Congratulations to the New Orleans Saints and Their Fans

thanks refs

he didn’t make any HUGE rookie mistakes. Favre throws across his body when he could have ran another 5 yards and they’d be in the SB. Guy is nothing but selfish.

That Favre INT was 5 months in the making. He had an amazing season, but this is what he does. Even after all the penalties and fumbles and refs, we had a chance to win, and Favre made the worst throw of the season.

Represent the NFC well please. Now its time to go shut down for the night. I will have my purple on again in the morning and be proud of their season. Just wish it went on a little longer

Skol

to me this was the superbowl ’cause the two best teams in the nfl just played it out. good luck next year!

Vikings are the better team. You don’t lose that many turnovers and just lose by 3 in overtime. And I know believe the Vikings are destined to never win the superbowl.

Pass interference (where there even was none) on an uncatchable ball should never had happened.

Thomas never crossed the line of scrimmage!

They perhaps deserved to lose a little less. But the Vikes really handed it to them on a platter more than they did anything to take it.

at the LITERAL most crucial play in history of the Vikes. REALLY?

I don’t want to act like how most Packer fans had talked about the last play the Packers had. We’ve had some good plays, some mistakes, and potentially some bad calls.
So be it, that’s how the game plays out. Playing on the road is hard. We had to go up against an offense that was really great…
No doubt, the Saints can be good in big – games. They picked apart the Patriots. But overall, I think they are overrated to a certain extent. Their defense is suspect.
When it’ll come down to the Colts/Saints – I believe that P Manning will come into the game with his experience of being in that position and the Colts defense is great. The Colts just had to go up against a #1 defense.
The Vikings went 12-4, got a 1st round bye, nearly swept all division teams and went undefeated at home. They won their first playoff game.
Favre had a great season. He made great plays, clutch plays, broke records of all sorts, and brought us to the NFC.

With 32 teams… Only 2 make it to the Superbowl.. We proved that our team is Great! We can beat our own selves at times, like we did today.

I look forward to having another winning season next year. I hope we go out with something to prove and play an even better season. Maybe this go around, we’ll get the #1 seed. Playing in our own Metrodome is where we do good things.

I think we’ll do great if Favre returns.. He’ll have a lot of time to decide on this…

The Saints are a great team and organization, and unlike the NFL franchise in Minnesota the Saints deserve to be in the Super Bowl.

…and the Vikings too, on a phenomenal season.

They were def. one of the NFL’s best elite teams—and if Favre stays for one more year and is in the same shape as this year, then I think we’ll be here again.

As for the game—I think some of the turnovers were due to nerves (only way I can explain AP’s drop of the handoff…blegh) and bad luck, but some of them due to the Saints’ defense…while not that great at stopping the run or defending the short passing game, clearly they’re v/ good at stripping the ball.

Don’t blame Favre at all for his picks—he was getting squashed all game. And our last play of the 4Q, we unfort needed a completed pass to get into sure FG range (12 men in the huddle penalty—biggest “WTF?!?!?” of ALL TIME!!)—Rice looked open, and given that Favre been beat up all game and had a gimpy ankle, I doubt that the option of running for sufficient gain was even remotely in his mind.

Anyway, good luck Saints in the Superbowl…and thanks to all of the great frontpage bloggers this year for a great year!!!

It is a shame I had to witness another self-destruction, yet I know I will come back for more. As a soldier who met Brett in MS prior to deployment I am honored to say I support him in his decision. If this doesn’t make him that much hungrier than what possibly can? My blood flows for the state of Minnesota and I truly feel your pain. We are all mourning the loss of not what could have been but what was. It was a fantastic ride and I am left wanting more, isn’t that what makes a great movie? We need a sequel Brett!

When Favre got hurt and was writhing in pain on the ground. That was when the biggest cheers came from the fans. I cannot believe the Saints fans would stoop that low as to cheer for someone who was hurt. NEVER would have happened at the Metrodome. We are way better sportsman than that. Saints fans you should be ashamed of yourselves!!

