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Speaker 1: Yo, what's going on? Welcome to the Minnesota Vikings Podcast

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Speaker 1: presented by PEPSI. I'm Gabe Henderson. I'm inside the TCOL

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Speaker 1: Radio studio with our producer Eric Davidson, Vikings dot com

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Speaker 1: statum Everett, as well as Vikings dot COM's Jay Neltson.

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Speaker 1: There's no special guest on today's show. It's the Big

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Speaker 1: three and I'm excited to just talk Vikings football because one,

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Speaker 1: there's still a chance. There's still a chance, and the

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Speaker 1: Vikings still can make the playoffs at seven and eight

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Speaker 1: right now if they went out and get help from

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Speaker 1: the Rams and or the Seahawks. So I'm excited to

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Speaker 1: see how this Vikings team bounces back. We don't know

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Speaker 1: what is going to look like, but if you have

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Speaker 1: been watching this season, you know that anything can happen.

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Speaker 1: If you are watching this Minnesota Vikings team. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you can beat the San Francisco forty nine ers, who

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Speaker 1: are arguably the best team in the NFL. I guess

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Speaker 1: as the Ravens that or you know, you lose those

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Speaker 1: two tough games against the Bucks and the Hard So Jay,

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Speaker 1: just being at the game this past Sunday, the white out,

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Speaker 1: that the energy that the vibe that all went into

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Speaker 1: it to leaving us Bank Stadium, the way you felt.

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Speaker 1: How would you sum it all up.

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Speaker 2: I think it was fun and exciting just the game

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Speaker 2: to start, you know. I think the atmosphere was great,

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Speaker 2: and you get some really fun skull chants and there

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Speaker 2: people were really into it and they're really vibe with it.

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Speaker 2: I think the frustrating part at the end was just

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Speaker 2: the way that once again you're driving down the field,

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Speaker 2: you're getting the chance to you know, make a play

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Speaker 2: and try to score to to win the game essentially,

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Speaker 2: and just come up short once again. So I think

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Speaker 2: the overall tone and everything it was kind of the fun,

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Speaker 2: festive Christmas Eve vibe, and then by the end, you know,

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Speaker 2: everyone's walking home going, man, this is just kind of

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Speaker 2: another one that happened this year and just kind of

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Speaker 2: a disappointing pattern that has happened. But those one score games,

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Speaker 2: you know, last year we were so incredible with them,

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Speaker 2: just you know, phenomenal, and this year it's just been

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Speaker 2: such an uphill battle. So I think overall it was

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Speaker 2: it was a fun game, entertaining game and everything, but

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Speaker 2: just you didn't get the win. And so once again

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Speaker 2: you're just kind of a little disappointed with the result overall.

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Speaker 1: Yes, those one score games that pretty much dictate what

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Speaker 1: the Viking season has been this year and last year,

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Speaker 1: or just Kevin O'Connell's tenure as head coach of the

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Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings. I mean, last year we were eleven and

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Speaker 1: zero in one score games and now we have a

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Speaker 1: losing record. So just understanding that, Tatum, you were there Sunday,

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Speaker 1: what were your thoughts on just the vibe and then

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Speaker 1: the energy when you left the stadium after that loss

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I love this fan base. They're with

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Speaker 3: their team to the very end, no matter what. And

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Speaker 3: I think that that's kind of what I took home

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Speaker 3: make their final exit potentially at least their final exit

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Speaker 3: of twenty twenty three, potentially of the season. And I

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Speaker 3: just don't, you know, that's not how I want them

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Speaker 3: to remember their time there, because it is such an

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Speaker 3: awesome atmosphere. The white out was incredible. There were so

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Speaker 3: many Christmas vibes in there. Everyone kind of just met

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Speaker 3: the challenge of creating a very fun and raucous environment,

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Speaker 3: and I want that to same energy to be there

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Speaker 3: on New Year's Eve.

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Speaker 4: I think it is a really cool.

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Speaker 3: Night game vibe where you have, you know, this special

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Speaker 3: you're going to ring in the new year with I

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Speaker 3: sat on the Vikings Weekly, sixty six thousand of your

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Speaker 3: closest friends, and I just want that to propel these

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Speaker 1: They do, and they also deserve to beat the Packers.

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Speaker 1: Just saying that we beat the Packers at lambeau Field.

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Speaker 1: Of course it was in a fashion that none of

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Speaker 1: us wanted with Kirk Cousins, Sarah kiss Achilles, but the

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Speaker 1: fact that you get to end the new year in

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Speaker 1: an opportunity for us to I guess just in the

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Speaker 1: year on the right note. We know the game we're

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Speaker 1: however they do so. But still I believe Vikings fans

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Speaker 2: I think the best thing for me is knowing that

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Speaker 2: these these final three games were all division games. There's

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Speaker 2: still a vested interest there. It's not like you're getting

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Speaker 2: you know, somebody from AFC or something that doesn't really matter.

