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Speaker 1: Welcome to Ranking the Purple, a brand new show by

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Speaker 1: the Vikings Entertainment Network where we are going to attempt

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Speaker 1: to rank anything and everything Minnesota Vikings related. I'm your host,

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Speaker 1: Siaminson and I am joined in this first ever edition,

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Speaker 1: a playoff edition of Ranking the Purple by a couple

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Speaker 1: for this project. You know them from All Things caf

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Speaker 1: and I know them as two of my favorite I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna say, Viking opinionists, Is that a word? Can I

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Speaker 1: go with a opinionist? Ladies and gentlemen, Eric Nordquist, Paul

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Speaker 1: Meet Sauce Lambert, Thank you guys for doing the show.

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Speaker 1: Of course, I'm the wrong guy to ask if that's

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Speaker 1: a word, so Nordos might kind of go to guy

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Speaker 1: if a word? If that's if a word is a word? No,

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Speaker 1: I love this idea. SI, I'm not gonna sure. I

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Speaker 1: can't be sure that what you have said is completely

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Speaker 1: within the bounds of the English language, but it doesn't matter.

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Speaker 1: We're here to talk about our favorite football team, the

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Speaker 1: ups and downs, ins and outs of it. As the

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Speaker 1: playoffs lum ahead, so I'm happy to do it. I

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Speaker 1: love you guys as Sean Saturday. We've talked about that

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Speaker 1: Saturday's with Sauce. But the moment I knew you guys

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Speaker 1: would be perfect for a first episode was after the

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill. And let's be real. We could do an

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Speaker 1: episode about the best moments from this season, of course,

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Speaker 1: but we're gonna do the playoffs. But we could do

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Speaker 1: a whole show about just the moments in this season.

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Speaker 1: But one of those moments, the Buffalo win. I heard

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Speaker 1: you guys debating Justin Jefferson's catch and where it ranked

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Speaker 1: all time, and I knew you would fit in perfectly

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Speaker 1: because to me, none of us are analytical wonks. We

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Speaker 1: important to us. No, I'd agree with that, and beyond

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Speaker 1: that argument, the argument was whether that win was the

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Speaker 1: didn't change course on it? Because I explained, just common

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Speaker 1: sense just in lodging dictations. Entire thing that the Minneapolist

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Speaker 1: We're going to win. All we need is a field goal.

429
00:24:05,640 --> 00:24:08,520
Speaker 1: We're to win the Super Bowl. Dude. When he go

430
00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:11,440
Speaker 1: to the Super Bowl, sorry, when he completed that first

431
00:24:11,520 --> 00:24:15,639
Speaker 1: pass to Sydney Rice, I for the first time in

432
00:24:15,840 --> 00:24:18,639
Speaker 1: my head yeah, I thought, it's the first time I

433
00:24:18,720 --> 00:24:21,399
Speaker 1: let it. We are going And then when they panned

434
00:24:21,560 --> 00:24:24,720
Speaker 1: over to Ryan like I said that, but I'm still

435
00:24:24,800 --> 00:24:28,840
Speaker 1: like and then when they panned over to Ryan Longwell

436
00:24:29,119 --> 00:24:32,440
Speaker 1: and he was just just the look he just had

437
00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:35,840
Speaker 1: this like, don't worry about it. I'm good at kicking

438
00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:39,400
Speaker 1: field goals. I'm gonna thump this thing like You're right,

439
00:24:39,880 --> 00:24:43,200
Speaker 1: you bought in. That was the killer, was the moment

440
00:24:43,359 --> 00:24:46,159
Speaker 1: that you especially with how that game transpired, where it

441
00:24:46,320 --> 00:24:48,399
Speaker 1: just it felt so out of control and all of

442
00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:54,720
Speaker 1: a sudden, here you go. Here it is. I can't

443
00:24:54,720 --> 00:24:57,359
Speaker 1: add anything to it because now now I'm getting annoyed.

444
00:24:57,560 --> 00:25:02,119
Speaker 1: And yes I didn't say it from an unforgettable moment standpoint.

445
00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:05,639
Speaker 1: You know, it's these are like snowflakes now where the

446
00:25:05,760 --> 00:25:09,280
Speaker 1: fatalism is coming into my heart as a Vikings fan.

447
00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:12,399
Speaker 1: And you mentioned it as these years stack on years,

448
00:25:12,800 --> 00:25:16,480
Speaker 1: and you appreciate how rare these opportunities are. We'll get to,

449
00:25:16,680 --> 00:25:19,680
Speaker 1: you know again, twenty seventeen with the miracle into the

450
00:25:19,760 --> 00:25:24,120
Speaker 1: Philly disaster, and then ninety eight and o nine when

451
00:25:24,240 --> 00:25:26,560
Speaker 1: when they had that twelve men on the field penalty.

452
00:25:26,680 --> 00:25:29,840
Speaker 1: I mean, I just I fell over. It feels like

453
00:25:30,320 --> 00:25:34,680
Speaker 1: and mentally and potentially physically at twenty people in my

454
00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:38,080
Speaker 1: house down in Prior Lake at the time. And when

455
00:25:38,160 --> 00:25:40,560
Speaker 1: you get that, when they get that ball, it's over

456
00:25:40,920 --> 00:25:43,560
Speaker 1: like that, there was nothing. And even to the point

457
00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:47,040
Speaker 1: where I'm sitting there like this, I'm someone in shock

458
00:25:47,119 --> 00:25:50,639
Speaker 1: in real time as far starts to far side of

459
00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:54,080
Speaker 1: the field scramble up and it's just like, well, what

460
00:25:54,240 --> 00:25:56,679
Speaker 1: on earth are you doing? Point okay, just get out

461
00:25:56,680 --> 00:25:58,640
Speaker 1: of bounds, Just get out of bounds. And then it's

462
00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:02,720
Speaker 1: the it's the cock and fire situation. And as soon

463
00:26:02,760 --> 00:26:05,320
Speaker 1: as that happened, I'm just I'm looking to the left

464
00:26:05,359 --> 00:26:07,600
Speaker 1: side of the TV screen to find the New Orleans

465
00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:10,560
Speaker 1: Saints player that's gonna pick that thing off. It just

466
00:26:11,359 --> 00:26:14,520
Speaker 1: just moments like that cut me to the core about

467
00:26:14,600 --> 00:26:17,880
Speaker 1: how close it was. And you know, in some ways

468
00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:20,960
Speaker 1: even more so as shock wears off and time goes on,

469
00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:22,720
Speaker 1: you just look back and you got the chance to

470
00:26:22,760 --> 00:26:25,080
Speaker 1: watch that Super Bowl and you saw how dead those

471
00:26:25,119 --> 00:26:28,040
Speaker 1: Colts were, and you knew that that matchup was beautiful

472
00:26:28,119 --> 00:26:29,760
Speaker 1: for us, and you knew that Adrian was going to

473
00:26:29,840 --> 00:26:32,679
Speaker 1: run all over them, and the way that they manhandled

474
00:26:32,720 --> 00:26:35,600
Speaker 1: those Colts and you know, brilliant move on sidekick out

475
00:26:35,600 --> 00:26:38,639
Speaker 1: a halftime and all that, and Hank Basket screwed that

476
00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:40,760
Speaker 1: up and he's well he's messed up a few other

477
00:26:40,840 --> 00:26:43,960
Speaker 1: things after that too. But that's a different conversation altogether.

478
00:26:44,520 --> 00:26:48,679
Speaker 1: But just the way just how much that cuts, uh,

479
00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:52,320
Speaker 1: it makes that certainly one of the unforgettable moments. They

480
00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:54,280
Speaker 1: were basically, what are we three or four into this

481
00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:56,439
Speaker 1: thing now? I mean we even got to rank them,

482
00:26:56,480 --> 00:27:01,399
Speaker 1: We're almost done. Yeah, it's we were hitting the ones

483
00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:05,280
Speaker 1: that feel the best and hurt the most early and often.

484
00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:09,400
Speaker 1: It that about Joe Webb in twenty twelve. Huh yeah,

485
00:27:10,040 --> 00:27:14,919
Speaker 1: I wash. Can we can we technically qualify Adrian's performance

486
00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:17,760
Speaker 1: in Week seventeen against the Packers in a must win game?

487
00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:20,439
Speaker 1: Could that technic like if we could include that as

488
00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:24,840
Speaker 1: a technical playoff game? Yeah? That was a winning end.

489
00:27:25,160 --> 00:27:27,399
Speaker 1: I would say that the four games leading up to

490
00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:29,879
Speaker 1: that where you needed to win all four. Yeah, and

491
00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:33,720
Speaker 1: Adrian in the midst of that that MVP campaign, Yeah,

492
00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:36,879
Speaker 1: he and he would be again now twenty twelve, the

493
00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:40,440
Speaker 1: last time a non QB got the NFL MVP Award

494
00:27:41,080 --> 00:27:44,200
Speaker 1: comes so close to Dickerson's record. You find out that

495
00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:47,760
Speaker 1: like half of Christian Ponder's body is some shade of

496
00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:51,479
Speaker 1: purple like his jersey, and then Joe Webb's bounced passing

497
00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:54,600
Speaker 1: it to Jenkins inside of twenty and it's like, this

498
00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:57,320
Speaker 1: game's over. No, we don't, we don't got a shot.

