Thanks to Everyone For an AMAZING Year
I know, you haven't really heard a heck of a lot from me since the game ended on Sunday night. Everyone else got their takes up so quickly that I didn't want to prematurely obscure them with anything I had to add. I'll have my take on the actual game tomorrow sometime, but for now I want to put something out there about the site and the incredible year we had this season.
I posted this picture just before the kickoff of the NFC Championship Game, but didn't want to call too much attention to it at the time, so as not to take away anything from the matter at hand. But I'm going to put it up here again.

Yes, ladies and gentlemen. Just prior to kickoff of the NFC Championship Game, this site reached the 2 million hit mark in overall traffic. Remember way back when I put up the post about reaching the 1 million plateau? All the way back on. . .1 July? Of this year? Just short of the site's three-year anniversary?
Yep. . .it took almost three years to get the first million hits in the history of the site. It took just short of six months to reach the second million. The level of growth that this community has experienced this season has been nothing short of incredible, and is a testament not just to the site itself, but to all of you that make up this community. And this site is going to continue to grow and flourish and get better as the days, weeks, and months come along and we get closer to the 2010 season. We're even looking into getting merchandise for the site up and running here before too much longer (more on that later on this week).
I have to give a huge thanks to the best damn writing staff a guy could hope to surround himself with. Anthony and Eric. . .as well as our latest addition, MilCardFan (not sure if he wants me putting his real name out there). . .have brought a lot of great stuff this season, and have made sure that we've always had new, fresh, and relevant stuff out there for everyone to read. We've all had plenty of times this year when "real life" has taken over, and without all of us working in concert, this site would be awfully empty at times. As the year goes on, we might look to add even more writers to the site as well. . .after all, what's the best thing that you can add to the best Vikings' site on the internet? More Vikings stuff, of course!
I just wanted to make sure that I got this out there before I tossed one final log on the fire that was the Vikings 2009-2010 season. Thanks to each and every one of you that has made this site a part of their weekly Viking routine. Or their daily Viking routine. Or their hourly Viking routine. (Although I might be the only person that falls under that last heading. . .I still think half of our two million hits have come from me personally.) This site has become the kind of spot that Viking fans deserve to have on the internet, a place for discussion amongst the greatest fans in the NFL. We'll keep the entertainment up throughout the off-season, and it will be late July again before we know it.
Thanks again, ladies and gentlemen! Enjoy the rest of your Tuesday.
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Thank you Gonzo
For giving us the opportunity to vent our frustrations/celebrations about our favorite football team! I think I speak for everybody on this blog when I say thank you from the bottom of our collective hearts.
Now we look forward to the off-season..Will Favre come back…Will we trade for McNabb or Quinn? Who will we draft? Will AP cure his Fumbleitis? It’s shaping up to be one hell of an off-season.
I used to have to resort
To ESPN forum blogs as I was simply unaware of anything else.
Then I found the DN, and everything has been exponentially better here. Thank you all.
by Jepp The Viking on Jan 26, 2010 12:54 PM CST reply actions
exponentially
a word that the ESPN trolls don’t know how to use/type/spell.. in fact they aren’t aware of its existence, too complex
Great year.
I had a great time chirpin’ my face off. That was a tough loss, but who is to say if we ran at the end that it wouldn’t have resulted in a loss of yards. I think the lack of INTs by our safeties really hurt this year.
Oh well, if you turn the ball over 5 times you do not deserve to win. Favre will be back and we can hopefully have a deep run again next year. Maybe one more year out of fat Pat?
Great site Gonzo. Lets get the offence some sticky gloves next year and we should be in the Super Bowl. Lol.
Who dat? Nobody will remember or care after this week. Go Vikes!
thank YOU...
been a Packer fan all my life, then followed Brett to the Jets and then MN. what a great year. i hope you long-term Vikes’ fans appreciated what Favre brought to the table. thanks for letting me post here occasionally. Favre or no Favre – i will be back next season. SKOL FAVRE! SKOL VIKINGS! and SKOL DAILY NORSEMAN & ALL VIKINGS’ FANS!!!
You guys are welcome,
glad I could help out!
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Your Blog
I root for another team and our blog is more in real time than yours, but I have noticed that it is getting much better in that area. Especially recently, the posts have been very timely. Keep up the good work.
