Hello,
Vikings fans. This is a bonus post for
this week. Expect the main post later
this week.
After
dismantling Cam Newton and making him look like a rookie, people began to
praise the Vikings defense calling them the “Purple People Eaters.”
You may
remember this as the nickname the Vikings defense acquired in the 1970s when
they were really, really good. Drawing
comparisons to the past is never a bad thing, but I also feel like that name
belongs to Alan Page, Jim Marshall, Paul Krause, and the rest of that team that
served as the heyday of the Vikings when we were good enough to at least appear
in Super Bowls.
It’s a
new era in Vikings football with a new stadium and expectations for the near
future are as high as they have been in some time. Mike Zimmer is doing his best to put the
Vikings in a position to succeed for years.
Not to
mention, the defense is really, really good again. I will always respect Bud Grant and his legacy
of putting this team in the national consciousness, but taking the nickname he
and his players earned just wouldn’t be right. We need a new nickname to pay tribute to the
monster Zimmer has created.
This
blog cannot take credit for creating this name, but we really like it and think
it best sums up what the Vikings defense does and will hopefully continue to do.
“The Zim
Reapers.”
Right
away, it leaps out at you. “The Zim
Reapers are knocking at your door!” “Fear
the Zim Reapers” could very well be the slogan of the 2016 Minnesota Vikings. I can foresee some kind of chant involving
the Zim Reapers being invented in the future.
Cam and Aaron will be seeing Harrison Smith, Everson Griffen and others
in their nightmares for the next month.
I love this
name and I heartily endorse it for the nickname of the Zimmer defense that is
finally starting to catch the attention of the nation.
Fear the Zim Reapers.
