The Vikings had been Kings of the North since
beating the Packers and continuing to win week after week until Carolina, but
Sunday the 17th made it official.
The Vikings showed no mercy, pounding a team that clearly had no
answers. We even got to see Teddy step
onto the field to a massive ovation. It
was a goosebumps moment.
Everything seems to be lining up for the Vikings to
take one of the top two NFC playoff seeds by force. With the Super Bowl being hosted by Minneapolis
this year, it goes without saying that home field advantage is as important as
it possibly could be. However, you also
have to have faith that this team could go on the road to defeat someone. The next two weeks will be very
intriguing. I feel like the Vikings
finish with no worse than 12 wins, and that’s if they slip up against a Packers
team with no Aaron Rodgers. The only two
things tipping the scales in Green Bay’s favor for that game are the game being
at Lambeau Field, and the fact that it will be very cold there tonight.
Zimmer should have the Vikings prepared to take this
one. A Vikings team that wasn’t quite as
good as this one beat the Packers at Lambeau Field to take the division two
years ago, and that was with a fully healthy #12. Brett Hundley is going to have to play like
Brett Favre for the Packers to have a chance in this game. However, we should not count our chickens
before they hatch. The 1988 Vikings were
in the midst of a season much like this one and lost to a much worse (4-12) Packers
team 18-6…on a cold night at Lambeau Field in week 16. They finished second in the division to
Chicago and eventually lost to San Francisco on the road in the second round of
the playoffs.
Which just goes to show you there’s always a bad
Vikings loss somewhere to remind fans to keep their hubris in check. Yes, the Vikes might win by 30, but Hundley
might surprise everyone. Here’s hoping
for the former.
And have a Merry Christmas, Skol Nation.
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