Head of Rothchild

Ok, Ok, I promise this is the last Vikings related post until the end of July when im in Sunny Mankato Minnesota for 3 a days. After this its back to music music MUSIC. I dont watch Espn. I rarely watch NFL Network for football news. Espn is a joke with their flavor of the minute reporters who are NEVER held accountable for what they say. This list includes Trent Dilfer, Ed Werder, and Adam Schefter. For the NFL network it goes to Jamie Dukes who makes a living on prediction scenarios that rarely ever come true. I debated him early last year on twitter and he basically called me a joke for defending the Minnesota Vikings telling him that there is NO WAY they would sign Michael Vick. He called me “crazy and living in dreamland” I wanted to screen shot it and put it up here but his twitter feed is way too long. For my Vikings news I go to the people who are right down the street from Winter Park. I stream local Minnesota sports radio on 1130AM KFAN. you can stream it here WWW.KFAN.COM Paul Allen is the voice of the Minnesota Vikings and is great to listen to.  He is also from Maryland by the way.  Obviously if you dont ride with the purple and gold I suggest you look up the local radio broadcast in your city.  The reason I bring this up is because I wanted to share with you just how bad it is for Vikings fans like us right now.  Here is a journal entry called “PA’s Prattle” that Paul Allen has on the KFAN website.  It does a great job on capturing  just how bad it was in the locker room after the game and how this season was more than just a season ending game.  We were on the door step of the Super Bowl which is something I have never  even sniffed before.  You can catch all of his updates here   http://kfan.com/pages/psn_paulallen.html

MONDAY
BITS AND BOREDOM …

I don’t consider myself a member of the media. I do a feel-good radio show, call races and football games. Thus while the media was grinding away in the locker room post Drew Orleans I was able to let people know how much I enjoy working with this football team. It was from the heart and was the right thing to do following the awful loss.
There were tears dropping many an eye and that these guys truly cares matters a lot to me. So, I approached players, coaches, Veeps and owners and expressed my gratitude for allowing me behind the scenes of a pro football team and considering me a family member. I thanked several for coming on the radio show and/or for enhancing my ‘Football Mind in ways few ever will know. I approached PHIL LOADHOLT and JOHN SULLIVAN and reminded them how important and good they were in their first full seasons as starters. Sullivan — a undersized center — replaced Minnesota Immortality and started 18 games for a team an inch from the Super Bowl. There’s better to come from him, too. John is a hard worker and very smart and will have a long, prosperous career in his chose profession. I thanked GREG LEWIS for winning the Niners game and wished him well this offseason. ADRIAN embraced me and thanked me “for the great calls this year” and I shared with him I wish nothing but success for him for years to come. After CHAD GREENWAY was done complaining about the officiating we watched the final stages of the Saints’ Halas Trophy celebration and I thanked him for all those interviews he did with me and for coming to Park Tavern the Tuesday leading up to the Dallas game. He showed up on his birthday, too.

I thanked LESLIE FRAZIER for all those 7 a.m. taped interviews we did and told him I cannot wait for the day he becomes a head coach. I told RYAN LONGWELL I was very frustrated they didn’t give him a chance to win the game from around 55 and never will forget the final moments of regulation. Ryan Longwell should have been given a chance to kick us to Miami and did not receive the opportunity. That sucks, too. Then I got up the guts to talk to BRETT FAVRE. He was teary-eyed. He just had an emotional embrace with SIDNEY RICE and was very downtrodden. I shook his hand, looked him in the eyes and told him, “In my eight years of doing play by play for this team I have never been around a star like you. You are the best football player I ever have seen in my life and it was a professional highlight calling your games and having a stake in this season. I really hope you play here next year.” He wrapped his left arm around me and said, “Thanks, Paul.” I’ll never forget that moment as long as I live. We’ll ‘Prattle on other sports and teams and offer more Vikes-related opinions beginning tomorrow, but this is a day for me, fans and Vikes’ staffers to recognize the wonderful run we had this year and how special it was to work with and root for Brett Favre, one of the all-time greats.