Is God a Vikings Fan?

The Minnesota Vikings are in a Wild Card Race, and will be playing the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday. I feel a little odd writing this, since I have not watched ONE Vikings game in its entirety since 2011. I did turn on the Minnesota-Green Bay game on Sunday; I actually stayed up for it, and was pleased to see the Packers lose.

I am sad to admit that I am your typical Minnesota fair-weather fan; I don’t know what I enjoy more, cheering for the Vikings or cheering AGAINST the Packers.

Probably cheering against the Packers.

A former priest at my mom’s church once told the parish that he couldn’t wear the green and gold vestments as prescribed by the Church calendar when the Vikings were scheduled to play the Packers one Sunday. That is my kind of priest.

That missed field goal in the 1998 Vikings-Falcons game is burned into my brain. So my hesitation to jump on the bandwagon is a form of emotional self-preservation. To me, the Vikings are someone you keep giving a one more last chance to, because you want to believe them this time.

Maybe the Vikings really mean it this time.  It would be a great year, considering it’s the last year professional football will be played outside in Minnesota. A small part of me is looking forward to the Seahawks freezing their assess off at The Bank. You think Seattle is a wet cold? Baby, wait until you are in Minnesota in January, it’s gonna be a cold one tomorrow.

Wisconsin’s every futile rebuttal to any Minnesota victory or Wisconsin failure is “Oh, yeah, well at least weeeeeeeee won the Super Bowl.” It would be so satisfying to shut them the hell up once and for all.

Is God Vikings fan? I don’t know, but I hope he is.

Skol!