Mmm...Football

Oh god, oh god, oh god!

It's coming!!

I am a nerd - and I love football. In particular Viking football. (THUS THE PURPLE FOOTBALL.GIF - YOU HEATHENS!)

As a Vikings fan - and loyally so - it's hard to get too excited. Real Viking fans - the die hard ones- are also Norweigien. Therefore our ability to remain positive is genetically impossible. And yet we try.

We've been out and out robbed, choked harder than a kid who inhaled a jolly rancher, and sometimes (tho I will never admit it) been out played. I still nurse the memories of the 1998 season. I still have hope.

Even with Randy Moss gone, I find myself hopeful. Sure he's great. But he's a thug - and probably better suited to the thug atmosphere of Oakland.

I like Mike Tice. I do. After years of watching Denny Green's blank stare, I still welcome a coach who will actually talk to his players on the sidelines and "coach" even if he is a ticket skelping whore.

I like Nate Burleson. I am not crazy about Bennet - Mo Williams made me do the happy dance on more tha one occasion, but since it's Bennets last contract year we will to start him. Our lovely pot-head should be shipped to Oakland or Miami. Perhaps the most welcome and heart-warming news to me is that Jim Kleinsasser will back. He was seriously missed last year!

Our defense last year was ranked a whopping 28th. We haven't had a decent defense in years! I am hopeful for the changes that have been brought in the off-season. I have no confidence in our linebackers until proven otherwise.

And yet there is hope. There is always hope. Sure we'll try to be honest to Scandanavian roots and pretend like nothing matters, but it does.

August 12th vs. Kansas City.



I am creaming my shorts already.