DN
I love the site, and go here , when I here a breaking news story about the vikes. I also use it to help with the daily grind, it makes slow days at work go faster!!! Thanks
Great year, great site
I just want to say thanks to all you guys who make this site what it is, the best place for Viking fans on the net! Down here in the 505 (New Mexico, that is…it used to be our only area code LOL) there isn’t an overwhelming fan base. But now that I found the DN I felt like I was an important part of the Berseker Nation. It provided me a place to brag about the team I love, argue with trolls, mourn, basically put in my 2 cents about all things Viking related. But most importantly it provided a place to belong among true Viking fans.
"We have a right to be proud, for in our veins flows the blood of many brave races who fought as the lion fights for lordship. Here, in the whirlpool of European races, the Ugric tribe bore down from Iceland the fighting spirit which Thor and Odin gave them, which their Berserkers displayed to such fell intent on the seaboards of Europe, ay, and of Asia and Africa too, till the peoples thought that the werewolves themselves had come."
-from Bram Stoker's Dracula
NFL officials
great season we had, and a great game we played. only wished the refs. had showed up, the outcome would have been different. just goes to show , goodall wanted the other team in the superbowl, and the refs. made it all happen! a new season awaits us!
The officials didn't cause the Vikes to turn the ball over 5 times.
The officiating wasent great but the turnovers and 12 men in the huddle had nothing to do with the refs.
The Vikes did themeselves in. I find it easier to take a loss when your beat by a better team and they earned it. That was not the case here.
Just hate to do it, but a kick in the teeth stat: Percy never lost a fumble his entire college career on in the NFL up until this game, eww.
I will realize in a week or so that this was a great season overall and look at it in a more positive light. It still stings for the time being.
Who dat? Nobody will remember or care after this week. Go Vikes!
amazing stats but...
…i think i should get all the credit.. w/o my contributions, 2 million would only have been a paltry 1,999,965 …not nearly as impressive ;-)
"the following statement is true:
the preceding statement was false" - george carlin
Very good site.
This is by far my 2nd favorite football site on SBNation.
Ohhh Brett...One more year! One more year! One more year!
Superbowl Prediction - Colts 41 Saints 23
by craig in calgary on Jan 26, 2010 2:58 PM CST reply actions
Thanks Gonzo
for all the time you put it. It was quite a year. Too bad it ended the way it did. Everything fell into place nicely, and that does not happen so often. So next year, I believe, will be good but there’s no guarantees either.
We all know that art is not the truth, art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.--Picasso
Thanks Gonzo
I too am one of the hourly visitors especially since November when I was downsized (I think that was the term they used). This site has provided me with a with an outlet for all the time on my hands.
by SouthernNorseman on Jan 26, 2010 3:55 PM CST via mobile reply actions
You're a Great Head Coach!
Gonzo – thanks for taking time out of your personal schedule to keep us updated on the latest Viking’s news and thanks for providing us a place to chat with the millions of other Viking fanatics and hopefuls. We’ll get ’em next year. Congrats on hitting the 2 million mark.. SKOLLLLLLLLLLLL!
"Skol Vikings! Let's win this game Skol Vikings!
Congrats
To the DN for the growth this past season. I spent 2000-07 as a mod at Football.Com and I felt a little lost on online for a bit after they brought in new ownership. Like Jepp, I’ve post around places like BSPN and the maddening Y! comments sections…but when I found the Norseman it was like finding a piece of purple gold.
Great work all season, all you guys, and good luck with the new gig MilCardsFan.
Here’s to a long but interesting offseason ahead of us.
Skol Vikes
Wow! It sure feels great to jump on board at the end
and then take all the credit, lol. Seriously, thanks for the opportunity, Gonzo.
By the way, using my first name is okay. It’s Ted, if anyone is curious.
"We're used to Favre-a-palooza now. We're engulfed in Favre-a-palooza. It's not even Favre-a-palooza anymore. He's family now."
--Vikings TE Visanthe Shiancoe, on Brett Favre
I just didn't want to put it out there
Without getting your permission first, that’s all. (-:
The Daily Norseman - The greatest Vikings' site on the Internet!
by Christopher Gates on Jan 26, 2010 4:50 PM CST up reply actions
That's cool. I appreciate that
"We're used to Favre-a-palooza now. We're engulfed in Favre-a-palooza. It's not even Favre-a-palooza anymore. He's family now."
--Vikings TE Visanthe Shiancoe, on Brett Favre
Thanks Gonzo and everybody else
This site has been a daily routine for me to visit. Along with my Coco Cola and toast.
