. I know full well I would be upset if the table were turned, and I can understand why a lot of Vikings fans feel the way they do. A game of this much importance and is as close as this game was will always produce the highest of highs for one group of fans and the lowest of lows for the other. We’ve been on the other end of this feeling more than a couple of times. Heck, I think my earliest memory as a Saints fan was of Chris Carter catching a last minute TD to give the Vikings a 21-20 win over the Saints in 1994. But I digress. I just wanted to say that we shouldn’t hold anything said in a time of extreme emotion against a franchise in the long run.

…on the feel good and the officiating.

A) Feel Good Story- If there really are Big Brothers/Wizard of Ozs pulling the strings, they would have done that during the 2006 NFC Championship game vs. Chicago Bears when Katrina was still fresh in everyones memory. If you think football is rigged, then why watch it? I don’t watch “pro” wrestling for that very reason. I certainly don’t waste my time trying to convince people who DO enjoy wrestling that its rigged and scripted.

B) The officiating- The officials had no control over Favre throwing that last interception. If he had run for 7 yards, slid and the Vikes had kicked the field goal, said questionable plays would never have happened. Meanwhile, back in Saints land, the Vikes fans would have been defending the very questionable roughing the passer calls the Saints fans would have been complaining about. Meanwhile some Saints conspiracy theorists would have been concluding that the NFL is rigged because they are clearly in love with Favre and wanted to see him exit his career on a high note.

I liked all the great discussions we had before the game
Anything they say after it is just frustration and not worth getting worked up about.
I have talked to some Colts fans thinking we could have a decent discussion like last week
But i have to tell ya’ll they are with out a doubt the most arrogant fans io have ever come across(not including Dallas)
Maybe it’s because we all got along so well with the Vike fans last week and forgot what afc fans are like ( jets,dolphins,pats,bills) so i would give anything to be dealing with Viking fans now instead of Colts fans

while I generally agree wih your post-in fact mostly I specifically agree with your post. I guess the only rebuttal I have is when fans come to OUR blog/website and splay their s***. I don’t have any problem with them moaning, groaning, whining and complaining on their own site – namely DN- that IS understandable.. , I find it very disdainful for them to come here to lessen our joy, attempt to falsify our victory, and try to ruin our party- especially in light of how we have basically been the most maligned and unsuccessful franchise in NFL history. And, specifically, how they have outright said as well as insinuated how they were better and deserved a victory because (in their minds) the refs gave it to us.

So if anyone might sense a push back, a protectiveness, a bullishness, or an attempt to tell those intruders that they are full of crap, they not only would be accurate but I would tell them that anything less by a true Saints fan would be deploreable.

The vikings do look like a sulking group at the Pro Bowl!!!!!!!!

open up the throwing game, which they did. I don’t see that this point has been noted anywhere when people are talking about how our offense sputtered. We took what we could get while protecting our quarterback and the football. The Vikes, as I’m sure PH will attest, would surely have pounded Drew into the ground if allowed. Actually, to me, our o-line performance was stunningly good. They decided to go the other way and, if it had been anybody but that crazy guy from Miss, they would have been totally destroyed in that game. But, that dude just kept jumping up! What a nut! I gotta respect him something fierce, though I sure liked our game plan better and I would not want to be the one getting pounded into the ground. This is kinda, also, what I was saying for a little while. There is old school football and there are a few who realize the game has changed and has changed with it. I guess the plan was that, unless something was broken, Brett would have two weeks to recover?

I understand where you are coming from, PH, but I don’t see how you get by it unless there is a ‘no touch’ rule on the quarterback. It’s a real dilemma for the NFL. Or, maybe it’s just a real dilemma for each team.

  I have never been a huge Favre fan . Untill I saw him in this game. Childress left nobody in to help protect him. Favre took a major bayou azz whip’n all night! Not once did he lose his cool. Never went to the sidline slinging his helmet. never gave his O-line hell. Just picked his ass up and kept going. With all the crazyness of turn overs etc. Just kept on plugging. Thats all anyone can ask of a QB. I say he is a class act and the Vikes got more than their moneys worth from him. They will be damn lucky to get him back next year.