Revisiting Minnesota Vikings recent NFC Championship game losses

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1. Also, the Minneapolis Miracle felt like a Super Bowl win lol. And it was against the Saints. Still the coolest sports moment I’ve ever seen, a Walk off 60 yard touchdown and helmet toss

2. What if instead of taking a knee before halftime with 55 seconds left… You score more points!?

3. Thanks for helping us relive past Viking meltdowns after the Vikings epic meltdown at the end of this past season, while the Twins are continuing their epic meltdown from last season and the Wild and Wolves are melting down in important end of regular season games to set up post season meltdowns.

4. The 2017 championship was the culmination of Zimmers problem. It happened all season but no one saw it as obviously until it happened in the saints game. Vikings were guaranteed to give up 7 points in the 2 minutes before half and 2 minutes to the end of a game.

   When saints moved to the hurry up offense in the late 3rd, zimmers defensive scheming falls entirely apart because it required constant substitutions and active calling. As soon as we lost that ability(nearly ever game) we let them back in. After the first score in the eagles game, not only did our offense fall apart but the eagles decided on playing more hurry up and trickery and it absolutely exposed us. This is nothing new and the only thing that could have changed that game is truly the offense but the success of the defense was entirely nullified.

5. Also watch Moss go after a pass after Atlanta tied it up. Completely gave up on the ball. Plus Robert Smith running out of bounds instead keeping the clock moving.

6. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I was having such a good Saturday 😂

7. Heart Break . . . Black Sabbath / Pantera concert after the Vikes vs. Falcons 1998 game helped

8. GO. BACK TO DREW PERSON PUSHING NATE WRIGHT DOWN, TO CATCH THE HAIL MARY

9. I woke up this morning and stubbed my pinky toe getting out of bed.
   Seems only fitting that THIS would be the PD checkdown topic 🤣🙃

10. I was reflecting on this the other day. Had to go to the liquor store

11. It still hurts too much

12. My gut says when they laid up for a field goal. That was it!

13. excuse me…. Mr. Van Gelder??? You clearly are a post – 70's superbowls Vikings fan. I watch Purple Daily in hopes of erasing the memories of all the botched what-if plays of the past, not to relive them. I for one am still mad about Drew F***ing Pearson.

14. I had successfully erased several of those plays from my memory over the years and now will be stewing over them all weekend. On a personal note – right before the Gary A missed FG in 98 with about 3 min left I was on my couch in my Robert Smith jersey when he broke loose at midfield and I stood up and yelled "We're going to the SuperBowl!!" and right then he cut towards the sidelines and got pushed out of bounds. I said "What are you doing? We're trying to run out the clock!?!?!" Missed field goal with 1 min left and the rest is history…….. sigh

15. Depressing

16. Imagine if we had j j mccarthy then

17. Haven't drank in a year now.I want a beer

18. Nothing like having a cry in the middle of a Saturday 😢. Thanks fellas😂

19. This is why we all have purple PTSD and no game ever feels safe until it’s over….i.e giving up 11 pt lead to bears last year to go into overtime.

20. In 09 ray edwards strip sacked Brees late in saints territory and the saints recovered

21. What everyone forgets about that 09 game is the pick that went right between the hands of a defender in OT. Don't remember exactly who it was but we get that one I think we drive down the field and get a field goal. We had every chance in that game just couldn't make THE PLAY!

22. Yep 98 and 75 was the worst for me D Pearson pushing off in the nfc championship game, i think 75s team was the best but 98 is right there!

23. Seeing that pic of Favre brings so much pain

24. To blame 98 on Anderson has always been BS. The whole team was sloppy the entire game. That’s a team loss.

25. Judd makes a great point about the team deflating. That’s was an issue with the franchise in the past.
    The 1-0 mindset has entered the clubhouse and it makes a difference. We don’t see players pouting and looking defeated on the sidelines under KOC. a much needed attitude change.

26. 98- wasn’t meant to be
    00- Vikings weren’t ready
    09 – fumbled the game away
    17- interception swung moment and the Eagles never gave it back

27. Man this hurts. My first broken heart was in 1975 at 9 years old.

28. That 17 championship game was the game the Vikings defense was exposed and never fully recouped summers defense was never the same after it

29. This crushes my soul.

30. I didn't want to click on this video, but I did & now I'm stuck listening. All the pain comes back. I was in 6th grade for 98, I remember everything since. JJ McCarthy is going to overwrite all of this. I said it when he was at Michigan. We're going to be in a lot of big games with him. Hes 22, needs time, but choking is not in his DNA. A lot of fans are dumb & will blindly call any big game loss a choke job & thats who a person is forever. People forget Peyton Manning was widely seen a choker in big games his first 7-8 years in the league. Colts always won 13 games then did nothing in the playoffs. This was long before tiktok brained people had a voice on the internet. The hate from ignorant people fans would've been off the charts if he played today. JJ McCarthy is 22, he's going to win this franchise a Superbowl, if not multiple.

31. I feel you guys' pain with this exercise.

32. This is to brutal to relive

33. the case keenum pick was 100% on the o line

34. Biggest? All of the above.

35. The 98 NFC Championship loss will forever haunt me as a Vikings fan. I just knew it was our year.

36. This seems like an exercise in masochism.

37. Vikings looked slow and unmotivated versus Eagles. Too much celebrating miracle win.

38. Canopy Group ? What happened to Federated Insurance Mackey ?

39. I couldn't keep listening–it brought up too many rough memories. Please, god, just one @#$% ring before I die! They could have also talked about all the 'what if's' from the 1975 Vikes-Cowboys divisional game and another what-if that goes even further back–What if the Vikes had kept Joe Kapp after Super Bowl IV instead of letting him walk away, wasting several years trying to find a QB to replace him, and watching their elite defense get older every year? In his autobiography, Kapp says he only wanted 20K more a year to stay on the team and the front office refused to pay it, so he got pissed and left. Kapp was the emotional leader of the team, and the Vikes would have had a much better opportunity to win a Lombardi if he had stayed.

40. Feeling a little masochistic today. Why not relive all my most painful sports memories for 20 minutes straight? 😅

41. Why are we doing this?! O were Vikings fans we love the pain