9:20 - We lose the NFC Championship game. It's Brett Favre's fault. Just goes to show what happens when you put your faith in a Packer. Once a Packer, always a Packer.
9:18- 4th down. The season comes down to this. It all comes down to this.
9:14 - Catch made. Game over. Challenge. I don't know. Game riding on the refs a lot.
9:13 - Tackle nearly out of range. I know all I'm doing is repeating events, but they speak for themselves. I am in bad shape right now.
9:12 - Pass interference. Saints in field goal range. It is over.
9:10 - Another review. Against the first down. Waiiiiiiting. It's taking a long time. Don't know what that means. First down. It's upheld. Ten more yards, we lose our chance.
9:08 - It's upheld.
9:05 - 4th down. They will review it. It will probably stay. Second biggest play in my life as a Vikings fan.
9:04 - I just instant tear cried on that incompletion. Didn't know the eyes could formulate and then repress tears so quickly.
8:59 - I am wayyyy low right now. I just want to die. The writing is on the wall. Favre is crying. He knows, as well as I do.
8:56 - New Orleans gets the ball in Overtime. It's over. Throw in the towel. The fat lady has sung. We're the same old Vikings.
8:54 - More flashes of 98. It isn't meant to happen. We are the Vikings.
8:53 - We are cursed. We are cursed. We are cursed.
8:51 - We just got knocked out of field goal range. We need to get ten more yards. One field goal away from the Super Bowl. I've seen this before. My soul is on the line.
8:48 - WERE IN FIELD GOAL RANGE!!!! THEY HAVE NO TIMEOUTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ONLY THE VIKINGS COULD FAIL HERE!!!!!!!! I AM SHAKING!!!!!!!
8:46 - First down. Flashes of 98'. My innocence, lost for over a decade, is on the line.
8:43 - I will restate this. 2 minutes. Twenty yard line. Brett Favre has the football. Ecstasy of Gold from The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly needs to be playing in the background.
8:41- Looks like a turnover on downs. 2:47 left. Favre has the ball. This is the stuff legends are made of.
8:37- Tied with 5 minutes to go. I still can't get my mind around a possible win. We do this, I will probably look like Kevin Garnett after the Celtics won the finals. In which case, I will come back to the blog and translate my gibberish a day later or so.
8:34- 28-28 Touchdown Peterson. I just breathed the mother of all sighs of relief.
8:31 - Favre has been hit fifteen times tonight. The guy is 40 years old near the end of a full NFL season. He somehow pulls a win out of this...
8:26 - I have lost all wit. We get the ball back, and I have nothing smart to say. This game has beaten out of me whatever minimal amount of wit I possessed.
8:21- BERRIAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am on the verge of tears right now.
8:19- BERRIAN!!! Saved the game. It would have been over if he'd dropped that.
8:18 - Favre almost cancels it out with an interception. Sidney Rice does some impressive work to keep that from happening. Ugh. Vikings. I'm starting to wince with every play. Never a good sign.
8:17 - Adrian Peterson running with something to prove. That's always beautiful. He needs to keep that up. This meltdown needs to end NOW.
8:14 - Time for the Vikings to answer back. Favre gets no pass protection and the last four times we've run the ball, we've fumbled. If we can find some form of offense, outside of running and passing, we have a shot.
8:11 -28-21 Touchdown Saints. We're cursed. I'm not a pessimist. I'm a realist. Supernatural forces oppress Minnesota Vikings football.
8:09 - 4th and Goal. Challenge coming. They'll probably get it.
8:08 - We stop them to a field goal, I won't give up all hope. There never was much hope. Just a fool's hope.
8:05 - Harvin fumbles. The Vikings curse is in full effect.
8:02- HUGE stop by the defense. Favre was lying on the sidelines. They were taping him up. Here's hoping this isn't a Vikings-esque meltdown but an ESPN Classic in the making. The Quarter. Broken and beaten down by the Saints defence, the oldest quarterback in NFL Championship Playoffs history takes his team through one last grueling quarter to lead them to the Super Bowl.
7:57 - Interception Favre. Things are starting to fall apart. Favre needs help off the field. This is not good at all. If this game were the monomyth, this point would be the apotheosis.
7:55 - Turned out to be nothing.
7:54 - We got the first down. But Favre looks hurt. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. I'm replacing the words I'm actually thinking. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no.
7:52- Peterson LOST THE FOOTBALL AGAIN!!!! Actually though, it gained us like another ten yards. At least he got back on it. It was actually a really miraculous recovery.
7:49 - Bad field position. If the Vikings manage to score this drive, I may start to become incredibly emotionally invested in this game. I should not be held responsible for anything I say should that happen.
7:47 - Penalty flag. The refs seem to be leaving it intentionally ambiguous. Turns out to be against the Saints. Ball back to us.
7:43 - I don't know what to make of From Paris with Love. They have yet to show me anything from the movie that could be the least bit enticing. Like, The Boondock Saints 2 trailer looked more appealing than this film. Poor marketing or is the film really just that devoid of anything good?
7:40- 21-21 Shiancoe is doing some brilliant work. Touchdown goes to Peterson. We're back in it. Negative vibe is still lingering. At least we answered. Hopefully it s just my intense pessimism from the Vikings' track record.
7:37 - Peterson fumbles. What is his problem!?!?! I'm almost tempted to take back my Jerome Bettis/Walter Payton comment. Maybe I'll just toss Daunte Culpepper into the equation as well.
7:34 - No touchdown for the Saints that last drive. No challenge either. Did Childress just not care whether they went up by 7 or not?
7:33 - Has the same robot animation been used by Fox for the last two decades?
