Usually, when we talk about our memories associated with the Minnesota Vikings, we make an effort to focus on the positive moments. However, inspired by a post from our friends at Mile High Report, I wanted to go in a slightly different direction to spark some discussion for this weekend.<\/p>\n
What is the worst Minnesota Vikings game you\u2019ve ever been in attendance for?<\/p>\n
Now, as much as it saddens me to admit this, I haven\u2019t really been to as many Vikings games as I would like over the course of my lifetime. A lot of that stems from not being in close proximity to the Twin Cities for much of my adult life, but I still haven\u2019t gotten back as frequently as I would like to. However, one of the road games I managed to attend wound up being just awful.<\/p>\n
The date was 29 September 2002. My wife and I had just gotten to Tacoma, Washington, as we were moving to our assignment at McChord Air Force Base, which is in the Tacoma area. The Vikings were making one of their (seemingly) annual trips to face the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday Night Football. My wife was feeling a bit under the weather, but she gave me the go-ahead to make the 45-minute trip to Seattle while she rested up at our hotel. So, I jumped in the car, got me a ticket so high up in the stands at Seahawks Stadium that I could damn near see Canada, and got there just before kickoff.<\/p>\n
Things got off to a pretty rough start for the Vikings, as the Seahawks took the opening kickoff and went down the field with relatively little resistance, and Shaun Alexander went into the end zone on a short touchdown run. The Vikings then went three-and-out on their first possession, and the Seahawks went down the field again, as Alexander broke off a pair of long runs. . .a 43-yard blast followed by a 20-yard score to quickly make it 14-0.<\/p>\n
(There\u2019s going to be a theme developing here. See if you can find it.)<\/p>\n
The Vikings got on the board on the next drive, thanks to a touchdown run by Daunte Culpepper to make it 14-7. The two teams then exchanged field goals to make it 17-10 with about three minutes left before halftime.<\/p>\n
And then, all hell broke loose for the Vikings.<\/p>\n
At halftime, people. I paid money for a ticket for this.<\/p>\n
To their credit, I didn\u2019t take a lot of flak from the Seahawks fans around me in the stands. I think they were in as much of a state of disbelief as I was over what was happening.<\/p>\n
But yes, that was, by far, the worst Minnesota Vikings game that I had ever, personally, been in attendance for. Seeing one guy score five touchdowns in one half of football and having a team drop nearly half a hundred on your team in one half of football in prime time in a stadium filled with the other team\u2019s fans is not a lot of fun.<\/p>\n
So, how about you folks? What is the worst Vikings game that you\u2019ve ever been in attendance for?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Usually, when we talk about our memories associated with the Minnesota Vikings, we make an effort to focus…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":839489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2073],"tags":[7,233,259,59322,1312,2529,6,234],"class_list":{"0":"post-839488","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-minnesota-vikings","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-minnesota","10":"tag-minnesota-vikings","11":"tag-minnesota-vikings-discussion","12":"tag-minnesota-vikings-news","13":"tag-minnesotavikings","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-vikings"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116308307031554819","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=839488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/839489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=839488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=839488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=839488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}