499
00:27:57,440 --> 00:28:02,239
Speaker 1: And there have been more games like that, unfortunately than

500
00:28:02,359 --> 00:28:05,080
Speaker 1: games that come down to the wire. But and that's

501
00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:06,960
Speaker 1: why maybe there's so much hope in this type of

502
00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:09,840
Speaker 1: conversation in twenty twenty two is different because we've been

503
00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:12,080
Speaker 1: we've been down to the wire in so many of

504
00:28:12,119 --> 00:28:14,120
Speaker 1: these games and it's ended up going the right way,

505
00:28:14,800 --> 00:28:17,199
Speaker 1: which kind of again, as we talk about ninety eight

506
00:28:17,280 --> 00:28:19,359
Speaker 1: oh nine and some of these spots, like it's almost

507
00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:21,480
Speaker 1: making us uncomfortable right now. We don't know how to

508
00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:26,080
Speaker 1: handle being clutched. It's very weird. I remember when ap

509
00:28:26,680 --> 00:28:29,280
Speaker 1: in that week seventeen going into that game. I remember

510
00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:31,480
Speaker 1: them having so little time left on the clock and

511
00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:35,600
Speaker 1: being at midfield. And in the modern NFL, I think

512
00:28:35,680 --> 00:28:39,120
Speaker 1: the percentage that a coach throws the ball in that

513
00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:42,560
Speaker 1: situation was I don't know, one hundred and seventy percent

514
00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:45,680
Speaker 1: of the time. And they handed it off to the

515
00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:48,800
Speaker 1: guy that everybody and he runs at forty yards down

516
00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:52,160
Speaker 1: and do you remember the press comp or the on

517
00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:56,880
Speaker 1: field interview and afterwards with him and they're like, You're like,

518
00:28:56,960 --> 00:28:59,000
Speaker 1: he came up eight yard show. He's like, hey, what

519
00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:01,480
Speaker 1: he couldn't even believe that he did all that and

520
00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:05,200
Speaker 1: couldn't get the record it was. That was not playoffs,

521
00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:08,160
Speaker 1: but that was a truly great moment. I've got I've

522
00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:09,920
Speaker 1: got a positive one for you, and I want to

523
00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:14,040
Speaker 1: see if it even clicks in your brain, because as

524
00:29:14,120 --> 00:29:18,120
Speaker 1: I was putting this show together, I had this memory

525
00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:20,920
Speaker 1: from childhood that I thought about a lot over the

526
00:29:21,040 --> 00:29:24,960
Speaker 1: years but was just too dumb to research. And I

527
00:29:25,120 --> 00:29:27,520
Speaker 1: kind of convinced myself no, if that would have happened,

528
00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:30,160
Speaker 1: we would talk about it all the time. Clearly it

529
00:29:30,280 --> 00:29:34,240
Speaker 1: was a regular season game. Do you remember the nineteen

530
00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:40,160
Speaker 1: ninety seven miracle win against the Giants in the playoffs? Absolutely?

531
00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:44,920
Speaker 1: Kind of Brad Brad Johnson, I believe is a QB

532
00:29:45,040 --> 00:29:48,160
Speaker 1: that year and Randall Cunningham is on the roster and

533
00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:51,320
Speaker 1: he comes in for a couple of games, but he's

534
00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:55,200
Speaker 1: starting a playoff game against the Giants. I believe in

535
00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:59,680
Speaker 1: New York and it was yeah, yeah, it's ugly, like

536
00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:02,560
Speaker 1: he fumbles it like four times, and in the third

537
00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:06,960
Speaker 1: quarter we're down nineteen to three, and the only way

538
00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:10,360
Speaker 1: we get back into it is the Giants fumble, and

539
00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:13,000
Speaker 1: they fumble and we recover it so close to the

540
00:30:13,120 --> 00:30:15,320
Speaker 1: goal line that all we have to do is give

541
00:30:15,360 --> 00:30:19,800
Speaker 1: it to Leroy Horde and he gets in. But even still,

542
00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:23,880
Speaker 1: it's twenty two thirteen with four and a half minutes

543
00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:27,840
Speaker 1: to play third and four. Vikings run the ball, don't

544
00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:33,520
Speaker 1: get it, and in a move that would dramatically offend

545
00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:38,920
Speaker 1: all modern today football minds, we punt it down nine

546
00:30:39,560 --> 00:30:41,640
Speaker 1: with four and a half to play, but they get

547
00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:44,720
Speaker 1: a three and out and then here comes Randall Cunningham

548
00:30:45,080 --> 00:30:46,960
Speaker 1: down the field, hits Jake read On. What was it

549
00:30:47,080 --> 00:30:49,800
Speaker 1: nor to like a forty yard touchdown? It was a

550
00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:52,160
Speaker 1: it was a thirty yard score if I remember right, yeah,

551
00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:59,040
Speaker 1: and then side kick on side yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah.

552
00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:02,280
Speaker 1: Chris As gets it and then it was like it's

553
00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:04,080
Speaker 1: kind of like the Sydney Rice thing. There's one of

554
00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:06,320
Speaker 1: those similar moments. They get the on said kick, but

555
00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:10,840
Speaker 1: then Cunningham hits Carter and all of a sudden We're

556
00:31:10,960 --> 00:31:12,880
Speaker 1: in field goal range and they march it all the

557
00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:15,080
Speaker 1: way down for a really close field goal and they

558
00:31:15,120 --> 00:31:17,760
Speaker 1: went a crazy But we never talked about that game.

559
00:31:17,840 --> 00:31:21,880
Speaker 1: It was incredible. Yeah, the final drive is actually it's

560
00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:24,800
Speaker 1: a little reminiscent of the final drive in twenty fifteen

561
00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:27,640
Speaker 1: against the Seahawks at the College Stadium. The only difference

562
00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:30,760
Speaker 1: is that Eddie Murray made the kick. You had the

563
00:31:30,920 --> 00:31:34,760
Speaker 1: p guy flag that I think Jake Reid got somebody.

564
00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:38,360
Speaker 1: There was a pass interference penalty. It was Robert Smith

565
00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:42,000
Speaker 1: with his sixteen yard dagger run with like forty seconds left.

566
00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:46,760
Speaker 1: Eddie Murray obviously kicks him through to the next round. No,

567
00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:50,320
Speaker 1: but that again, this is and that's one of the

568
00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:55,160
Speaker 1: weird line and Vikings fans can remember this. As I

569
00:31:55,320 --> 00:31:58,840
Speaker 1: joked about the nineties games, first round eggit's in the

570
00:31:58,920 --> 00:32:02,920
Speaker 1: playoffs under Denny Green. My point was, though, is the

571
00:32:03,360 --> 00:32:06,080
Speaker 1: we were three and three in home playoff games in

572
00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:10,480
Speaker 1: the nineties. The Dome was not always the massive home

573
00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:14,240
Speaker 1: field advantage that really US Bank Stadium has been, and

574
00:32:14,440 --> 00:32:17,600
Speaker 1: the Dome was post Randy Moss. I mean, that's almost

575
00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:20,240
Speaker 1: like a line that you can put in this franchise's

576
00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:24,000
Speaker 1: history is pre Randy and post Randy because you know,

577
00:32:24,160 --> 00:32:28,640
Speaker 1: from a sellouts perspective, merchandise, eyeballs on a general interest

578
00:32:28,840 --> 00:32:31,959
Speaker 1: love and obsession and fandom with this team blew up

579
00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:34,320
Speaker 1: at ninety eight, but you had one of the great

580
00:32:34,360 --> 00:32:38,200
Speaker 1: playoff moments in Viking's history take place just a year prior,

581
00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:41,200
Speaker 1: where there we had no business losing that game, And

582
00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:44,360
Speaker 1: that was always the struggle with these teams in the nineties.

583
00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:47,280
Speaker 1: Is all that talent, but there were just little little

584
00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:50,160
Speaker 1: missing pieces here and there that led to this team's

585
00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:54,200
Speaker 1: demise in many ways many seasons. But for them to

586
00:32:54,320 --> 00:32:59,640
Speaker 1: overcome that was absolutely incredible. Now, again, as has taken

587
00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:03,000
Speaker 1: place in Viking's history, you have the highs and then

588
00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:04,840
Speaker 1: you get your butts kicked in next week, which the

589
00:33:04,960 --> 00:33:10,920
Speaker 1: Vikings did, right, I believe it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and

590
00:33:11,120 --> 00:33:13,560
Speaker 1: so and so. But though, but a moment like that,

591
00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:17,600
Speaker 1: I don't remember it as vividly as I do the

592
00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:21,440
Speaker 1: loss to the Falcons and ninety eight certainly, but I

593
00:33:21,560 --> 00:33:24,400
Speaker 1: do remember just losing my mind in that game. What

594
00:33:24,560 --> 00:33:27,120
Speaker 1: am I watching? How the hell is this happening? And

595
00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:29,680
Speaker 1: it did? And so that, yeah, that was that was

596
00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:33,720
Speaker 1: an amazing moment. No, doubt playoff football is the absolute best.