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Speaker 2: These three games still really matter. This team is still

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Speaker 2: chasing a playoff spot. I mean, like you said, need

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Speaker 2: a little help from the Rams and from the Seahawks

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Speaker 2: a little bit, but at the same point, like you

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Speaker 2: still got to get those victories. So for me, the

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Speaker 2: best part is knowing you got the Packers coming in

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Speaker 2: be probably enjoying the day, getting ready for the pregame

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Speaker 2: tailgate and everything, and then being able to come in

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Speaker 2: night vibes. All the stuff they've got planned for in stadium.

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Speaker 2: For the game itself, I think is going to be

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Speaker 2: about us Bank Stadium. We're one of the best in

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Speaker 2: the league period as far as people showing up early

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Speaker 2: and being there and interacting with everything. So again, we

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Speaking of that fun environment, there will be a

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Speaker 1: light show at the beginning of the game. I believe

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Speaker 1: of that light show, you can download the Vikings app

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Speaker 1: and then enable your microphone and it will give you

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Speaker 1: all the prompts that you need to do and able

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Speaker 1: to be a part of that. It's going to be special.

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Speaker 1: If you were at us Bank Stadium on Week one,

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Speaker 1: So I'm excited to see what that looks like. Also,

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Speaker 1: you can scan the barcode at the stadium. There are

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Speaker 1: going to be a few prompts enabling fans to participate

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Speaker 1: of fun. Seven to twenty pm Central Time kickoff. Border

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Speaker 1: Battle number one twenty five an opportunity for the Vikings

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Speaker 1: This is going to be a rocket environment. And that's

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Speaker 1: the one thing that I like when we talk about

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Speaker 1: And if I'm pointing out anything that I like, I

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Speaker 1: two of winning the twelfth Man.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think the fun part about that too

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Speaker 2: game day vibes are just a different atmosphere. And I

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Speaker 2: the most part, you know, they get it. You know,

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Speaker 2: but at the same point point you just want them

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Speaker 1: Job with it. What do you like heading into Sunday's matchup,

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Speaker 4: Big fan of Brian O'Neill coming back.

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Speaker 3: I think that he's kind of been one of those

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Speaker 4: So that's what I like this week. I really like

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Speaker 4: Brian O'Neil coming back, Yeah, I think.

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Speaker 1: If you I mean, no matter who's the quarterback, right,

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Speaker 2: I think the thing that is the most encouraging for

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Speaker 2: and just kind of stifle them the way that we did.

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Speaker 2: I think there's no doubt that Jordan Love has been

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Speaker 1: Crazy.

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Speaker 2: But the thing for me is knowing that, yes, with

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Speaker 1: I still have faith in the fact.

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Speaker 2: That that we can throw some more wrinkles at them

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, Jordan Love since playing us, since that

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Speaker 1: And this is bring Bay Packers offense has averaged three

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Speaker 1: week we talk about opposing offenses, right and I don't

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Speaker 1: want to, you know, jinx ourselves, and then we see

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Speaker 1: opposing offenses have to go to a Plan B or

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Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean, Jordan Love said it earlier in

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Speaker 1: really good point of having an opportunity to go up

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Speaker 1: Well, we know that this is going to be a

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Speaker 1: Right, we're back. This is the Minnesota Vike Podcast presented

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Speaker 1: by PEPSI. I'm Gabe Henderson. I'm inside the TCO Radio

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Speaker 1: studio here in Egan with Vikings dot Com Stadium Everett,

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Speaker 1: Jay Nelson and our producer Eric Davidson. Guys, we were

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Speaker 1: talking about this New Year's Eve edition of the Border

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Speaker 1: But when you look at just some keys to success,

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Speaker 1: where do you start if you're this Minnesota Vikings team.

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Speaker 3: I think you have to have the ability to sustain

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Speaker 3: I mean, the guy gets fifteen targets the game, give him,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, unless you're the Pittsburgh Stillers and you

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Speaker 4: It was wild, that was wid But I.

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Speaker 1: Do trust our defense. But still with the way our

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Speaker 1: I know you talked to Jordan Nicks this week and

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Speaker 3: But he played in all seventy nine snaps six weeks

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Speaker 1: Yeah. It's one of those things where in Jay, you've

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Speaker 2: Well, he even made the comment just in some of

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Speaker 4: He did that in the game. I mean, he had

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you have to get pressure on Jordan

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Speaker 2: You just got to make sure if you're doing it,

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Speaker 1: And that's the biggest thing.

