Painful Viking moments

[BigRedFan]

4 Super Bowl losses, including 1969 when they had the most points and given up the fewest during the regular season

1975: Lose Hail Mary game to Dallas.

1987: Lose NFC championship game to Redskins, 4th down pass dropped at goal line to lose the game.

1998: Lose the NFC championship to Atlanta after having a 15-1 record and most points in a season ever. Gary Anderson missed his only attempt that season which would have sealed the game.

2000: Vikings get blown out in the NFC championship against the Giants 41-0, one of the most lopsided games in playoff history.

2003: Vikings lose to the Cardinals after having a large lead late in the game, knocked out of playoff contention after starting 6-0, Cardinals with one of their worst teams ever that yr. Josh McCown and Nate Poole do their imitation of The Catch from Montana to Dwight Clark.

2009: Vikings lose as Brett Favre throws an INT on what could have been a game winning drive

2015: Vikings lose on a 27 yard missed FG. Blair Walsh was 34/39 in FG attempts this year and 33/34 for 30 yards or less for his career.

 

[Ed Burmila]

Today was brutal, as bad as the Gary Anderson game. Watched that game with a Vikings fan who actually cried at the end. I didn't blame him.

 

[BullheadCardFan]

That's a long list of getting stomach punched if you are a fan.

 

[AZfaninMN]

Today was brutal, as bad as the Gary Anderson game. Watched that game with a Vikings fan who actually cried at the end. I didn't blame him.

My wife told me my brother-in-law cried during the 98 game and when I was in college a girl who lived above me cried all the way home on her flight from Arizona in 03 game


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[Jasper]

I think Buffalo losing 4 Super Bowls is more painful.

 

[MrYeahBut]

50 years of suckitude is painful too, as we all are well aware. Maybe it's 100 years, but who's counting?

 

[Buckybird]

Feel bad for the Vikes fans, lots of big game loses. Back when I became a Cards fan in the mid 70s I always liked & rooted for those Purple People Eaters after my Big Red.

 

[babedimancheff]

its not Sucking. Its still a form of success reaching 47 playoff games
what this translates to is many more playoff appearances and wins than the Cardinals have ever seen.

Cardinals 6-8
Vikings 19-28

although the Chicago Cardinals do have a 1947 championship win

 

[pemory09]

4 Super Bowl losses, including 1969 when they had the most points and given up the fewest during the regular season

1975: Lose Hail Mary game to Dallas.

1987: Lose NFC championship game to Redskins, 4th down pass dropped at goal line to lose the game.

1998: Lose the NFC championship to Atlanta after having a 15-1 record and most points in a season ever. Gary Anderson missed his only attempt that season which would have sealed the game.

2000: Vikings get blown out in the NFC championship against the Giants 41-0, one of the most lopsided games in playoff history.

2003: Vikings lose to the Cardinals after having a large lead late in the game, knocked out of playoff contention after starting 6-0, Cardinals with one of their worst teams ever that yr. Josh McCown and Nate Poole do their imitation of The Catch from Montana to Dwight Clark.

2009: Vikings lose as Brett Favre throws an INT on what could have been a game winning drive

2015: Vikings lose on a 27 yard missed FG. Blair Walsh was 34/39 in FG attempts this year and 33/34 for 30 yards or less for his career.

That's a lot of pain....

 

[Jake6233]

its not Sucking. Its still a form of success reaching 47 playoff games
what this translates to is many more playoff appearances and wins than the Cardinals have ever seen.

Cardinals 6-8
Vikings 19-28

although the Chicago Cardinals do have a 1947 championship win

Vikings - no super bowl wins and no super bowl appearances since 1977 but your right I'm so envious of all the success the vikings have had as a franchise. One only has to look at the first post on this thread to see all those great moments in basically all of the key games the vikings have had as a franchise over the last 30 plus years to see why there is so much to be happy about.