597
00:33:33,840 --> 00:33:35,840
Speaker 1: I was just thinking about you know you have on

598
00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:38,800
Speaker 1: your list. The Kyle Rudolph catch was incredible, Yodo and

599
00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:41,000
Speaker 1: I went nuts for that, like I think we I

600
00:33:41,080 --> 00:33:43,160
Speaker 1: think maybe that was the last time we hugged, Like

601
00:33:43,640 --> 00:33:45,680
Speaker 1: that's how into what we got for that, And of

602
00:33:45,720 --> 00:33:48,000
Speaker 1: course we know how that ended. But like as you

603
00:33:48,120 --> 00:33:50,000
Speaker 1: and I were talking side, I'm not trying to change

604
00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:52,680
Speaker 1: the subject, but like that kind of Rudolph catch, the

605
00:33:52,960 --> 00:33:58,280
Speaker 1: world changed, like thirty days later, Like you forget that

606
00:33:58,440 --> 00:34:03,360
Speaker 1: that was in the year twel twenty because a year later, ever,

607
00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:07,960
Speaker 1: a year month, forty five days later, everything changed. Like

608
00:34:08,560 --> 00:34:11,680
Speaker 1: that was such a cool moment, like the Saints rivalry.

609
00:34:11,719 --> 00:34:14,160
Speaker 1: Of course with the twenty seventeen bit. Three years later,

610
00:34:14,200 --> 00:34:16,799
Speaker 1: we play and we go down there, nobody expects us

611
00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:18,680
Speaker 1: to win and you say what you want about the

612
00:34:18,760 --> 00:34:22,040
Speaker 1: vox and PA's going, no, we're gonna win, and you're like, well, yeah,

613
00:34:22,080 --> 00:34:23,880
Speaker 1: but you have to say that, and he's like, no, no, no, no,

614
00:34:24,120 --> 00:34:27,440
Speaker 1: they are going to win. And the course the throw

615
00:34:28,040 --> 00:34:30,480
Speaker 1: from Kirk Cousins, which I think a lot of people

616
00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:34,160
Speaker 1: have been on thank you with him throw to Adam

617
00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:38,359
Speaker 1: feeling man maybe the one of the best, like non

618
00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:43,480
Speaker 1: touchdown throws in Vikings history. It was you couldn't hand

619
00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:46,600
Speaker 1: it to him in a better in a better situation.

620
00:34:46,680 --> 00:34:50,239
Speaker 1: It was incredible. That game in itself was I mean order,

621
00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:53,719
Speaker 1: and I went ballistic after that Kyle Rudolph touchdown push

622
00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:56,480
Speaker 1: off or not, who cares? We earned that. Yeah, I'm

623
00:34:56,520 --> 00:34:58,800
Speaker 1: glad you brought that up because that that throw to

624
00:34:58,840 --> 00:35:02,640
Speaker 1: Adam Feeling by the way, covering him getting smoked by

625
00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:06,280
Speaker 1: Adam Thieland was Patrick Robinson who a few years earlier

626
00:35:06,560 --> 00:35:08,960
Speaker 1: was the cornerback that had a I think a fifty

627
00:35:09,080 --> 00:35:13,040
Speaker 1: yard pick six in that Philly game off a case Keenum.

628
00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:17,480
Speaker 1: And so the six degrees of Vikings football, we finally

629
00:35:17,640 --> 00:35:20,400
Speaker 1: got one back on Patrick, I guess, although you know

630
00:35:20,520 --> 00:35:23,600
Speaker 1: one was for maybe slightly higher stakes, but that moment

631
00:35:23,719 --> 00:35:26,479
Speaker 1: was cool and Zimmer now, you know, you think about

632
00:35:26,480 --> 00:35:29,239
Speaker 1: the Zimmer area and the defenses and working with what

633
00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:33,960
Speaker 1: he had him rushing the Neil Hunter and Everson Griffin

634
00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:37,279
Speaker 1: up the middle from the d tackles spots was a

635
00:35:37,360 --> 00:35:40,120
Speaker 1: complete game changer as well. Four staple in the fourth

636
00:35:40,239 --> 00:35:44,319
Speaker 1: quarter that I think Jalen Holmes, former Viking recovered that. Yes,

637
00:35:45,080 --> 00:35:49,280
Speaker 1: so that game was amazing, but then good times, bad times.

638
00:35:49,640 --> 00:35:51,759
Speaker 1: We go to San Francisco and I think we got

639
00:35:51,880 --> 00:35:54,520
Speaker 1: a touchdown early in that one, and then suddenly, like

640
00:35:54,680 --> 00:35:59,120
Speaker 1: Marcus Sherrill's never fumbles, he muffs that punt and adjusted.

641
00:35:59,120 --> 00:36:01,600
Speaker 1: It went down from there and Jimmy g had a

642
00:36:01,719 --> 00:36:03,640
Speaker 1: chance to go to the Super Bowl and all he

643
00:36:03,719 --> 00:36:06,840
Speaker 1: had to do was hit Emmanuel Sanders wide open on

644
00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:11,240
Speaker 1: a deep post. Couldn't hit him, and Mahomes host hoisted

645
00:36:11,280 --> 00:36:14,360
Speaker 1: his first super Bowl win. But yeah, from the highs

646
00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:16,680
Speaker 1: of being in the Bayou to the battering in the

647
00:36:16,760 --> 00:36:21,040
Speaker 1: bay just another postseason in Minnesota Viking's history. You could

648
00:36:21,080 --> 00:36:24,200
Speaker 1: almost rank memories just from that game with everything you

649
00:36:24,239 --> 00:36:28,600
Speaker 1: guys listed, the Cousins throw, the Rudolph catch, the Zimmer strategy,

650
00:36:28,600 --> 00:36:32,879
Speaker 1: all that stuff. A friend of mine, a diehard Saints fan,

651
00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:35,360
Speaker 1: one of the things I love about that win, and

652
00:36:35,480 --> 00:36:38,240
Speaker 1: this is so petty, it's so gross and so petty,

653
00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:43,359
Speaker 1: but that he believes the Minnesota miracle doesn't bother him.

654
00:36:43,640 --> 00:36:46,520
Speaker 1: Because the Minnesota miracle, he didn't believe that that was

655
00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:48,680
Speaker 1: a very good Saints team. He didn't believe they were

656
00:36:48,760 --> 00:36:51,080
Speaker 1: going the distance. There are a lot of Saints fans

657
00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:53,400
Speaker 1: who believed that team that lost to us in that

658
00:36:53,560 --> 00:36:56,200
Speaker 1: opening round was one of the better teams they had

659
00:36:56,280 --> 00:36:59,520
Speaker 1: and Drew Brees's run and I take such a petty

660
00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:04,320
Speaker 1: sat faction in winning nay because of that. That's that

661
00:37:04,719 --> 00:37:07,759
Speaker 1: that one will maybe gross its way up to the

662
00:37:07,880 --> 00:37:10,279
Speaker 1: list when we start ranking all these at the very end.

663
00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:12,680
Speaker 1: For me, well how about that too. I mean, you

664
00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:15,040
Speaker 1: think about the Saints, and you know Drew Brees by

665
00:37:15,080 --> 00:37:18,200
Speaker 1: all accounts, one of the great QB's in NFL history,

666
00:37:18,280 --> 00:37:20,560
Speaker 1: there's no doubt. So a lot of my hatred goes

667
00:37:20,680 --> 00:37:24,200
Speaker 1: to the Jonathan Vilma's of the world, the Greg Williams,

668
00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:27,560
Speaker 1: Sean Payton's, just thinking back to bounty Gate and oh nine,

669
00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:30,000
Speaker 1: to my general frustration with how that game took place.

