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I have put off posting any news from the Vikings organization since the end of the season. I have been awaiting some sort of concrete news of a move to drastically improve this team. What we got? Squat. Sure, we got a vanilla quarterback for a vanilla offense. Vanilla + vanilla = SuperBowl? Un-frickin-likely. As I dole out my latest installation of frustration dollars for season tickets at the Retro-Dome I am as fed up as I can be. I can understand letting go a few aging stars like Birk or Sharper. Tell me you will fix it in the hit-or-miss draft? Right. This team is in need of a serious ass-kicking to get it off the line this year and all signs point towards more money for waxing Childress' dome than expending serious efforts on real stars. Why are Birk and Sharper gone, two serious athletes with talent? To pursue teams that are closer to the real deal than this team. Sure, young players hungry for NFL playtime and experience are jumping to play here, but those in the know are stepping to other cities. Welcome to the Chill Zone, Zygi. Its not getting any better, and each time I lick the envelope to send you another chunk of change for an overpriced NFL ticket I become more likely than not to demand satisfaction. Today. Not three years from now. This fan base pays more than most fans per seat in stadium to stadium experience yet get the same half-assed efforts year in and year out under Childress. Barely popping in the playoffs means nothing, for those of you keeping score. Tice had less than half the staff, far lower payroll, and questionable talent at best and accomplished more in his years with his sweatervest than the great "chess player" has done with unlimited expenditures. I want some serious effort this year for wins. Not more BS about how long it takes a coach to take a shell of a franchise--with which a previous coach made a damn good run. That this coach needed all these years and money to post worse records and far more questionable strategy on the field. Its time to step up. We will back you for a stadium, but this team needs to look like it has leadership and not spend more years yammering about the special attributes of some KAO that has failed to appear despite the best two-tandem running attack in the game. Why do I continue as a Vikings fan? Because it is the purple blood coursing through my veins and the desperate hope that someone at Winter Park wakes up and takes a giant shiny boot after the coaching staff. SKOL Vikings. GET IT DONE. |
