Looking at the game from Vikings perspective (1 Viewer)

[Zack Lee]

We look at this game as a minor road bump on our way to hopefully much bigger things once again. But how must is feel to them after what happened two years ago. They had an article that got me thinking about this. God I am glad we are not on the other side.

Tribune Article

"There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come. ... Our time is now."

That was the message from coach Brad Childress that was attached to each player's locker stall when the Vikings played the Saints in the NFC Championship Game at the Superdome on Jan. 24, 2010.

Looking back on it 23 months later, Childress' words take on a certain cryptic tone. They were right, but not in the way Childress had intended them.

When the Vikings didn't seize their moment -- ruining a dominating performance with five turnovers in a 31-28 overtime loss -- few, if any, suspected that the window of opportunity for Childress and that particular team slammed shut the moment Garrett Hartley's game-winning 40-yard field goal cleared the crossbar

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[ColGorgeSaint]

I fail to see how their performance is viewed as dominant.

 

[Zack Lee]

I fail to see how their performance is viewed as dominant.

yes but that is beside the point. When I read the article it just made me glad that we walked away with all of it in 09. To even think about sitting here and having nothing more than "what if" at this point makes me sigh with relief.

 

[jbourque]

If I were a Vikings fan I'm not sure I would ever get over that loss. Who will ever forget 12 men in the huddle? The two franchises went in complete and opposite directions after this game. Looking back, the stakes were even higher than they appeared.

The Superbowl was lagniappe. For me, the greatest Saint's game will always be the 2009 NFCCG, the game that put us on the map and validated a franchise, transforming us from losers to showing we could contend on a world stage. Everything changed for us with that Hartley field goal. It was emotional, it was fantastic, it was the greatest game we have won IMO. I will never forget that game.

 

[the-commish]

What really stuck with me was, after the NFCCG, almost all the "experts" and "pundits" were saying how the Colts were going to manhandle the Saints in Superbowl XLIV, since the Saints should have lost to the Vikings.

Many of us on this board believed the Saints were going to win, since we had better coaching. When Rickey Jackson was voted into the HOF the day before the big game, we knew it was an omen of Saints' victory.

 

[BigA3723]

Something some might not have noticed, we went through 3 HOF QBs on that SB win! Kurt Warner, Brett Farve, and Peyton Manning! That was probably one of the toughest roads in recent history to SB win!

 

[Zack Lee]

Something some might not have noticed, we went through 3 HOF QBs on that SB win! Kurt Warner, Brett Farve, and Peyton Manning! That was probably one of the toughest roads in recent history to SB win!

I am betting on this board, 90 percent realized that in 2009, although some of us said 3 hall of famers and some said 2 and a maybe.

 

[the-commish]

Something some might not have noticed, we went through 3 HOF QBs on that SB win! Kurt Warner, Brett Farve, and Peyton Manning! That was probably one of the toughest roads in recent history to SB win!

"Potential" HOF QBs. None of these QBs is currently eligible for the HOF, although I agree all of them will eventually make it in.

 

[scottius aurelius]

Something some might not have noticed, we went through 3 HOF QBs on that SB win! Kurt Warner, Brett Farve, and Peyton Manning! That was probably one of the toughest roads in recent history to SB win!

That point was not lost on this board my friend

 

[buckeyesaint]

Something some might not have noticed, we went through 3 HOF QBs on that SB win! Kurt Warner, Brett Farve, and Peyton Manning! That was probably one of the toughest roads in recent history to SB win!

And thumped Tom Brady in the regular season.....

 

[SaintRob39]

yes but that is beside the point. When I read the article it just made me glad that we walked away with all of it in 09. To even think about sitting here and having nothing more than "what if" at this point makes me sigh with relief.

I need to go on the Falcons board and ask them what a "what if" means. I am not familiar with that. I heard they know all about it.