670
00:37:30,440 --> 00:37:33,279
Speaker 1: But think about this, twenty seventeen, we smack them with

671
00:37:33,360 --> 00:37:37,120
Speaker 1: the miracle. Twenty eighteen, they get back into the NFC

672
00:37:37,280 --> 00:37:41,200
Speaker 1: title game and it's the nickel I think, was it

673
00:37:41,320 --> 00:37:45,520
Speaker 1: Tommy Lee Lewis the obvious PI call? They take that out,

674
00:37:45,560 --> 00:37:47,400
Speaker 1: they go to ot rams when they go to the

675
00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:50,440
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, loose to the Patriots. But then twenty nineteen,

676
00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:54,239
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen is they're winding out the clock on Drew

677
00:37:54,320 --> 00:37:57,840
Speaker 1: Brees's career. They feel that and this this was the

678
00:37:58,239 --> 00:38:00,839
Speaker 1: this was the team right there, and they a fantastic

679
00:38:00,920 --> 00:38:04,040
Speaker 1: and their defense has been pretty good the last couple

680
00:38:04,080 --> 00:38:06,840
Speaker 1: of years, and their long time decordinator Dennis Allen's now

681
00:38:06,880 --> 00:38:11,400
Speaker 1: their coach post Payton. But that defense was so good

682
00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:15,560
Speaker 1: with Cam Jordan and I mean just an older and

683
00:38:15,719 --> 00:38:19,400
Speaker 1: smarter Marshawn Lattimore. And of course I don't remember if

684
00:38:19,440 --> 00:38:22,120
Speaker 1: it was eighteen or nineteen, but Michael Thomas set that

685
00:38:22,239 --> 00:38:26,040
Speaker 1: receiving yards in a reception record. I mean, so that

686
00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:29,200
Speaker 1: team had it all and we smacked him in the

687
00:38:29,239 --> 00:38:31,800
Speaker 1: face again. Don't give us those fish lips and that

688
00:38:31,920 --> 00:38:35,200
Speaker 1: fakes goal, chant Peyton, because you're gonna lose. Can we

689
00:38:35,320 --> 00:38:39,160
Speaker 1: stick in the Saints? Because there's another secret moment that

690
00:38:39,360 --> 00:38:43,440
Speaker 1: is buried under devastation. There's a forty one donut Randy

691
00:38:43,520 --> 00:38:47,279
Speaker 1: Moss squirts the water bottle. The week before is a

692
00:38:47,360 --> 00:38:52,040
Speaker 1: Saints game, and that game, that was another game. I

693
00:38:52,200 --> 00:38:55,880
Speaker 1: was lucky to be at the energy in that building

694
00:38:56,000 --> 00:39:03,200
Speaker 1: that was such a slaughtering. And there's three moments too,

695
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:05,880
Speaker 1: fifty three and a sixty eight yards and they were

696
00:39:05,880 --> 00:39:08,120
Speaker 1: those They were though throw the screen, he catches it,

697
00:39:08,200 --> 00:39:11,160
Speaker 1: and hey, I'm the fastest man you've ever seen. They

698
00:39:11,200 --> 00:39:15,759
Speaker 1: were like beautiful touchdowns. And then you have Robert Tate.

699
00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:19,719
Speaker 1: Do you guys remember Robert Tate? Oh of course, yeah, yeah,

700
00:39:20,080 --> 00:39:24,359
Speaker 1: six round out of Cincinnati wide receiver. He's where's number

701
00:39:24,400 --> 00:39:26,800
Speaker 1: eighty three his first two years in the league. We

702
00:39:26,960 --> 00:39:30,640
Speaker 1: make him a cornerback. The Saints talked serious trash about

703
00:39:30,719 --> 00:39:34,760
Speaker 1: that Robert Tate, I believe. I mean it was a blowout,

704
00:39:34,840 --> 00:39:37,600
Speaker 1: but he iced to the end of that game with

705
00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:42,080
Speaker 1: an interception, which is a great moment. But you remember

706
00:39:42,200 --> 00:39:46,920
Speaker 1: John Randall, Right, the sash, the crawl around on all fours,

707
00:39:47,080 --> 00:39:51,200
Speaker 1: the lifting the leg, Oh my gosh, that is lifting

708
00:39:51,239 --> 00:39:53,400
Speaker 1: the can I make lifting the leg on a quarterback?

709
00:39:53,680 --> 00:39:56,080
Speaker 1: The top memory for me that is that is the

710
00:39:56,280 --> 00:40:00,320
Speaker 1: funniest thing. John Randall is the absolute man and I

711
00:40:00,520 --> 00:40:05,399
Speaker 1: love that he's still like in such a funny way

712
00:40:05,840 --> 00:40:10,239
Speaker 1: on Packer Week, like his social media. He is the funniest,

713
00:40:10,480 --> 00:40:13,680
Speaker 1: most aggressive. I love everything about it. And that moment

714
00:40:13,800 --> 00:40:16,200
Speaker 1: was he's our paid manny, if you think about it,

715
00:40:16,600 --> 00:40:19,279
Speaker 1: I mean, he's our paid manny. He's got a great personality.

716
00:40:19,760 --> 00:40:22,320
Speaker 1: He's super nice. He I mean not that Peyton Manning

717
00:40:22,360 --> 00:40:24,839
Speaker 1: still lives in Indie, but like he still lives here.

718
00:40:25,400 --> 00:40:27,520
Speaker 1: John Randall could live anywhere in the world and he

719
00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:31,279
Speaker 1: still lives here. And he's as die hard about it

720
00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:33,759
Speaker 1: as the three of us are. And he's just he's

721
00:40:33,800 --> 00:40:36,280
Speaker 1: such a great pillar for this team and the franchise

722
00:40:36,360 --> 00:40:38,120
Speaker 1: and what he does with the Legends group and all that.

723
00:40:38,280 --> 00:40:41,640
Speaker 1: But any I mean John, I can do a whole

724
00:40:42,040 --> 00:40:44,520
Speaker 1: bit on I mean John Randall's bit when he I mean,

725
00:40:44,800 --> 00:40:46,320
Speaker 1: you go back to like this has anything to do

726
00:40:46,400 --> 00:40:48,239
Speaker 1: with the Vikes. But I remember he's on the Seahawks

727
00:40:48,560 --> 00:40:51,399
Speaker 1: and Matt Hasselbeck in the playoffs said we're taking the ball,

728
00:40:51,440 --> 00:40:54,200
Speaker 1: We're gonna score, and then he throws him an exception.

729
00:40:54,600 --> 00:40:58,000
Speaker 1: Like people forget that was I think Randalls was that

730
00:40:58,239 --> 00:41:01,719
Speaker 1: Randall's first year on the Seahawks. But I mean, that's

731
00:41:01,719 --> 00:41:04,239
Speaker 1: a complete disaster in Seahawks. I mean, think of the

732
00:41:04,320 --> 00:41:07,200
Speaker 1: bits the Seahawks fans could do. They were gonna win

733
00:41:07,239 --> 00:41:09,200
Speaker 1: two Super Bowls, but they threw the ball at the one.

734
00:41:09,320 --> 00:41:13,359
Speaker 1: But I digress. Oh yeah, now, and you know what's

735
00:41:13,360 --> 00:41:15,920
Speaker 1: in last thing from two thousand and forty one, don't it.

736
00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:19,360
Speaker 1: I think actually, if we should do most Forgettable playoff memories,

737
00:41:19,400 --> 00:41:21,399
Speaker 1: that would be one of them. For my last thing

738
00:41:21,840 --> 00:41:26,720
Speaker 1: with the Saints. If you ever wondered were they getting

739
00:41:27,040 --> 00:41:30,400
Speaker 1: the Vikings plays in their headsets? Did the Giants cheat

740
00:41:30,920 --> 00:41:34,279
Speaker 1: with carry Collins and company? Sean Payton, a member of

741
00:41:34,320 --> 00:41:37,319
Speaker 1: the Giants staff. I just want you to think about that. Oh,

742
00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:41,359
Speaker 1: I didn't know. I didn't know. I'm throwing it out there.

743
00:41:41,400 --> 00:41:43,920
Speaker 1: I'm not accusing him of anything, but whether it was

744
00:41:44,040 --> 00:41:46,040
Speaker 1: Valley Gate No. Nine and the fact that he was

745
00:41:46,080 --> 00:41:49,239
Speaker 1: on the Giant staff in two thousand, I personally am

746
00:41:49,360 --> 00:41:52,480
Speaker 1: sensing a trend, and that's why I don't care much

747
00:41:52,520 --> 00:41:57,160
Speaker 1: for that man. No, he's gonna be on YouTube. You

748
00:41:57,239 --> 00:42:00,360
Speaker 1: would be. You just you need your own chance and

749
00:42:00,480 --> 00:42:04,400
Speaker 1: just to heave out some perfectly anecdotal evidence and let

750
00:42:04,480 --> 00:42:07,360
Speaker 1: the people decide. I love it. Yeah, you should do

751
00:42:07,640 --> 00:42:14,440
Speaker 1: Vikings conspiracy theories. Yeah, brought to you by Reynolds rat Yeah,

752
00:42:14,560 --> 00:42:17,080
Speaker 1: get our get Randy. You and Randy could do it.

