Really...Again?

It happened again? Yes, Viking fans took repeated punches to the gut with another winning field goal in overtime, an interception with only seconds remaining, fumble after fumble and a crushing 12 men on the field penalty. I thought the pieces were in place this time. Brett told me that over and over on the radio. I guess they were, but the Vikings kept dropping them. Are the Minnesota Vikings a cursed team? No, just a football team that can't make that one big play to seal the deal. It's been thirty-three long years since a Super Bowl trip. What agony awaited them if they had made the journey? Actually, the most painful part is I feel the Vikings would have beaten the Colts in the Super Bowl. Instead we have five straight painful NFC Championship losses in a row for the group of purple. Others before us have been down this inglorious road. In 1977 former Star Tribune columnist Jim Klobuchar wrote a book after the Vikings lost to the Raiders in the Super Bowl titled "Will the Vikings Ever Win the Super Bowl?" That question can now be answered...unfortunately no. The Vikings are the Red Sox before 2004. That is our fate.