7:30 - 21-14 Touchdown Saints. Their first lead of the game. Remember when they fumbled inside the red zone and we got it with less than two minutes left in the game?
7:29 - That sickening vibe I started to get when we fumbled is continuing and getting stronger. We REALLY need to keep this game from getting out of hand. We need to hold them to a field goal.
7:27 - Opening kickoff return to the 45 of the Vikings. Great. It wouldn't hurt so much if we were up a touchdown.
7:22 - Local news shows all of the super hardcore Vikings fans who didn't travel to watch their team.
7:19 - Michael Strahan could be the worst commentator of all time. The air blowing through the Red Sea parting in his teeth is like nails on a chalkboard. I'm sure he has good things to say. But so does Roger Ebert, and he at least knew when he wasn't going to be able to do TV anymore.
7:13- Half Time. A BIG wasted opportunity. Why do I get this terrifying vibe that this will come back to haunt us? Oh yah. Because it always has.
7:10 - Favre and Peterson return the favor....
7:08 - BUSH FUMBLES!!! VIKINGS INSIDE THE RED ZONE!!!!
7:02- Commercials for Colts AFC Championship shirts and hats. Donate to have Jets AFC Championship shirts and hats sent directly to Haiti.
7:00 - Vikings get the ball back with two minutes. More commercials. Poor Luke Wilson.
6:55 - Quick turnover on downs. That was pretty disappointing.
6:53 - I LOVE that Favre's hometown now has a Vikings helmet posted on their sign next to the Packer's helmet.
6:52 - Pat Williams shuts that drive down. Time to get the ball back again. We need to score before half.
6:46 - Peterson hurtles the line, one play after destroying one of the Saints players. The man, when running hard, is a force of nature. The perfect combination of Walter Payton and Jerome Bettis.
6:39 - Timeout Favre. I'm going to take this moment to acknowledge what every single Vikings fan watching this game (I could just say every single Vikings fan) is thinking right now. The last two times we've been to this game (1998 and 2000) were two of the most disappointing games of the last decade. I haven't been alive to see a Vikings Super Bowl. I can't really think of a sporting event that would be more exciting than the Vikings making it to the Super Bowl. If we do somehow pull this out, I plan on kissing someone in the room. None of them are following my blog so they won't know it will happen. It will hit them like the Alabama players nailed Nick Saban on the back of the head after he won the National Championship.
6:35 -14-14 Touchdown Saints. Tie game. Alright, I'm going to start making deals here. If the Saints don't score again, I promise I will stop referencing Joe Buck's quote from the first quarter.
6:33 - Good catch by Reggie Bush. Although I don't think you should be allowed to flex your biceps when it only takes one person to tackle you.
6:30 - Twist ending to the State Farm commercial (Spoiler Alert). The man with the odd ball in his stomach was not actually pregnant. My own personal belief (though there's no proof of this); the woman in the commercial was not pregnant either.
SECOND QUARTER
6:28 - We turn it over on downs. For those who were hoping that the defenses would make a couple of stops, well, you are getting what you expected.
6:27 - More commentary on what is negatively affecting Brett Favre, even though he is having a downright brilliant game.
6:24 - Turnover on downs to end the quarter. Good opportunity for a bathroom break.
6:21 - Finally. Hit behind the line by Greenway and Williams. We're going to need a lot more of that if this game is going to work at all. We almost had another one. For a forty yard loss.
6:19 - Commercial Report: Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan star in Tough Guy and Cliche Loud Black Man Part XII
6:17 - Touchdown Minnesota. We're getting what we expected (if we were expecting a high scoring shootout).
6:15 - Is it just me, or have the commentators talked about how tired or beaten Favre is between every single play? The guy's getting hit (after the play) but his game hasn't suffered at all.
6:12 - Quick mini-post to acknowledge a gorgeous run after by Bernard Berian.
6:11 - I thought I just saw the first ugly pass from Favre all season. Turned out to be defensive holding. I figured as much.
6:10 - There's a lot of zooming going on with the camerawork here. We just pulled out from a closeup of a sign out to a completely incomprehensible shot of the players somewhere off in the distance.
6:03 - Touchdown Saints. I was going to post something about the nature of the game, but I think Joe Buck topped whatever I could possibly say. "If you were expecting a shoot out, or expecting a lot of offense... (second pause) you are getting what you expected."
6:02 - Brees has wayyy too much time in the pocket right now. Also, the commercials are really, really awful. I mean, I know it's not the super bowl, but the Verizon adds have almost convinced me to convert and follow Luke Wilson.
5:52 - Touchdown Vikings. Peterson looks great. So does Favre. The "loudest arena in football" sounds pretty silent right now.
-Also, I realize that's about as cliche of a fan statement as a person could ever post. Insert maniacal, slightly ignorant chuckling.
5:47 - Favre's first completion is to Kleinsasser, the man responsible for such historic Vikings moments as the on-side kick fumble that lost us the game against Arizona to complete the single greatest collapse in regular season NFL history in 2004.
5:45 - Fox coverage is the worst that there is. We apparently missed the coin toss for the awful commercials. Also, is it just me, or even though we're watching this game in apparent HD, does Fox's coverage still look like ABC and CBS did ten years ago?
5:41 - Having never seen American Idol, I didn't know who Kris Allen was. All I know is that with the microphone in front of his face, he looks a lot like Edward Cullen. The singing kind of matches.
5:35 - Why is the NFL so obsessed with Frank Caliendo? I think he's trying to do Jack Nicholson. I also think the sign of a bad impression is when they have to put the name of the guy you are impersonating right next to you, just in case.
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