753
00:42:17,520 --> 00:42:20,800
Speaker 1: You share Vikings conspiracies and let our friend Randy share

754
00:42:21,120 --> 00:42:25,399
Speaker 1: actual conspiracies and see what you're more loony. Yeah, I'll

755
00:42:25,440 --> 00:42:30,879
Speaker 1: do Vikings bits. You'll do secret moon bases and mermaids. Perfect. Yeah. Yeah,

756
00:42:31,800 --> 00:42:34,920
Speaker 1: there's there's one other really cool moment. It's not an

757
00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:37,440
Speaker 1: on the field moment, and it's a cool moment in

758
00:42:37,680 --> 00:42:41,880
Speaker 1: the one horrible moment we haven't really spoken about speaking

759
00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:50,120
Speaker 1: of the Seahawks in that playoff game at TCF. TCF, right,

760
00:42:50,200 --> 00:42:54,880
Speaker 1: that was the name of that. Yeah, yeah, so at

761
00:42:54,920 --> 00:43:00,680
Speaker 1: that time it's TCF Bud Grant in the oldest weather

762
00:43:02,080 --> 00:43:06,800
Speaker 1: you can imagine walking out in short sleeves for the

763
00:43:06,920 --> 00:43:12,360
Speaker 1: coin toss is such. We're all so I think, insecure

764
00:43:13,239 --> 00:43:16,160
Speaker 1: about our state and so defensive about our state and

765
00:43:16,280 --> 00:43:20,400
Speaker 1: so die hard about our state. When somebody provides a

766
00:43:20,560 --> 00:43:23,600
Speaker 1: rallying point, like we talked about the Prince quote when

767
00:43:23,680 --> 00:43:25,839
Speaker 1: Prince said that about you know, it keeps the bad

768
00:43:25,920 --> 00:43:28,680
Speaker 1: guys out, We're like, you're damn right, it does. Like, yeah,

769
00:43:28,760 --> 00:43:32,360
Speaker 1: we're so so that man walking out there, I promise

770
00:43:32,480 --> 00:43:37,279
Speaker 1: there wasn't a goose bumpless arm anywhere in America for

771
00:43:37,400 --> 00:43:41,800
Speaker 1: a Viking fan when he walked out, just elderly in

772
00:43:42,040 --> 00:43:46,440
Speaker 1: short sleeves before that game. That was incredible. That was incredible.

773
00:43:46,480 --> 00:43:49,600
Speaker 1: That's maybe a I mean, non game related that may

774
00:43:49,680 --> 00:43:52,800
Speaker 1: be the top Vikings moment of all time. It's that

775
00:43:52,960 --> 00:43:56,800
Speaker 1: in drafting Randy Moss, which completely changed the route that

776
00:43:56,880 --> 00:44:00,560
Speaker 1: the franchise went. But yeah, the Bud Grant moment. Everybody's

777
00:44:00,560 --> 00:44:02,600
Speaker 1: talking about how cold it was, how it was like

778
00:44:02,760 --> 00:44:05,800
Speaker 1: Ice Bowl too. What was it like minus fifteen to

779
00:44:05,960 --> 00:44:09,360
Speaker 1: start the game, the whole bit, and there out walks

780
00:44:09,440 --> 00:44:15,880
Speaker 1: a gentleman in nothing but pants and a short sleeve shirt. Yeah,

781
00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:18,400
Speaker 1: it was. It was crazy. And the way that the

782
00:44:18,680 --> 00:44:22,160
Speaker 1: way that I've done this and from an unforgettable playoff moments,

783
00:44:22,280 --> 00:44:25,920
Speaker 1: I kind of just think about the seasons in totality,

784
00:44:25,960 --> 00:44:29,160
Speaker 1: and with twenty fifteen, you know, the the awful situation

785
00:44:29,239 --> 00:44:32,479
Speaker 1: with Adrian Peterson a year prior, he comes back, leads

786
00:44:32,520 --> 00:44:35,880
Speaker 1: the league in rushing again, and you know, love it

787
00:44:35,960 --> 00:44:38,920
Speaker 1: or hate it that everyone's moved on from the previous regime.

788
00:44:39,080 --> 00:44:42,160
Speaker 1: But twenty fifteen I think was really the first year

789
00:44:42,200 --> 00:44:44,759
Speaker 1: in which you got to see like, oh my goodness, uh,

790
00:44:44,920 --> 00:44:47,400
Speaker 1: Mike Zimmer might be onto something with this defense. And

791
00:44:47,600 --> 00:44:50,120
Speaker 1: I just thought, of course, you know, the reason that

792
00:44:50,239 --> 00:44:52,680
Speaker 1: he was hired to coach here is there was a toughness,

793
00:44:52,719 --> 00:44:55,080
Speaker 1: There was a meanness, There was a grit to him,

794
00:44:55,719 --> 00:44:59,320
Speaker 1: and I think the twenty fifteen season embodied some of

795
00:44:59,400 --> 00:45:02,040
Speaker 1: those l mints of his personality in the culture. So

796
00:45:02,520 --> 00:45:05,239
Speaker 1: coming in here, it's cold, his hell outside, you got

797
00:45:05,320 --> 00:45:07,920
Speaker 1: that that wind popping in from the west side of TCF.

798
00:45:08,040 --> 00:45:12,320
Speaker 1: I mean that thing was absolutely bones cold, and pa

799
00:45:12,600 --> 00:45:14,160
Speaker 1: where I'm up in the booth with him and he's

800
00:45:14,160 --> 00:45:17,160
Speaker 1: doing the call. He demanded that the windows stay open.

801
00:45:17,239 --> 00:45:19,080
Speaker 1: We need to hear that crowd noise, We need to

802
00:45:19,160 --> 00:45:21,600
Speaker 1: be part of this. I mean that's just that's the

803
00:45:21,760 --> 00:45:27,960
Speaker 1: Rube element of how we operate. And absolutely, and the

804
00:45:28,040 --> 00:45:31,840
Speaker 1: conditions were awful. The conditions were terrible. The game itself.

805
00:45:31,960 --> 00:45:35,120
Speaker 1: I mean, Blair Walsh was an MVP until that other

806
00:45:35,200 --> 00:45:37,799
Speaker 1: thing happened. Uh, he keeps us in it with those

807
00:45:37,880 --> 00:45:41,279
Speaker 1: field goals, and you got Captain Munnerlyn that goes for

808
00:45:41,360 --> 00:45:44,160
Speaker 1: the ball instead of trying to sack Russell Wilson, and

809
00:45:44,239 --> 00:45:46,200
Speaker 1: I think that led to the only touchdown of the game.

810
00:45:46,880 --> 00:45:49,600
Speaker 1: Whether it was may Have a Baldwin or Jermaine Curse,

811
00:45:49,680 --> 00:45:52,640
Speaker 1: I don't remember, but I mean, just all of those

812
00:45:52,800 --> 00:45:55,759
Speaker 1: moments and then you finally have that drive that I

813
00:45:55,840 --> 00:45:58,919
Speaker 1: mentioned was like that ninety seven game where you get

814
00:45:59,040 --> 00:46:02,840
Speaker 1: the clutch pass uh to Kyle Rudolf, he gets PI

815
00:46:03,000 --> 00:46:06,240
Speaker 1: on Cam Chancellor and it's just and and Teddy hadn't looked,

816
00:46:06,520 --> 00:46:08,799
Speaker 1: and God bless him. Teddy didn't. Was not the guy,

817
00:46:08,920 --> 00:46:11,120
Speaker 1: it didn't look like that day that was going to

818
00:46:11,239 --> 00:46:13,279
Speaker 1: drive us back. But he did, and he put one

819
00:46:13,400 --> 00:46:15,960
Speaker 1: freaking drive together and it was Adrian for eight or

820
00:46:16,040 --> 00:46:18,920
Speaker 1: nine yards puts it on the left hash and and

821
00:46:19,040 --> 00:46:22,520
Speaker 1: the rest is obviously history. But that game, the coldness

822
00:46:22,880 --> 00:46:26,239
Speaker 1: and and just the gravity of it into the playoffs,

823
00:46:26,800 --> 00:46:29,799
Speaker 1: the opportunity potentially that next week. I can't remember whether

824
00:46:29,880 --> 00:46:32,160
Speaker 1: it was Carolina or Arizona that we would have went

825
00:46:32,200 --> 00:46:34,279
Speaker 1: to that year. May have been Carolina, I think I

826
00:46:34,320 --> 00:46:36,239
Speaker 1: think it was going to be they won the Super Bowl,

827
00:46:36,280 --> 00:46:40,240
Speaker 1: didn't they Well, they went, they played and they lost

828
00:46:40,280 --> 00:46:43,960
Speaker 1: to Peyton. That was when everybody ripped Cam Newton for

829
00:46:44,080 --> 00:46:47,720
Speaker 1: not jumping on that fumbles. He just stood yeah, correct

830
00:46:48,239 --> 00:46:51,080
Speaker 1: and so but but it all started that day with

831
00:46:51,600 --> 00:46:55,520
Speaker 1: we're toughness, We're called we're mild Salso where Tator dot

832
00:46:55,560 --> 00:46:59,520
Speaker 1: hot dish, we're custom knit sweaters up here, and we

833
00:46:59,640 --> 00:47:02,040
Speaker 1: don't know so provincial if you're not one of us

834
00:47:02,160 --> 00:47:05,600
Speaker 1: then stay out. But when Bud Grant rolled out there

835
00:47:05,640 --> 00:47:08,719
Speaker 1: in short sleeves, it's like I am he man, hear

