2011 Vikings...

What an amazingly crappy start to what could have been a great season. This year the Vikings were a team capable of a 3-0 start yet they found themselves 'asleep at the wheel' for the final 30 minutes of each game.

Sure, it's only been 3 weeks, but this team is a massive disappointment.  The first 3-4 weeks looked like the easy part of this year's schedule.

To top off the losses, this team was in TOTAL CONTROL of the first halves of each game!  Adrian Peterson must feel like a sucker for having signed another long-term contract.  Also, was Frazier on the phone with Brad Childress in the Detroit game?  Why 'go for it' on 4th down!?!?!  The MATH didn't even make sense (with a field goal, a DET TD would have only put the Vikes down by 1 - making a field goal instead of a TD necessary to win).  AP thought they could get the 1 yard?  The last time I checked, he is paid to run the ball not make key decisions.

Enough disparaging the Vikings.  I want to send them all of the positive thoughts I can right now because they are playing one of the other four 0-3 teams in the NFL this weekend and that team (KC Chiefs) is also having a less-than-capable season also.

There are 13 games left in this season and I hope the Vikings go 13-0.  They have a long road ahead, but at least they have 'limited success' going for them.  Despite my ranting, I am a hardcore fan...I even have the bumper sticker (okay, that was some weak reasoning - but I am a fan).

SKOL Vikings!  ...just please don't continue to "SKOL-lapse!"