My wife and I flew down to New Orleans for the Vikings-Saints NFC Championship. It was our first time ever going to this city. The people were so nice to us in pregame but then when the game time game it was a little different. It was an eerie feeling as the overtime came and fans were on edge. It is a feeling like I have never been a part of. If the Vikings win, do we get out unharmed? If the Saints win, we should be ok. As you know the Saints did win and it was fairly easy to get out as the celebration was going fast and furious. It was almost like the fans did not noitce us leaving.
The reason I bring this up is because of a fastenating fact I just came upon. I read the paper everyday and follow the team with a passion but still to stop and think about this fact kind of blew my mind.
The 22 Vikings 2009 Championship team starters they had, we are now down to 7 total in this upcoming season. There are 3 on offense with Adrian Peterson, John Sullivan and Phil Loadholt. The defense has 4 left. They are Jared Allen, Kevin Williams, Chad Greenway and Antoine Winfield.
In 3 years to go down to this few of staters in truly remarkable. The team has stated they want to go young and this fact of 7 starters left really summarizes the goal to get younger.
Vikings fans, we are seeing change right in front of our eyes. We stayed strong for a stadium. We now need to stay strong and support the team as we will see these young men mature football wise right in front of our eyes.
Purplestick
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