I'm to the point now on Sundays where I'm 40% Vikings and 60% fantasy football. As in I'll trade a Vikings loss if it means I'll get a fantasy football win. At least I know my fantasy football team has a chance to not blow it when it really starts to count.
On a related note my Vikings fandom basically consists of expecting them to lose every game they play... especially the important ones. That way I'm never disappointed when they perform like they did against Green Bay in week 16 but I'm just as happy when they perform like they did in New Orleans in the wild card round of the playoffs. The last time I let my guard down was the week after the Minneapolis Miracle thinking "This has to be the year after something like that happened!"... never again will I let the Vikings give my nuts another free shot like I did then.
I will have to say that fantasy adds a great addition to the NFL. As for Clowney. It is a shame he did not get ejected for that cheap shot. I will say the one sweet thing about the Vike season was the win in New Orleans. The dirty Bountygate crap has eaten at me for years. That really was the forced end to Farve's career because he was do beat up during that game. He never healed up.
I have the honor to be Your Obedient Servant - B.Aud
We all live in stories... It seems to me that a definition of any living vibrant society is that you constantly question those stories... The argument itself is freedom. It's not that you come to a conclusion about it. Through that argument you change your mind sometimes... That's how societies grow. When you can't retell for yourself the stories of your life then you live in a prison... Somebody else controls the story. - S. Rushdie
When it's third and ten, you can take the milk drinkers and I'll take the whiskey drinkers every time. -Max McGee
“I really thought you had to run the football to control the game,” Erhardt once said. “You had to throw the football to score but had to run the football to win.” - Ron Erhardt
comscore ratings: October: Fargo DMA
comscore is cable & satellite only via actual boxes monitering (Neilsen is diaries/select boxes 1 time a quarter)
Oct 3 NDSU football 18.3 rating (50,000 est audience)
Oct 4 Carson Wentz Sunday Night Football 20.5 (57,000)
Oct 4 Vikings football 25.4 (80,000)
Very good number for NDSU, last few years regular season NDSU games are 14-16 ratings, playoffs/sdsu/uni games hit 18-20 ratings.
NDSU TO FBS. HAVEN'T WE WON ENOUGH?
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17X National Champions: 65, 68, 69, 83, 85, 86, 88, 90, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 21
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