Hats Off To You: A Eulogy to the 2010 Vikings’ Season

December 17, 2010   ·   Jonathan Gill   ·   Jump to comments

Metrodome Collapses Under Weight of a Lost Season
by Jon Gill, Vikings Fan in Mourning.

The Blizzard of 2010 was not a snowstorm.  It was a metaphor.  The first flakes began to fall at the end of the 2009 season, in New Orleans of all places.  Just like 1998, our season of high hopes came to a heart-piercing end in overtime in the NFC Championship. 
From 12-men-in-the-huddle to a third season in a row ending with a Favre interception, some of us could see it coming but denied what we saw on the radar.  How many times has a team fallen short at the Conference Championship and come back to win it all the next year? (that's rhetorical—look it up yourself). 
The offseason had two more flakes, in the form of the annual Brett Favre silence, and yet another rejection/pigeonholing of a Vikings' Stadium proposal.  Most of us thought Brett would be back, so we didn't go to the store to stock up for the coming storm.&nbs...

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