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Speaker 1: Agreed. Agreed, Well, my keydy, success is simple, don't turn

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Speaker 1: your favorite Vikings memory in twenty twenty three?

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Speaker 3: You know, I just I think the insanity of Josh Jobs.

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Speaker 4: That was crazy being here.

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Speaker 3: I think that's something I'll never really forget the fact

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Speaker 3: that he had been here a couple of days, went

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Speaker 3: into the Atlanta game and was able to clinch the

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Speaker 3: wind and keep and keep the momentum going because, you know,

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Speaker 3: the Kirk injury felt like this season could have been

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Speaker 3: doomed at that point, and they were doing very well

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Speaker 3: without him and able to kind of recover from the

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Speaker 3: slow start to the year.

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Speaker 4: So for me, it is probably.

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Speaker 3: The Josh Doobbs two or three week pandemonium. Yeah, where

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Speaker 3: he was the you know, the story of the NFL.

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Speaker 1: The Dobs delirium.

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Speaker 4: There we go. I like that delirium that was.

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Speaker 1: That was a moment in time, What a time to

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Speaker 1: be a lot and that.

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Speaker 4: Feels like eight years ago.

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Speaker 1: Seriously, very much, Jay, what about you?

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Speaker 2: For me, it was more of a personal note. I

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Speaker 2: was able to surprise a nephew for his birthday and

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Speaker 2: take him to the Packer game. So piled in the car,

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Speaker 2: my brothers and I and my nephew and went to

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Speaker 2: the game, got to see a win, and so for

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Speaker 2: us it was just kind of a happy family memory

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Speaker 2: being able to do that and and literally waited until

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Speaker 2: the Friday night before the game to.

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Speaker 1: Tell me what was happening.

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Speaker 2: So for me, that was my my number one moment

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Speaker 2: for the season, was just being able to spend some

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Speaker 2: time with family and go see the Bikings get a

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Speaker 2: win at Lambo.

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Speaker 1: So that was his first game, that was the first

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Speaker 1: time at Lambo and we beat the Packers, that's correct.

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Speaker 1: So can he come.

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Speaker 4: Up here this week going to the game on Sunday.

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Speaker 2: I think the thing about it too, just in general,

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Speaker 2: you know, being able to share that kind of stuff

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Speaker 2: with family. I think that's what this game for a

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Speaker 2: lot of us is all about and being able to

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Speaker 2: share those memories. And so for me that was just

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Speaker 2: being able to make that happen is a very special

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Speaker 2: thing for me and I really enjoyed my time being

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Speaker 2: able to do that. So that was my top memory

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Speaker 2: for twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 1: That's awesome. I'm ended on a positive vote also with

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Speaker 1: the family memory, and that's just being able to bring

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Speaker 1: my daughter to her first Vikings game. It was I

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Speaker 1: think it was week one. I brought her out there

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Speaker 1: and just seeing how you know, we take a picture

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Speaker 1: every time she's only been to two, but we take

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Speaker 1: a picture every time we go to a game, and

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Speaker 1: she'll be at the Sunday night matchup against the Packers

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Speaker 1: and just seeing how her eyes light up. You know,

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Speaker 1: you guys know that's my world. So just having her

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Speaker 1: being able to experience some of the I guess, the

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Speaker 1: memories that I experienced, some of the moments that I'm

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Speaker 1: blessed to be able to be afforded, That's who I

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Speaker 1: do it for. So I'm excited just to see, you know,

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Speaker 1: what the future looks like. Next year, she'll be walking,

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Speaker 1: She'll be walking on the field. So I'm excited to

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Speaker 1: see or talk about what the favorite memories are in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. But before we get there, we have

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Speaker 1: a New Year's Eve addition of Border Battle number one

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Speaker 1: twenty five between the Vikings and the Packers seven to

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Speaker 1: twenty pm Central Time, kickoff at us Bank Stadium. Vikings fans,

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Speaker 1: make sure you keep everyone safe around you. I know

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be a lot of fun. It's gonna be

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Speaker 1: a lot going on, and you're gonna bring in your

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Speaker 1: New Year the right way. But when you're bringing it in,

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Speaker 1: make sure you think about the person next to you

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Speaker 1: or the person in the car beside you. It's gonna

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Speaker 1: be a lot of fun, a lot of things happening.

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Speaker 1: Let's enjoy this thing together, and let's do it as

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Speaker 1: safe as we possibly can. For Eric Davison, Tatum, Everett J. Notes,

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Speaker 1: and my name is Gabe Henderson. Thank you guys again

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