836
00:47:08,840 --> 00:47:12,960
Speaker 1: me roar, and it was. It was incredible. Yeah. The

837
00:47:14,040 --> 00:47:16,880
Speaker 1: the other thing about that is, you know, Teddy Bridgewater

838
00:47:17,200 --> 00:47:19,480
Speaker 1: is you know where he's at in his career now,

839
00:47:19,680 --> 00:47:22,960
Speaker 1: But that that was the moment where Teddy had developed

840
00:47:23,000 --> 00:47:25,759
Speaker 1: this reputation prior to that game of like, you know,

841
00:47:25,840 --> 00:47:28,120
Speaker 1: he might not quite be there yet where we think

842
00:47:28,200 --> 00:47:30,840
Speaker 1: he's going to get to as an overall quarterback and

843
00:47:31,200 --> 00:47:34,680
Speaker 1: a talent, but he has the thing we need, which

844
00:47:34,880 --> 00:47:38,520
Speaker 1: is money on the line. Go get the money. I mean,

845
00:47:38,600 --> 00:47:41,280
Speaker 1: he'd done it a number And so to your point, Nordo,

846
00:47:42,160 --> 00:47:44,279
Speaker 1: I think the other thing had you made that kick,

847
00:47:45,160 --> 00:47:46,759
Speaker 1: I think the other thing you're dealing with in that

848
00:47:46,840 --> 00:47:49,520
Speaker 1: moment you go, wait, do we have a do we

849
00:47:49,600 --> 00:47:52,440
Speaker 1: have a stud quarterback? And we know the rest is history,

850
00:47:52,640 --> 00:47:55,279
Speaker 1: and we all remember how well he was throwing the

851
00:47:55,360 --> 00:47:57,839
Speaker 1: ball around in that preseason and really starting to get

852
00:47:57,920 --> 00:48:01,080
Speaker 1: down the field. But that was against the Rams or

853
00:48:01,200 --> 00:48:05,880
Speaker 1: Chargers in twenty sixteen, may have been Chargers, and it

854
00:48:06,040 --> 00:48:09,440
Speaker 1: was the third preseason game he hits Kyle Rudolph on

855
00:48:09,600 --> 00:48:12,360
Speaker 1: just a missile dime over the middle. Again, it's a

856
00:48:12,400 --> 00:48:15,880
Speaker 1: preseason game for a touchdown. He hits the showers and

857
00:48:15,960 --> 00:48:20,480
Speaker 1: it's like we are onto something, guys, he's here, and

858
00:48:21,160 --> 00:48:25,879
Speaker 1: tragedy strikes in August thirtieth, maybe days later, yeah, two

859
00:48:26,000 --> 00:48:30,759
Speaker 1: days later, right, you guys are all at the fair. Yeah,

860
00:48:31,800 --> 00:48:34,440
Speaker 1: we freaked out and wasted a first round pick on

861
00:48:34,560 --> 00:48:37,719
Speaker 1: Sam Bradford and they turned the Eagles turn that into

862
00:48:37,800 --> 00:48:40,600
Speaker 1: Derek Barnett who gets a strip sack on Cave's keenom

863
00:48:40,719 --> 00:48:43,360
Speaker 1: when he was driving the game. I mean, it's just

864
00:48:43,680 --> 00:48:46,279
Speaker 1: a size. Right, you should do a podcast and just

865
00:48:46,520 --> 00:48:49,000
Speaker 1: you should be the guy who walks into a room,

866
00:48:49,560 --> 00:48:52,400
Speaker 1: farts and then walks out. That's what you're doing with

867
00:48:52,560 --> 00:48:59,720
Speaker 1: all of these awful memories. Remember this then, yes, Norto,

868
00:48:59,840 --> 00:49:03,880
Speaker 1: we all remember that it was horrible. It was horrible,

869
00:49:04,040 --> 00:49:08,839
Speaker 1: was the character Debbie Downer? Yeah, that's nor down nor

870
00:49:09,160 --> 00:49:16,439
Speaker 1: negative negative. I like it the I love this team,

871
00:49:16,520 --> 00:49:20,000
Speaker 1: but I'm so heartbroken. Say I'm so, I'm so heartbroken too.

872
00:49:20,080 --> 00:49:22,279
Speaker 1: I've got to I've got to end on. I've got

873
00:49:22,400 --> 00:49:25,640
Speaker 1: to refocus on by Grant. That is, there is nothing

874
00:49:25,760 --> 00:49:29,200
Speaker 1: more Minnesotan than the X Vike, like you would have

875
00:49:29,400 --> 00:49:32,160
Speaker 1: to have an ice house that doubled as a hot

876
00:49:32,239 --> 00:49:36,160
Speaker 1: dish restaurant, or like, I don't know, a snowmobile that

877
00:49:36,320 --> 00:49:39,680
Speaker 1: was covered moose. I don't know what more Minnesota E

878
00:49:40,320 --> 00:49:44,160
Speaker 1: Minnesota thing can exist than that Bud Grant thing. But

879
00:49:45,160 --> 00:49:49,319
Speaker 1: that's that's that's that's about as Minnesota as it gets.

880
00:49:49,440 --> 00:49:51,520
Speaker 1: What tell me, guys, I've laid him out. There's a

881
00:49:51,560 --> 00:49:55,759
Speaker 1: couple here, you know, we've got the the Cowboys ass

882
00:49:55,880 --> 00:49:59,160
Speaker 1: kicking was a fun one, you know, that was that

883
00:49:59,280 --> 00:50:01,080
Speaker 1: was that was a on when it gets lost in

884
00:50:01,160 --> 00:50:04,400
Speaker 1: the mix. I was very nervous before that game and

885
00:50:04,520 --> 00:50:06,719
Speaker 1: to see if the pants on the ground bit right

886
00:50:06,800 --> 00:50:10,120
Speaker 1: after right, that's where I was going. Ever, you remember

887
00:50:10,239 --> 00:50:12,400
Speaker 1: pants on the ground and far of doing it in

888
00:50:12,480 --> 00:50:18,399
Speaker 1: the locker room. Kevin Kevin O'Connell Yeah, otold Parcy Kevin

889
00:50:18,480 --> 00:50:22,359
Speaker 1: O'Connell's post game. If you got anybody watching, if you haven't,

890
00:50:22,600 --> 00:50:25,239
Speaker 1: if you haven't been watching his post games, go back

891
00:50:25,280 --> 00:50:27,200
Speaker 1: and watch all of them. It's like a season of

892
00:50:27,280 --> 00:50:29,960
Speaker 1: a TV show because of how crazy this year has been.

893
00:50:30,360 --> 00:50:34,640
Speaker 1: It's a great watch. But they all pale in comparison

894
00:50:35,120 --> 00:50:37,680
Speaker 1: to pants on They brought the pants on the ground

895
00:50:37,760 --> 00:50:41,960
Speaker 1: guy in You remember that? Yeah? They did? Yeah, that

896
00:50:42,239 --> 00:50:44,120
Speaker 1: was That was a fun game. Who is the who's

897
00:50:44,160 --> 00:50:47,520
Speaker 1: the cowboy linebacker? Who is real sad that we ran

898
00:50:47,640 --> 00:50:52,520
Speaker 1: the score up on him? Oh? Oh gosh. I can't

899
00:50:52,560 --> 00:50:54,479
Speaker 1: remember what his name was. But somebody had a real

900
00:50:54,719 --> 00:50:58,839
Speaker 1: problem with getting thumped in the NFL. Right right when

901
00:50:58,920 --> 00:51:02,680
Speaker 1: they threw it was time. I don't remember. No, it wasn't. No,

902
00:51:02,960 --> 00:51:05,800
Speaker 1: it wasn't Sean Lee might be too early, but no,

903
00:51:06,000 --> 00:51:07,879
Speaker 1: hold on, right when they threw it, let me look

904
00:51:07,920 --> 00:51:11,360
Speaker 1: it up. But right when they threw the pass to Tahi,

905
00:51:12,000 --> 00:51:16,120
Speaker 1: he turns to the Vikings bench as the plays going

906
00:51:16,200 --> 00:51:18,479
Speaker 1: over his head and it's like, what are you doing?

907
00:51:18,680 --> 00:51:23,360
Speaker 1: Like you're up? What did we win? Thirty eight three? Hum?

908
00:51:25,200 --> 00:51:30,400
Speaker 1: But it was a beatdown. Keith brookiee Brookie, that's absolutely.

