PEWEEEEEEEEEEEE

[dun]

There as wind from the north and it really stinks. Probably the closer you get to MN the stronger the stink.

 

[upfrombottom]

Is that MN, Minnesota or my neighbor.

 

[3waycross]

There as wind from the north and it really stinks. Probably the closer you get to MN the stronger the stink.

Go easy Dun. I imagine our friends from Texas are not very happy right about now.......and you ain't that far from Texas.

 

[Anonymous]

I've always been a Dallas fan but they got their butts kicked today.

 

[LazyARanch]

LOL!!!


YAY VIKINGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(batting my eyes) retty: Brett, my HERO!! :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:

:banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana:

 

[angie1]

:banana:

I couldn't be any prouder of those guys if they were my own boys (or in Bretts case, my uncle.... :lol2: ).
If it came to a halt next week (which it WON'T), Mn would still have more than enough to be proud of. :nod:

 

[VanC]

There as wind from the north and it really stinks. Probably the closer you get to MN the stronger the stink.

Yeah, but it's been that way as long as I can remember.

If you're talking about the Cowboys, well, they looked pretty good till right after the coin toss. I've always thought that time off usually hurts a team more than helping, but I couldn't be more wrong so far. All three teams that had byes last week have looked very sharp. Should be a heckuva game in New Orleans next week.

 

[TexasBred]

Well I definitely do like the Cowboys but gotta give credit where it's due....The Vikings took the Cowboys out behind the woodshed this afternoon for sure. Thought the last TD didn't show a lot of class but theyll play again. Congrats to the Vikes and way to go # 4. (Still just ain't right playing football in Minnesota when it's 72 inside. I"m used to watching the old Bud Grant teams play in short sleeves when it was zero and a 30 mph wind blowing.

 

[manitgotcoldhere]

Well I definitely do like the Cowboys but gotta give credit where it's due....The Vikings took the Cowboys out behind the woodshed this afternoon for sure. Thought the last TD didn't show a lot of class but theyll play again. Congrats to the Vikes and way to go # 4. (Still just ain't right playing football in Minnesota when it's 72 inside. I"m used to watching the old Bud Grant teams play in short sleeves when it was zero and a 30 mph wind blowing.

I'm not sure I understand you with the last touchdown. Just because the cowboys gave up and quit playing with time left on the play clock, didn't mean the Viqueens had to quit playing to.

Maybe if Dallas didn't like the vikes scoring again they should have tried stopping them. Just Saying. The cowboys embarrassed themselves by LETTING the vikes run up the score.

 

[backhoeboogie]

Well I definitely do like the Cowboys but gotta give credit where it's due....The Vikings took the Cowboys out behind the woodshed this afternoon for sure. Thought the last TD didn't show a lot of class but theyll play again. Congrats to the Vikes and way to go # 4. (Still just ain't right playing football in Minnesota when it's 72 inside. I"m used to watching the old Bud Grant teams play in short sleeves when it was zero and a 30 mph wind blowing.

The old man still has the touch and the passion. We had a big feed here at the house. Home grown steaks and lots of friends and family to watch the game. Most of us are scared Jerry Jones will live forever. Now that T.O. is gone, I actually watched the boys most of the year.

When that last touchdown came, one of the die hard fans in the house said, "poetic justice". He was referring to the way Favre has been beaten down here in the past.

I haven't seen much of MN this year, but they have an impressive team. It sure makes me want to see that game with N.O.

 

[AudieWyoming]

Thought the last TD didn't show a lot of class but theyll play again. Congrats to the Vikes and way to go # 4.

I have never understood how that line of thinking applies in the NFL. These are not little league kids or your local high school. These are professional franchises with equal access to the same paid professional players. The offensive unit is being paid to try and score everytime they are on the field and it is the defense's JOB to try and prevent that or score themselves. :cry2: :cry2: :cry2: :cry2: because you didn't do your job is the classless act.

Not really attached to any of the remaining teams but I AM pulling for Favre. Like to and expect to see Peyton there.

 

[pdfangus]

Didn't have a dog in any of the fights this past weekend but enjoyed em all.

Particularly enjoyed seeing Dallas get its butt kicked.

dallas did run the ball well and the vikings ran the ball poorly for them.... but managed to prevail anyway.

 

[TexasBred]

Well I definitely do like the Cowboys but gotta give credit where it's due....The Vikings took the Cowboys out behind the woodshed this afternoon for sure. Thought the last TD didn't show a lot of class but theyll play again. Congrats to the Vikes and way to go # 4. (Still just ain't right playing football in Minnesota when it's 72 inside. I"m used to watching the old Bud Grant teams play in short sleeves when it was zero and a 30 mph wind blowing.