 

[football karma]

The Gary Anderson game had to be 10x worse than this

Even the most optimistic Viking fan knew this years version had a limited playoff life -- that 98 team was a Super Bowl favorite.

 

[Passepartout]

I feel bad for Blair Walsh. And that should had been a chip shop make. But it was due to the laces out and the weather are the factors.

 

[Cheesebeef]

they're the Phoenix Suns of the NFL.

 

[NJCardFan]

they're the Phoenix Suns of the NFL.

To put a more recent spin on it, they're the Texas Rangers of the NFL.

 

[babedimancheff]

Vikings - no super bowl wins and no super bowl appearances since 1977 but your right I'm so envious of all the success the vikings have had as a franchise. One only has to look at the first post on this thread to see all those great moments in basically all of the key games the vikings have had as a franchise over the last 30 plus years to see why there is so much to be happy about.

making it to 4 SBs obviously means winning playoff games.

the owners gained profit those years. Its a win-win.

 

[JCSunsfan]

I grew up rooting for the Vikings. I lived in AZ all that time, I had to pick a team and everyone else was a Cowboys fan, so I chose the Vikings. Dashed hopes was my fate.

I immediately switched to the Cardinals once we had a home town team.

 

[NJCardFan]

 

[BigRedFan]

I saw that the completed pass was to Kilmer for the 49ers. Did a search and sure enough that was Billy Kilmer, the Washington QB who played in the mid 70s. (I remember the Redskins/Cardinal games when Kilmer and Jim Hart were QB)

 

[CT Card Fan]

4 Super Bowl losses, including 1969 when they had the most points and given up the fewest during the regular season

1975: Lose Hail Mary game to Dallas.

1987: Lose NFC championship game to Redskins, 4th down pass dropped at goal line to lose the game.

1998: Lose the NFC championship to Atlanta after having a 15-1 record and most points in a season ever. Gary Anderson missed his only attempt that season which would have sealed the game.

2000: Vikings get blown out in the NFC championship against the Giants 41-0, one of the most lopsided games in playoff history.

2003: Vikings lose to the Cardinals after having a large lead late in the game, knocked out of playoff contention after starting 6-0, Cardinals with one of their worst teams ever that yr. Josh McCown and Nate Poole do their imitation of The Catch from Montana to Dwight Clark.

2009: Vikings lose as Brett Favre throws an INT on what could have been a game winning drive

2015: Vikings lose on a 27 yard missed FG. Blair Walsh was 34/39 in FG attempts this year and 33/34 for 30 yards or less for his career.

Did the Vikings screw over Pottsville too? With this kind of track record, you have to wonder.

 

[NJCardFan]

Did the Vikings screw over Pottsville too? With this kind of track record, you have to wonder.

Sad thing is, in their 4 Super Bowl losses, the games weren't close and they got blown out in 3 of them.

 

[TheCardinal]

Did the Vikings screw over Pottsville too? With this kind of track record, you have to wonder.

I have read that the Vikings' "curse" comes from the stolen NFL Championship trophy. Story goes that the NFL used to have a rotating trophy like the Stanley Cup for its champion, pre-Super Bowl. The team would keep a replica, but the original one (from the 1930s, I think) got passed around. By 1969, the NFL-AFL merger was already set to happen and the Super Bowl (with its own trophy) was the real prize. The Vikings DID win the "NFL" championship in 1969 and got the old NFL trophy, then lost to KC in the Super Bowl (the Chiefs were AFL and World Champs, but not NFL champs).

Everyone then forgot about the old NFL trophy and in 1970 (with the merger complete), had a different trophy for the NFC and AFC champ. A few years later, the NFL came asking Minnesota for the original trophy back (I think it was called the Ed Thorpe trophy) but the Vikings claimed no one had it and didn't know where it was. Still missing to this day (probably on someone's mantle in Minneapolis). And so, the legend goes that until it is returned, the Vikings will never again be NFL champs.