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Echoing the sentiment of a nation

I don’t know how many of you follow the National Football League, but last week was a big deal because the Seattle Seahawks won their division with an overall record of 7-9, becoming the first team in the NFL to qualify for the playoffs with a losing record.

Today became a big deal because almost everyone thought they would lose to the New Orleans Saints (11-5 and last year’s Super Bowl winners) in the first round of the playoffs. However, the Seahawks ignored the whole “11-point underdog” stuff and won the game. Thus, they’re moving on to the next round with a slightly less losing record.

But aside from all that, someone from NBC interviewed the Seahawks’ coach on the field after the game and had the best reflexive response from a reporter I’ve ever heard. She asked him, “How are you feeling right now?”

He replied that he was calm and “I know it sounds weird, but we expected to win this game.”

She immediately blurted out, “Really?”

I couldn’t have said it better myself.

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Skol, Vikings, let’s snow!

Dear Zygi Wilf,

I want the Vikings to stay in Minnesota. I have a lot of fun cheering for them (too loudly, according to my dad). If they move to some other part of the country, you might as well stick a shiv in the fans’ backs, then bastardize the team by not changing the name (see: L.A. Lakers, Dallas Stars).

However, if you require a new stadium to remain here, make it a dome. I don’t care how historic tonight was, the Vikings are a crappy team when playing in cold weather. (I think the TV commentators said the last outdoor game the Vikes won in conditions like these was back in 2005.) We get a lot of cold weather here in Minnesota during November and December and things would only get worse if the team plays less crappy and makes the playoffs.

The funding for the stadium is an issue I don’t want to dwell on right now, I just want you to accept the cold reality (pun intended) of the situation: it doesn’t matter what you want—the Vikings need a domed stadium. Thanks for understanding.

Best wishes,
Shawn

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Back online

Well, that wasn’t as ugly as I thought it would be. The person who’s running this site from her server switched to a new web host and everything was back to normal (or as normal as my blog gets) within an hour. It doesn’t look like anything was deleted during the hacking process, the person just messed with the main page and the administrative dashboard. Awesome.

On another note, I’m sure most of you have heard about the Metrodome collapse, which forced the Vikings/Giants games out of Minneapolis and into Detroit. It gets worse. The Vikes have another home game against Chicago on Monday night and they might be able to use the University of Minnesota’s football stadium, but in doing so, it would force the Bears to find an alternate site to prepare for the game. An alternate site like, oh, I don’t know, the Gophers’ practice football facility.

Remember how I was talking about all of the soccer games being cancelled last Sunday due to all the snow? They were supposed to be pushed ahead a week to Dec. 17th, the day before the Vikings game and likely a good day for the teams to practice. What I may not have mentioned was where our soccer league is playing this season: the Gophers’ practice football facility. Guess who’s gonna have priority and who’s probably gonna get screwed?

Hopefully, we can work something out. Mad Dogs are currently scheduled to play at 1:00 that afternoon, but “last minute changes are a possibility.” *sigh* I hope I can see my team play one more game this year. If not, that’ll be one more reason for me to hope that the Bears lose by a bajillion points. That’s right, I said “a bajillion”. No mercy for those who steal our soccer fields, bitches!