909
00:51:32,560 --> 00:51:36,200
Speaker 1: He complained during the game, and then he complained after

910
00:51:36,320 --> 00:51:39,480
Speaker 1: the game, and even Jerry Jones because not Jerry Jones,

911
00:51:39,600 --> 00:51:43,560
Speaker 1: Jimmy Johnson on the Fox thing the Cowboys have made

912
00:51:43,640 --> 00:51:46,200
Speaker 1: him a ton of money. Said if you don't like it,

913
00:51:46,800 --> 00:51:49,520
Speaker 1: stop it, and he said it about the Cowboys or

914
00:51:49,560 --> 00:51:52,400
Speaker 1: it after that game? Sorry, go on, Well, no, I

915
00:51:52,560 --> 00:51:54,400
Speaker 1: was just I was just trying to think because they

916
00:51:54,719 --> 00:51:57,720
Speaker 1: other than oh wait, we we have the ysate, Samuel

917
00:51:57,719 --> 00:52:02,040
Speaker 1: will pick six, Brian Westbrook gets loose. I just again,

918
00:52:02,360 --> 00:52:05,160
Speaker 1: more negative than positive. As a team that was five

919
00:52:05,239 --> 00:52:07,640
Speaker 1: and eight in the playoffs the last twenty two seasons,

920
00:52:08,680 --> 00:52:10,840
Speaker 1: I think I think we've covered it all, man, I

921
00:52:10,920 --> 00:52:13,200
Speaker 1: mean we've we've lived all the highs and lows. We've

922
00:52:13,239 --> 00:52:16,279
Speaker 1: gone surfing for sure with this team over the last

923
00:52:16,320 --> 00:52:19,959
Speaker 1: couple of decades. Absolutely, here's the big question then, since

924
00:52:20,080 --> 00:52:22,920
Speaker 1: we have danced on both sides of the line, and

925
00:52:23,520 --> 00:52:28,520
Speaker 1: it's unforgettable memories, not best memories, and three guys three votes,

926
00:52:28,760 --> 00:52:31,400
Speaker 1: that's it's an easy tiebreaker situation. I think we can

927
00:52:31,480 --> 00:52:36,680
Speaker 1: all agree one two our Minnesota miracle ninety eight miss

928
00:52:36,800 --> 00:52:41,200
Speaker 1: kick situation. Sadness right, those are one two. But yeah,

929
00:52:42,160 --> 00:52:45,960
Speaker 1: I have to because we have a playoff game coming up.

930
00:52:45,960 --> 00:52:49,959
Speaker 1: Ask me in three months which one is more unforgettable

931
00:52:50,080 --> 00:52:53,640
Speaker 1: to me? I think, if you're being honest, No, I

932
00:52:53,680 --> 00:52:55,040
Speaker 1: don't know. I was gonna say, I think, if you're

933
00:52:55,040 --> 00:52:57,680
Speaker 1: being honest, the one is one. But it's not. I

934
00:52:58,000 --> 00:53:02,319
Speaker 1: take that back. The stepan big thing, I think it try.

935
00:53:02,520 --> 00:53:06,359
Speaker 1: I think it it just escapes Minnesota. I mean, it's

936
00:53:06,400 --> 00:53:09,400
Speaker 1: it's got to be considered. That is like the Franko

937
00:53:09,480 --> 00:53:12,279
Speaker 1: Harris catch. The I mean it's it's gonna be played

938
00:53:12,320 --> 00:53:15,520
Speaker 1: for one hundred years. The the Miss kick isn't gonna

939
00:53:15,520 --> 00:53:18,120
Speaker 1: be played for a hundred years, you know, out in

940
00:53:18,200 --> 00:53:21,880
Speaker 1: the NFL world. So for me one two, I'm gonna go.

941
00:53:22,800 --> 00:53:28,439
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go Miracle one, the Miss in ninety eight two. Yeah,

942
00:53:28,480 --> 00:53:30,280
Speaker 1: I'm cool with dad. I mean, you think about great

943
00:53:30,520 --> 00:53:33,959
Speaker 1: works for me, playoff history. You know, uh why check

944
00:53:34,040 --> 00:53:37,120
Speaker 1: to Dice in the Music City Miracle. You think about that.

945
00:53:37,280 --> 00:53:41,240
Speaker 1: That's the kind of conversation you're having, Um, Minneapolis Miracle

946
00:53:41,320 --> 00:53:46,280
Speaker 1: number one me in Sue falls crying at age fourteen,

947
00:53:46,520 --> 00:53:52,759
Speaker 1: that's gonna be number two. Yeah, So then do we

948
00:53:52,880 --> 00:53:56,800
Speaker 1: have to I think I'll just keep pushing and you

949
00:53:56,880 --> 00:53:59,200
Speaker 1: guys push back. So you gotta, I think the next

950
00:53:59,239 --> 00:54:06,680
Speaker 1: one because of what it means in Lambeau against a

951
00:54:06,760 --> 00:54:09,719
Speaker 1: team that was better than us that year and all

952
00:54:09,800 --> 00:54:13,560
Speaker 1: the iconic imagery and like we said, quotes that came

953
00:54:13,600 --> 00:54:16,839
Speaker 1: out of it is the Moss is the Moss Moon Game?

954
00:54:16,920 --> 00:54:19,520
Speaker 1: The beatdown? Is that number three for us? Now the

955
00:54:19,600 --> 00:54:21,520
Speaker 1: other ones that are floating around here that I think

956
00:54:21,560 --> 00:54:24,200
Speaker 1: could go into that number three spot is you have

957
00:54:24,440 --> 00:54:27,759
Speaker 1: the ninety seven Cunningham comeback, which I really want to

958
00:54:27,800 --> 00:54:31,759
Speaker 1: stump for that because I think it's this amazing forgotten

959
00:54:31,840 --> 00:54:34,080
Speaker 1: moment for me. That would go three and Moss would

960
00:54:34,080 --> 00:54:38,240
Speaker 1: go four. But I'm open to being pushed around Rootolf.

961
00:54:38,440 --> 00:54:41,080
Speaker 1: The Rootolph game had so many moments, and I think

962
00:54:41,120 --> 00:54:43,279
Speaker 1: those are the three that are really vying for this

963
00:54:43,480 --> 00:54:48,640
Speaker 1: third spot. Are you know Rudolph, the Moss Moon and

964
00:54:48,760 --> 00:54:51,600
Speaker 1: the Cunningham comeback? Is there any way I can convince

965
00:54:51,640 --> 00:54:55,200
Speaker 1: either of you to come to the Cunningham comeback deserves

966
00:54:55,280 --> 00:54:58,719
Speaker 1: more respect side. No, I'm in on it. I'm in

967
00:54:58,840 --> 00:55:02,080
Speaker 1: on of it. Yeah, it works for me. Yeah, I

968
00:55:02,200 --> 00:55:05,239
Speaker 1: think the Moss Moon is three simply because anytime you

969
00:55:05,280 --> 00:55:07,600
Speaker 1: could get a playoff memory over the Packers, I think

970
00:55:07,640 --> 00:55:11,960
Speaker 1: it gets higher on the list. Yep, that's fair. So

971
00:55:12,160 --> 00:55:15,040
Speaker 1: I can't, I can. You're you're kind You're the tiebreaker

972
00:55:15,080 --> 00:55:18,439
Speaker 1: if I'm going Cunningham. And it's funny the moment Saw

973
00:55:18,560 --> 00:55:20,240
Speaker 1: said that, I was like, yeah, you're right, but I'm

974
00:55:20,239 --> 00:55:25,279
Speaker 1: gonna hold firm here over on Cunningham. So that's well,

975
00:55:25,360 --> 00:55:27,440
Speaker 1: here's the here's the problem is I'm going I'm going

976
00:55:27,600 --> 00:55:30,960
Speaker 1: right off and I hate to be negative. Um, and

977
00:55:31,120 --> 00:55:33,600
Speaker 1: this is just the state of being, you know, in

978
00:55:33,719 --> 00:55:36,240
Speaker 1: love with the franchise that's seen more losses and wins

979
00:55:37,680 --> 00:55:41,560
Speaker 1: Farvo nine. I mean, it's just the the across the body. Uh,

980
00:55:41,760 --> 00:55:44,480
Speaker 1: that moment. It has to be in top five because

981
00:55:44,560 --> 00:55:47,840
Speaker 1: it's just I just saying far Vo nine. If I

982
00:55:48,000 --> 00:55:50,440
Speaker 1: was asking Jay behind the camera right now what I

983
00:55:50,560 --> 00:55:53,840
Speaker 1: mean by far Vo nine, Um, it's not going to

984
00:55:53,920 --> 00:55:57,560
Speaker 1: take him more than a millisecond to know and kind

985
00:55:57,600 --> 00:55:59,719
Speaker 1: of deer up a little bit, just like that moment

986
00:55:59,800 --> 00:56:01,520
Speaker 1: make me want to tear up a little bit. So

987
00:56:02,040 --> 00:56:05,600
Speaker 1: for me, it's you know, it's it's absolutely the two

988
00:56:05,680 --> 00:56:08,040
Speaker 1: thousand and nine NFC title game because it's one of

989
00:56:08,160 --> 00:56:11,720
Speaker 1: two that was our year things for me in my lifetime,

990
00:56:12,520 --> 00:56:17,200
Speaker 1: that's a really good point. So so then Sauce, I'm

991
00:56:17,280 --> 00:56:19,839
Speaker 1: with you. Here's the thing. I'm with you. I'm gonna