I'm not sure I understand you with the last touchdown. Just because the cowboys gave up and quit playing with time left on the play clock, didn't mean the Viqueens had to quit playing to.

Maybe if Dallas didn't like the vikes scoring again they should have tried stopping them. Just Saying. The cowboys embarrassed themselves by LETTING the vikes run up the score.

Manitgot...I guess they were trying to put the game out of reach huh??? Dallas would have to score 4 times in under a minute to win...Ever heard of the "kneel down"?? Teams do it everyday. Ages ago my coach would never let us run up the score...said someday one of those boys on the other team might be in a foxhole with us and he didn't want him to suddenly remember that score we ran up on them. I took it to heart.

 

[TexasBred]

Thought the last TD didn't show a lot of class but theyll play again. Congrats to the Vikes and way to go # 4.

I have never understood how that line of thinking applies in the NFL. These are not little league kids or your local high school. These are professional franchises with equal access to the same paid professional players. The offensive unit is being paid to try and score everytime they are on the field and it is the defense's JOB to try and prevent that or score themselves. :cry2: :cry2: :cry2: :cry2: because you didn't do your job is the classless act.

Not really attached to any of the remaining teams but I AM pulling for Favre. Like to and expect to see Peyton there.

Then you definitley don't know a hel of a lot about sportsmanship and you're saying that in a 50-48 final score both defenses were "classless". What a crock!!

 

[dun]

Ages ago my coach would never let us run up the score...said someday one of those boys on the other team might be in a foxhole with us and he didn't want him to suddenly remember that score we ran up on them. I took it to heart.

HS and clooge is a whole different deal then pro sports.

 

[pdfangus]

A COUPLE of other factors.

Favres history against the cowboys ,they were not always gracious with his old team.

I doubt that the last score was from a partiular design/ coach call. I think Favre saw something and let the ball fly and it worked out well.

If the vikings could have scored at will like that then why wasn't the score 100 to whatever the cowboys had?

 

[TexasBred]

Ages ago my coach would never let us run up the score...said someday one of those boys on the other team might be in a foxhole with us and he didn't want him to suddenly remember that score we ran up on them. I took it to heart.

HS and clooge is a whole different deal then pro sports.

But life goes on...and "professionalism" should walk with more class...... In a life and death situation you might beat someone to death. In sports, work career or whatever you want to call it we're seldom that threatened. But maybe Favre, his coach and the Vikings thought this might be there only chance to catch someone having an off day while they were at the top of their game the same day....so they had to do it while the opportunity was there. You just never know about these guys. I suppose anyone can justify anything in their own mind.

 

[VanC]

Vikings-Cowboys: Minnesota "Not Guilty" of Running Up the Score on Grown Men by Greg Eno

ESPN's Chris Spielman called it the most humiliating thing that’s ever happened to him on the football field. And Spielman played eight years for the Detroit Lions, so you know that he had quite a selection of humiliating moments from which to choose.

Spielman and the Lions were losing by a 45-0 margin to the Washington Redskins in Week One of the 1991 season. And yes, it was as bad as the score indicated. Maybe worse. But as bad as that butt-kicking was, it didn’t compare, in Spielman’s mind, to what happened toward the end of the game.

The 'Skins were driving again, with the ball inside the Lions’ 10-yard line. There were under two minutes to play. Then the humiliating part.

The Redskins took a knee. Then they took another knee, draining the clock of its remaining time. All while Spielman, the tough-as-nails middle linebacker from Massillon, Ohio, wished the Earth would open up and swallow him whole.

“When they [took the knee], I was embarrassed, humiliated. No one has ever taken pity on me or my teammates on the field before,” Spielman said afterward in the quiet of the Lions’ locker room.

The Redskins didn’t want to run up a 45-0 score to 52-0, which to a casual observer would appear to be a good, proper thing. But not to Spielman, who competed every week as if his very life depended on it.

“If they score, they score,” Spielman continued. “That’s better than feeling sorry for me!”

Spielman comes to mind in the wake of the Minnesota Vikings’ 34-3 win over the Dallas Cowboys yesterday in the NFC divisional playoffs. Seems some of the Cowboys, notably veteran linebacker Keith Brooking and head coach Wade Phillips, have accused the Vikings of running up the score—aggressively driving for a touchdown in the final minutes, already leading 27-3 and with the Cowboys devoid of timeouts.

Brooking screamed at Vikings coach Brad Childress and later called the final touchdown “classless.”

