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admvp wrote: HOW??? Goodness, you are a stronger man than I. I'd rather come away saying "we got beat by a better team, we didn't deserve to win" than saying "we were clearly the better team, we just #### choked." (Which, in my opinion, was the case in both '98 and '10)

'00 wasn't pain-free; it sucked watching us get shelled like that, but the Giants were better.

That Anderson kick and the Favre INT, however... Those will haunt me forever unless we finally win one (which doesn't appear to be happening soon). And there's nothing I wouldn't do to erase those from my memory. So yes, I would rather those games have been blowout losses.

I could go on forever about this. I still don't know that I've adequately articulated what I want to say. Basically, playing the "what if" game (if Anderson makes the kick, if Longwell gets a chance against the Saints) is extremely painful to me, but also impossible to avoid doing.

PurpleHalo wrote: Off topic somewhat, but I have to. I believe the Vikings were a better team in 98, better than all. But what gets overlooked I think, Atlanta was a 14-2 team that season, they knew how to pull games out obviously and you had to beat them, not wait for them to fold. With that said the 15-1 team at home needs to win, most depressing ending to a game I have ever attended.

Funny thing is, I attended the opener down in Atlanta in 99, and we won that one, was 17-14 I think. That was almost more depressing, because I was like, yeah of course we win the one that matters little. And I knew that magic was going to be gone. Cunningham got hurt in that game, and was not the same, eventually got benched for Jeff George at half of the Lions game in Detroit.

Sorry for the rambling, but yeah.