992
00:56:19,880 --> 00:56:25,120
Speaker 1: cast I'm gonna cast a deciding vote here and I ah,

993
00:56:25,719 --> 00:56:28,600
Speaker 1: this is why I would be a horrible judge. I'd

994
00:56:28,640 --> 00:56:30,880
Speaker 1: be the worst judge, like those judges who have to

995
00:56:31,000 --> 00:56:34,480
Speaker 1: decide stuff at the you know, I couldn't decide on

996
00:56:34,560 --> 00:56:36,399
Speaker 1: any of it. When you don't do a jury, you're

997
00:56:36,440 --> 00:56:38,880
Speaker 1: like just asking people like you're asking the bailiff. I

998
00:56:38,920 --> 00:56:41,400
Speaker 1: don't know. Do you trust her? What is right? She

999
00:56:41,520 --> 00:56:48,439
Speaker 1: seems nice? Like I got I got nothing. I'll I'll

1000
00:56:48,560 --> 00:56:52,000
Speaker 1: agree to far Vo nine at three, but to me

1001
00:56:52,320 --> 00:56:54,479
Speaker 1: for it to be a top five four and five,

1002
00:56:54,880 --> 00:56:58,600
Speaker 1: there have been enough positive moments here. So if we

1003
00:56:58,760 --> 00:57:04,839
Speaker 1: go miracle one UH ninety eight to Farvo ninety three,

1004
00:57:06,200 --> 00:57:09,200
Speaker 1: the big conversation here, I think moss is four? So

1005
00:57:09,320 --> 00:57:12,279
Speaker 1: which one getting the mosses? The moss moon is four?

1006
00:57:12,800 --> 00:57:15,800
Speaker 1: Which one's getting the boot here? Is it the forgotten

1007
00:57:15,880 --> 00:57:21,840
Speaker 1: Cunningham moment? Or is it the the Kyle Rudolph game.

1008
00:57:23,200 --> 00:57:29,920
Speaker 1: I'll argue this the Cunningham moment launched. I mean doing

1009
00:57:30,000 --> 00:57:32,600
Speaker 1: that he stays around, that might be like a veer

1010
00:57:32,720 --> 00:57:36,080
Speaker 1: off the timeline. If that doesn't happen, who knows how

1011
00:57:36,200 --> 00:57:38,720
Speaker 1: the offseason takes place, and then what sort of situation.

1012
00:57:39,280 --> 00:57:41,600
Speaker 1: Good point. So I want to argue for that. But

1013
00:57:41,680 --> 00:57:43,920
Speaker 1: there's two of you. If either of you want to

1014
00:57:43,960 --> 00:57:46,520
Speaker 1: push hard for the for the Saints game, I'm here.

1015
00:57:46,720 --> 00:57:49,680
Speaker 1: I'm here to hear that yeah, well the Saints game

1016
00:57:50,480 --> 00:57:52,920
Speaker 1: go ahead, nortal. Well, I love it. I love the

1017
00:57:53,000 --> 00:57:56,160
Speaker 1: Saints game. I did not love. What happened is we

1018
00:57:56,320 --> 00:58:00,520
Speaker 1: got just absolutely slaughtered at San Francisco. I think you

1019
00:58:00,600 --> 00:58:03,360
Speaker 1: know that everyone was talking about our Stefanski was already

1020
00:58:03,400 --> 00:58:06,720
Speaker 1: thinking about going to Cleveland like that day. Just a

1021
00:58:06,920 --> 00:58:10,160
Speaker 1: just a weird situation in saying France. But that's that's

1022
00:58:10,160 --> 00:58:12,760
Speaker 1: a little bit of recency bias. Um. And again, I

1023
00:58:13,440 --> 00:58:17,080
Speaker 1: you know, without going two down, two down the line

1024
00:58:17,120 --> 00:58:20,880
Speaker 1: of Vikings war, how many times in playoff history are

1025
00:58:20,920 --> 00:58:22,960
Speaker 1: you going to get an onside kick into a game

1026
00:58:23,000 --> 00:58:26,120
Speaker 1: winning field goal? Um, I would be I'd be prone

1027
00:58:26,160 --> 00:58:30,160
Speaker 1: to lean. Eddie Murray. Well, think about ye. Think about

1028
00:58:30,280 --> 00:58:34,360
Speaker 1: if next week in the playoffs in TCO, if the

1029
00:58:34,520 --> 00:58:37,760
Speaker 1: Vikings are down twenty two to ten, or excuse me,

1030
00:58:37,840 --> 00:58:40,240
Speaker 1: twenty two to thirteen and the other team has the ball,

1031
00:58:40,920 --> 00:58:43,560
Speaker 1: which would be very on brand with this season for

1032
00:58:43,680 --> 00:58:46,520
Speaker 1: that to happen and us still win. But if that

1033
00:58:46,720 --> 00:58:50,080
Speaker 1: happens in this year, going with your recency bias argument,

1034
00:58:50,440 --> 00:58:52,680
Speaker 1: we are all Bennett, We're like, this is one of

1035
00:58:52,720 --> 00:58:56,240
Speaker 1: the all time. So I think I think that's I

1036
00:58:56,320 --> 00:58:58,960
Speaker 1: think you're right. I think you got to avoid recency bias.

1037
00:58:59,160 --> 00:59:01,120
Speaker 1: And if if Sauce is okay with it, I think

1038
00:59:01,280 --> 00:59:05,400
Speaker 1: Cunningham comeback rounds out the top five. I think you're right.

1039
00:59:05,480 --> 00:59:09,360
Speaker 1: I like all those. Yeah, I mean, the the Rutolph

1040
00:59:09,400 --> 00:59:11,960
Speaker 1: bit was incredible, But like if you said, if the

1041
00:59:12,080 --> 00:59:14,720
Speaker 1: Rootolph thing, I mean, let's just talk it like it.

1042
00:59:14,880 --> 00:59:16,160
Speaker 1: You know, we can make it up as we go.

1043
00:59:16,520 --> 00:59:19,200
Speaker 1: But if the Rutolph thing happens in ninety seven and

1044
00:59:19,320 --> 00:59:24,880
Speaker 1: the Cunningham like comeback happens in twenty twenty, then yeah,

1045
00:59:24,920 --> 00:59:27,960
Speaker 1: you're right. The recency bias is what makes us not

1046
00:59:28,280 --> 00:59:30,880
Speaker 1: think a lot about the Cunningham comeback. And that's why

1047
00:59:30,920 --> 00:59:32,960
Speaker 1: I think it should be in the top fun fat

1048
00:59:33,040 --> 00:59:35,760
Speaker 1: little win against the Giants, and then the next year

1049
00:59:35,920 --> 00:59:39,200
Speaker 1: it's fifteen and one, A star is born with Randy

1050
00:59:39,280 --> 00:59:42,120
Speaker 1: Moss and all of that. So it can be easily forgotten,

1051
00:59:42,200 --> 00:59:44,919
Speaker 1: but not here. Not here, because we take these lists

1052
00:59:45,000 --> 00:59:48,400
Speaker 1: seriously and we're not ranking just for the hell of it. Okay,

1053
00:59:48,480 --> 00:59:52,240
Speaker 1: so we appreciate history. We are not in a completely

1054
00:59:52,400 --> 00:59:55,880
Speaker 1: biased by just what the closest moment was. We go

1055
00:59:55,960 --> 00:59:58,280
Speaker 1: back into the annals of time, we do the proper research,

1056
00:59:59,400 --> 01:00:01,520
Speaker 1: so here's where we land. I love it. I think

1057
01:00:01,600 --> 01:00:04,000
Speaker 1: we I actually think we did. I was a little

1058
01:00:04,160 --> 01:00:08,520
Speaker 1: nervous about playoff memories and us, you know, Nordo negative

1059
01:00:08,560 --> 01:00:10,880
Speaker 1: and all, like I was where you were at Nordo.

1060
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Speaker 1: I thought that's where we were gonna live. But we

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Speaker 1: have a pretty good list here. Minnesota Miracle one, uh

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Speaker 1: ninety eight, Miss Kick Too, Fargo nine three, The Moss Moon,

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Speaker 1: Lambo Destruction four, and the Cunningham. The Cunningham comeback really

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Speaker 1: spices things up. It makes it a nice list. So

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Speaker 1: that's our top five. Well, Flare Walsh off the list,

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Speaker 1: that's that's exactly the list. Yeah, seven, which is where

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Speaker 1: that's that's a good spot. So guys, thank you so

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Speaker 1: much for doing this. You do with Kings. Everybody listening,

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Speaker 1: consume all the things they do. But I would say,

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Speaker 1: if I could take a moment personally, consume Saturdays with Sauce. Guys.

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Speaker 1: I've told you both this. I love that show. It's

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Speaker 1: so great, it's so fun. It's a lot like this.

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Speaker 1: It's just you guys talking about the things you care about.

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Speaker 1: So check out both those guys on all things they do.

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Speaker 1: K F A N Thank you, M