But it doesn’t matter because very few NFL teams match the best teams of the 70’s these days. They don’t have to be that good. It’s a product of free agency and a talent pool diluted by expansion, if you ask me.

If you mean a team that inspires confidence in it’s fans… that it could and should beat it’s competition on any given Sunday (Mondays, Thursdays, and sometimes on Saturdays)… then I think this team is getting close.

the 70’s were made up of solid defensive play and a balanced run/pass offense.

So regardless of what TSSC thinks of his division rival… yeah… they are looking that good at this point in the season!

GO VIKES!!

You just knew the Vikings were going to win in the 70’s….The days of the Black and Blue Division, Fran, Purple People Eaters, etc….Week in and week out, you felt the guys would do it, no matter the circumstance…Loved the games, hated the SB losses from those years….Ahhhhhhh (note STILL a fan though, and that always!)…

Now is even harder to get to the SB let alone win one (many reasons), but personally I am to the point where yes, they can get there, and yes, I write that knowing they have “issues” to address (I think excellent teams are “works in progress”)….Things could have gone better against the teams so far, we could have kept our A team in and maybe stopped some of the passing yards, and perhaps 7 pts on Sunday….BUT

Based on the Ws (most important statistic), the talent (borne out by the OTHER statistics mentioned), they Vikings are in their way – building strengths from week to week, changing the in progress game plan as required (isn;t it nice they can do this effectively????), and coming back in the second half (wow something that used to be no go), and yes even that last few second victory over Niners (again never would have happened with TJ or Rosencopter)….

They are ready for the big time….I know and feel that we have a very good chance of beating the next three opponents…This team believes in themselves and has the talent and will to carry through. If they DO lose, so not believe it will destroy that belief, just make them MORE determined….

This is a fun year, let’s all kick back and enjoy….such a season is once in a blue moon it seems….If they lose a game, ok…stand up keep marching….BUT they may not just yet….If they do get through these next three weeks undefeated, they can use that breather to recoup and charge out to secure the division initially, then home field advantage…A little early, let’s see…

SKOL!

I think everyone thinks things were better/tougher when they were a kid, and it’s tough for me to believe that any playoff team the Vikings have fielded from the 80’s on would be better than the Purple People Eaters from the late 60’s and 70’s, even the vaunted 5-0 2009 team. True, the PPE never won a Super Bowl, but they are still one of the most talented collection of football players in NFL history.

And the 2009 team is only 5 games in. I think it’s a little early to do the compare and contrast game.

“Best” is a relative term. Kind of depends on what precisely you are asking. If today’s team played the Vikes’ team of ‘75, who would win? Is that what you are asking? To answer that, one would want to know more — indoors our outside, snow or good weather, today’s rules or 1975 rules. Even then, today’s athletes seem faster, stronger, and more powerful.

But if what you are asking is how today’s team compares against its competition in the NFL this year versus how the Vikes of, say, 1975 comnpared to its competition in that year, it really isn’t close. Before free agency, the disparity of talent among teams was much wider. The Vikes, Steelers, Cowboys, 49ers, Rams, Redskins, Chiefs, Raiders, Dolphins always seemed to be good; the Saints, Lions, Packers, Bears, Giants, Eagles, Cardinals, Falcons, Patriots always seemed to be mediocre at best.

The Vikes of the early-to-mid 1970’s dominated because they were so good and there were very few really good teams. That is not the case any more. Teams can change their pedigree over the course of 1-2 years — sometimes even during the course of a season. The talent level is so much more even now. That makes all the other myriad variables more important as a result, which makes it harder for one team to dominate.

Hey, 5-0 is great in any year, in any decade. Enjoy it.

What I enjoyed most about the Vikes of the 70’s — watching the domination of our defensive line.

What I enjoy most about this team — watching AP break open runs that remind everyone of Jim Brown; watching Favre dissect a defense with his arm better than any other QB in Vikes history (Kramer and Moon came close at times); watching Harvin and Rice catch Favre’s bullets with their hands (a la Cris Carter); and Allen pressuring the QB (a la Page and Eller). It’s just fun to watch.

I personally think that the Saints, Colts, Ravens, Giants, Eagles, Jets and Patriots are at least as good as the Vikings who could easily be 4-1 right now.

There’s some wounded animals over there … they are looking at this game as key to their playoff hopes.