There's a little beserker in all of us!
Like the Saints in the Super Bowl, I'm just lucky to be here
I’ve been on board as a co-writer for just over a year now and it has been nothing short of amazing. I love being able to share my thoughts about my favorite team with an audience that keeps growing by the day. (Especially if I can make fun of other teams along the way…that’s right Cowboy and Packer fans!)
But like I’ve always said, this site would be downright boring if it was just us “main writers” talking back and forth to each other. What I love most about DN is that it’s such a community effort. There’s no better place in the blogosphere to make your voice heard when it comes to the Vikings.
From cryhavoc’s Photoshop genius to R4F’s all-caps passion to Elgar’s Hunter S. Thompson-like weird rants that somehow makes perfect sense to our large and vocal constituency from New Mexico to medicineball’s numbered reasons to win each week to my family members even chipping in once in a while to everyone else in between (even the trolls), I thank you guys for making this site what it is today. I can’t wait to hit 3 million in a couple weeks! :)
by Eric J. Thompson on Jan 26, 2010 4:55 PM CST reply actions
+ a gajillion
"We're used to Favre-a-palooza now. We're engulfed in Favre-a-palooza. It's not even Favre-a-palooza anymore. He's family now."
--Vikings TE Visanthe Shiancoe, on Brett Favre
Thank you to all the writers.
I found the DN last spring, and it’s been my #1 source for “Anything Vikings” ever since. Not only are you guys informative, but your writing is creative and entertaining as well.
Thanks again, Go Vikes!
Amazing Year, Great Blog
Im still crying. It was Super Bowl or bust and we let an inferior team win. Right now I want to get away from anything Vikings related, still too soon. Skol Vikes.
Skol Vikings!!
Thanks for
keeping me sane at work this year. Without this blog… I would have read something else, but I would rather be here. I just moved to Wyoming, so I will be relying on this blog more than ever to keep me in the loop as a displaced fan. I won’t give up the fight.
I really appreciate all of the thoughts and perspectives
that members of this community have provided. While I am still sad and sick about how this season ended, it really helps to have this site, especially since I live ‘behind enemy lines’ here in Central Illinois. If it helps at all, at least we’re not ’da bears (no draft picks and coaching positions that no one wants!).
Skol! I love my Vikes!
by IlinoisVike on Jan 26, 2010 9:00 PM CST via mobile reply actions
hey if i say that the packers and some of their fans fucking suck and are the scum of the earth do i get in trouble in here?
you vikings fans are so lucky you had the great farve slinging for you(of course i would never trade manning for brett… but still you lucky sob’s) i’ve been around this site for the past few days and i can tell that most of you guys are true fans you took farve into your house by watchin him in tv and in u guy’s heart, it surprises me how much love and respect you guys got for farve because of one season, and packers fans had him for 18 years and they nagged about him and bitched about him and blamed him for a lot of things, they didnt know what they had until they lost him….. oh wait nvm they still don’t know what they had, also im really happy that alot of you arent trying to run farve out of town like those so called “fans” did by insulting him and by the “organization” actually paying him money to stay retired. so im pretty sure that u vikes fans have to be one of the best fans their is OF COURSE AFTER US COLTS FANS ;-)
p.s. i hope to see your vikings burn everyone next season (specially those faggers) and actually get to the superbowl (hopefully with farve) so the colts can beat you when u guys get there haha. arit take it easy vikes fans and good luck
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by 805 on Jan 26, 2010 9:31 PM CST reply actions
Have posted on this but....
To sum it up, this is one FINE site (the FINEST actually) for its contibutor’s and its subject matter….Our beloved Vikings (yes still love them, even with this abusive relationship we have been in over the years)!!!!!!!! SKOL VIKES!!!!!!
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by vikingfanfrom afar on Jan 27, 2010 2:32 AM CST reply actions
hi
new poster here in texas. i just want to say i will be back with a force. I`ll blog my ass off.
And on the off-season all we need is a #2 cornerback, and Safety.
I thought berrian sucked but he needs to pretend every game is a championship.
Berrian was fighting off an injury the 1st half of the season.
With the ball being spread around like it was this season Berrian proved to be solid. I especially like how he didn’t bitch about getting the ball as he could see Rice was on fire.
Hard one(loss) to swallow, thats what she said.