I can see both sides of the coin here. Like most disputes, the answer lies somewhere in the middle.

I think the beef the Cowboys have is with the Vikings’ play selection (read: too many passes). The Vikings took the ball over at the Dallas 37. There was 5:26 remaining. A couple first downs would have pretty much salted everything, if it wasn’t already salted to begin with.

Which brings me to the mother of all questions here.

Was the game salted away when the Vikings took over? If the Cowboys held them to a three-and-out, could they realistically have had a shot at tying the game—something which would have required three touchdowns and three two-point conversions? Oh, and at least two successful onside kicks?

Tony Romo is good, but he’s not David Copperfield.

Yet I also see the Vikings’ side. The game is meant to be played for 60 minutes. These are men on the field, not high schoolers or college students. Brooking is 34 years old. He ought to be able to take it.

Was the last touchdown necessary? Of course not. It occurred with less than two minutes remaining, on a 4th-and-3. The Vikes could have kicked the field goal and called it a game. In that scenario, I doubt you’d have heard much from Brooking, if anything at all.

So for four more points, there’s a big issue here? Is 34-3 that much worse than 30-3?

Broach that question to Chris Spielman and see what you get from him in reply.

I suppose I should take sides here. What fun is it to skewer a writer who’s fence-sitting?

OK, you want it? You got it: I’m in Spielman’s camp.

The Vikings didn’t need to score another touchdown, but the Cowboys needed a defensive stop in the worst way, and they couldn’t get one. So what were the Vikings supposed to do?

You could argue that they could have run more—which is also good clock management strategy. But they didn’t, and the Cowboys couldn’t stop them. Don’t the defenders bear some of the responsibility, too?

Bottom line: These are men on the field. They ought to take a little butt-kicking from time to time.

And this is coming from a guy who has hated the Minnesota Vikings since being a youngster and growing up a Detroit Lions fan.

But I don’t see all that much wrong with what they did yesterday. And I know Spielman wouldn’t, either. Of course, Spielman went to Ohio State, whose coach not only ran up the score on Michigan one year, he did it with venom.

Someone asked Woody Hayes why he’d gone for a two-point conversion, late in the Buckeyes’ 50-14 win over Michigan in 1968.

“Why did I go for two? Because I couldn’t go for three!” Woody snarled.

Now that's running up the score, folks.

The Cowboys ought to take their butt-kicking back to Texas like men and exact revenge on the field, which is always the best place for that kind of stuff, anyway.

 

[AudieWyoming]

Thought the last TD didn't show a lot of class but theyll play again. Congrats to the Vikes and way to go # 4.

I have never understood how that line of thinking applies in the NFL. These are not little league kids or your local high school. These are professional franchises with equal access to the same paid professional players. The offensive unit is being paid to try and score everytime they are on the field and it is the defense's JOB to try and prevent that or score themselves. :cry2: :cry2: :cry2: :cry2: because you didn't do your job is the classless act.

Not really attached to any of the remaining teams but I AM pulling for Favre. Like to and expect to see Peyton there.

Then you definitley don't know a hel of a lot about sportsmanship and you're saying that in a 50-48 final score both defenses were "classless". What a crock!!

T A&M,

Actually I DO have a firm grasp of sportsmanship, integrity, honesty, and fair play. Please go back and reread what I said S L O W L Y. Then maybe you could come back and explain your definition of sportsmanship in the NFL;

After every mundane play, the players are allowed to jump up, beat their chest, hawk over the tackled opponent, and prance around the field in the face of the opposing team, as if they were the first player in history to ever make a tackle. (For making the play they were expected to make)

Send the official chasing to retrieve the ball after every catch or first down.

Every break-away touchdown is preceded by a 5 or 10 yard hotdog strut and every touchdown requires a choreographed 2 minute stage show celebration.

Should I go on?

All of the above is allowed and encouraged by the league as Quintessential to the “entertainment value” of the game.

But let some team not lay down in the 4th quarter because the playoff, "win or go home," game they are playing in, is not important enough for their opponent to show up for. MY GAWD that’s the most classless, disrespectful show of sportsmanship we’ve ever seen!!!

BTW: If you were watching a two point game, you are in a serious state of denial. Now sit back, count to three, take a deep breath, I have highlighted the paramount word in this discussion for you.
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[MistyMorning]

Here's my take on that last touchdown. Favre had an ax to grind with the Cowboys, us older Vikes fans had an ax to grind with the Cowboys, Coaches wanted to show New Orleans they mean business. Just my 2 cents.

As a fan, it was a fantastic weekend of football. Looking forward to this weekend's games!