The Super Bowl is all over and now there is 213 days until we have football again. The 2012 season for those who love stats was one of the best. The NFL records that were broke were incredible such as our own Adrian Peterson or the Lion’s Calvin Johnson 1964 receiving yards just to name a couple.
The Vikings entered training camp in late July coming off a 3-13 record. The practice schedule had been changed for the first time so that the padded practices were in the afternoon. What would we see out of the Purple this year?
I did meet a family from the country of Denmark this camp. The son is a huge Vikings fan. It was so neat to sit down and talk about their country and the fascination of why be Vikings fans.
The shocking release of Sage Rosenfels and keeping Joe Webb and McLeod Bethel Thompson to me signified the Vikings were serious about the youth movement.
The draft class was hoping to help out and 8 out of 10 ended up making the squad.
It was time for the season to begin. The New York Giants lost the home opener to the Dallas Cowboys on Wednesday night football. It was the first time since 1999 a defending champion had lost in week 1. Is this a sign we might be in for a whacky season?
The Indianapolis Colts get the first pick and take Andrew Luck and did he respond. The Colts head coach Chuck Pagano takes a leave of absence to deal with medical issues. Bruce Arians steps in and gets the job done as the Colts make the playoffs.
The Vikings 3-13 in 2011 and then this year, 2012 they go 10-6 breaking a record of best turn around in franchise history increasing in wins by 7.
The Colts and Vikes make the playoffs, who would have seen this coming except for some hopeful fans in the respective cities?
The story in Seattle is incredible as they payout big bucks to get the Packers backup quarterback, Matt Flynn to sign in hopes of him being the man. A funny thing happens as 3rd round pick in the 2012 draft; Russell Wilson beats out Flynn and Tarvaris Jackson and becomes the opening day starter. The end result was a trip for Seattle to the playoffs.
The new wave of quarterbacking was seen with the read option run by Colin Kaepernick (49ers), Russell Wilson (Seahawks), and RGIII (Redskins) There was a ton of success so this upcoming 2013 draft will be interesting to see what teams go after.
The amount of coaches that were fired after the season was crazy. This whole season was crazy. Adrian Peterson has his knee torn up in 2011 and another man, Peyton Manning goes through 4 neck surgeries and one ends up with MVP and the other comeback player of the year.
The NFL is the best sport in the world!!!
The Monday after the Super Bowl is always a tough day for me as I face the fact next week there is no football.
I know I take a lot of grief for feeling this way as I get told there is more to life than football. It is just so fun to watch and it all starts with the draft, training camp and season tickets.
The fantasy football is done along with the weekly pools picking the winners makes each week so worth waiting for. I won the Super Bowl in my league for the first time in 10 years. I had Blair Walsh on my team along with the Vikings defense helping me out.
The 2013 football season will be my 20th training camp I will attend in Mankato so I am excited for that number. A lot of hours of sitting in the heat and watching practice and then of course taking a shot at meeting the guys who I hope lead us to the big game. It is all worth it.
The game Sunday with Baltimore and San Francisco I thoroughly enjoyed. The talk all week about Randy Moss and his efforts on the field made for interesting discussions.
The story line of the Harbaugh brothers is finally put to rest along with the Ray Lewis retirement story.
The commercials were enjoyable, the game was competitive to the end and now the season is over.
I loved this football season and all the memories.
As I stated earlier only 213 days until football is here again.
Thanks for reading
Purplestick
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