Congrats on winning the game though.

The tripping in that game was egregious, but crazy turnovers turned into points for the other team too. I thought we moved the ball up and down against the Saints and just kept shooting ourselves in the foot.

Congrats Saints. It was one of the greatest games I’ve seen. Just a rather disappointing outcome for us.

Skol

Being a Vikes fan is so hard sometimes. so…so hard.

His last throw as a Viking an interception, just like with the Packers in the SAME GAME. Oh yeah he’ll be back. That’s a guarantee!

Is it better to be god awful and lose most games, with the random victory being all the sweeter? Or getting so..SO close to victory only to shat it down your leg. Would you rather be denied a date by a hot girl, or dumped at the alter by her? No real winnable answer here.

Saints were #1 for a reason… To be a close game for the Vikings on the road in a dome means a lot. We could of easily folded the game like most of our on-the road prime time games We made the best of it, tried to come back from our own turnovers and kept the game close It went into Overtime. We nearly had a chance to win the game, but we made mistakes.

I for one, thought the game was totally nearly over until the 12-man huddle issue.
Mistakes were made and the Vikings get to deal with that and think about it going into next year. So close – but mistakes are costly.

We may not have made it to the Superbowl as we all definitely had hoped, but we had a great season.
1) We had a Rookie of the Year
2) We had the most players invited to the Pro Bowl
3) Favre had a career high season
4) We had a great winning season that gave us a 1st round bye
5) We won all our HOME games
6) We won our 1st playoff game
7) Favre set several Records this year
8) We saw numerous players shine thanks to Favre
9) We beat the Packers twice
10) We beat the lowly Lions twice
11) We beat the Bears at home, and had a close game in a cold weather game on the road in Solder field
12) We had a CLOSE NFC Championship game – had to go into OT
13) We had 2nd stringers step up (Sanford/Jasper)
14) We improved our special teams (better than years prior)
15) We improved our winning record by 2 games in comparison to previous year.
16) We beat good teams at home (Bengals, Packers, Dallas, Ravens)
17) We had clutch plays (Greg Lewis Pass)

So many things to be proud of… Most teams would love to have our successful season. We didn’t go as far as we wanted, but we put up a good fight.

We know things to work on, or improve on our team
1) Fumbling – it is apparent this game alone that fumbles killed us.
2) O-line – We need better rush blocking & pass protection. Give Favre all-day to pass and he’s unstoppable, create wholes and our run-game is unstoppable.
3) Secondary – we’re always there to tackle, but we always let the receptions happen. Having a great secondary will always be hard, but, we didn’t have very many interceptions this year
4) Special teams still need improvement. It seems it has improved since previous years, but still, we can’t give up so much on kick off returns. We need to put our kickoffs into the endzone…. Don’t even allow a return
5) Play 100% at all times. Our losses this season, don’t seem to be where we were playing our best.. If we had won some of our close away games, we could of easily been #1 seed. If that was how this season turned out this year, maybe we would of won an NFC championship in the Metrodome.

Dump Childress, promote Frasier. Trade AP to get another first round pick and draft Spiller and Cody. Tough loss. Gonna be a hard one to get over.

He has done great things……
His play calling at times has been questionable, but he’s been great in the draft.
To pursue Favre as our QB shows that he knows talent…. – He never gave up on getting him to come back.

He knows now, that he has to choose plays to make it so he can win at all costs.
Let’s hope he uses his good choice of talent to fix up our missing links.

What about the bogus “hit out of bounds” or the roughing the passer? On the Saints’ last drive Brees was taken down exactly the same way, and no flag. Because it wasn’t a penalty in the first place. Favre needs to quit crying, and either suck it up or retire. Or the no-call on the pass interference when the Vikes were all over the tight end Thomas. If anyone got the benefit of the calls from the refs, it was the Vikings! And quit crying about the “low hit”…the “Brady” rules apply to a player already on the ground, not to a player who has been hit on his way to the quarterback and is on his way down. He’s not required to give up.