I've been reading your posts all season
and have really enjoyed it. I got slammed after my first post. I’ll admit it was bad timing, but my DN conformation sat in my spam for a few days, so time ran out before the big game.
All I can say is keep the faith. Maybe R4F will be right next season. Reading this blog makes my post game depression a little better.
I’d better go now. Granny sez the vittles is ready to eat.
The best Viking site .
I have enjoyed coming to this site all year long. The fellowship of Viking fans here is unmatched, we have all rejoiced together and experienced yet ANOTHER Viking heartbreak together.
I really enjoyed the live threads during the games, even this last one, as I had hope all the way until that field goal try left the foot of the saints kicker. The in game chat was great and really added to my enjoyment this year- plus the fact is I finally thought this was the year…..sigh….not to be.
Thanks to all of the people that have put together this wonderful place for all Viking fans and even a few trolls to get together and for keeping it happening, and keeping it real. You are very much appreciated !!!!
Well there is always next year and in the end we will be back rooting on our favorite team, can’t wait until September already…………..“cause ya know we’re goin all the way this time”
SKOL VIKINGS AND ALL OF THEIR FANS
I believe all Viking fans must be masochistic!!
To everyone, well exept the trolls of course.

"What is best in life?"
"To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women."
Thank you Gonzo & Team!
I have enjoyed this site all through the season, and inspired by Sunday’s thrilling game decided to take the plunge and join you guys! Thank you for giving us such intelligent thought provoking posts and great camaraderie with other teams. I cannot wait for next season when our vikes will come back stronger and better! Can’t wait to buy some Daily Norseman mercandise as well! Skol Vikings!
TO ALL THE VIKING FANS AND TEAM
TO ALL THE VIKING FANS AND TEAM
YOU’RE THE GREATEST
YOU ALL SHOULD BE PROUD YOU HAD A GREAT SEASON
I LIVE IN THE WASHINGTON D.C. AREA AND A REDSKIN FAN SO WHAT I SAY NOW WILL NOT BE BIASED. AFTER READING A LOT OF THESE SPORTS BLOGS AND SEEING YOUR TEAM PLAY THIS YEAR AND SUBSEQUENT INTERVIEWS OF PLAYERS AFTER THE GAME. YOU FANS AND YOUR PLAYERS ARE THE GREATEST. I THINK YOU ALL SHOWED REAL CLASS THROUGHOUT ALL WITH THE DIFFUCULTY OF BRETT FAVRE COMING TO YOUR TEAM AND WITH ANOTHER HEARTBREAKING LOSE WHEN YOU HAVE BEEN SO CLOSE SO MANY TIMES. HOWEVER YOU ARE REAL CLOSE TO A SUPERBOWL CONTENTION RIGHT NOW IF YOU DO A FEW THINGS. RESIGN CHESTER TAYLOR AND GET MORE PLAYERS LIKE HIM HE IS SO VERSATILE AND SO UNSELFISH BLOCKING RUNNING AND CATCHING YOU CAN NOT HAVE ENOUGH PLAYERS LIKE HIM. DRAFT AS MANY OFFENSIVE LINEMAN AS YOU CAN. NO QUATERBACK WILL LAST A SEASON IF YOUR QUATERBACK TAKES A BEATING LIKE BRETT FAVRE TOOK IN THE NEW ORLEANS GAME. DRAFT AS MANY DEFENSIVE BACKS AS YOU CAN DUE TO ALL THE INJURIES YOU HAVE HAD THERE YOU WILL NEED THEM. OTHER WISE I SEE THE REST OF THE TEAM AS BEING SOLID. LET YOUR DRAFT PICKS PLAY THAT IS THE ONLY WAY THEY WILL LEARN AND YOU PICKED THEM THINKING THEY COULD PLAY IN THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE. EVEN IF BRETT FAVRE DOES COME BACK ALLOW TAVARIS JACKSON TO PLAY HE IS A GOOD ATHLETE AND WILL LEARN AND DEVELOP. BE PATIENT I THINK YOU WILL WIN A SUPERBOWL IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF YEARS. THE COLTS ARE PLAYING WITH 2 ROOKIE WIDE RECEIVERS AND 2 ROOKIE DEFENSIVE BACKS I THINK YOUR TEAM IS AS OR MORE TALENTED THEN THEY ARE. AND SEE THEY ARE IN THE SUPERBOWL. I LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING THE VIKINGS PLAY NEXT YEAR.

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