Daily Norseman
The second installment in my Season of Gratitude series. Don’t believe everything you see on TV.
It’s more than a feeling. It’s something deeper, something guttural and instinctual. Deep inside the core of your soul. The fire that burns for the Minnesota Vikings. The heartbreaking losses are ingrained in us Vikings fans, like an inescapable gene. Year after year we always fall short. Year after year we get our hopes up. There’s always next year. Year after year after year after year...
When listening to a Minnesota Vikings fan, one often hears the phrase “I’m ready to get hurt again.” Well guess what, I won’t get hurt again, I can’t. Not because I believe that the Vikings will go undefeated for the next 10 seasons, winning each Super Bowl consecutively (which frankly, is the outcome we’ve earned over the decades). It’s because that hurt is something I live with every day. It walks beside me. It lives in the shadows of my mind. I am so accustomed to that feeling of pure despair, anguish, and misery that comes from the inevitable Vikings’ collapse, from the years of torment, that the pain is irrelevant.
Don’t be mistaken. This does not mean that I have, by any means, given up on this team. What it means is that I will cheer for them week in and week out. I will have high expectations of the 2025 Minnesota Vikings; expectations that this can be the best team in the NFL and can prove it on the field all the way to Santa Clara. What I won’t do, is let a Vikings loss ruin my day. I am done mourning. I will skip past all phases of the Skol grief cycle and live in the world of acceptance. I will continue to be grateful that I wake up with air in my lungs and the knowledge that the best is yet to come for the Minnesota Vikings.
We are in the time of the preseason where everything is conjecture. It’s all on paper and everyone’s analysis is an opinion. The Minnesota Vikings look great on paper, and that is the framework from within I will operate until the first snap of the regular season takes place. This is the second segment in my series: Season of Gratitude, where I showcase the many things about the Minnesota Vikings, for which I am grateful.
I believe the tide is turning. We have rebuilt our warships over the years, each time stronger, and we are finally ready to conquer the NFL. It has been over six decades of soul, sweat, and tears bleeding for our forlorn franchise. The national media has always underestimated the Minnesota Vikings, perhaps rightfully so. What has this franchise done to ever prove the haters wrong? Sure we have had some great runs and have played in multiple conference championships and super bowls, but have never finished our story. Then why bother,...
