TCTOD: If the Vikings had won, what would Saints fans complain about?

Commenter Newbie wishes to close out the day with a little bit of revisionist history. Painful, perhaps amusing, revisionist history. Newbie?

January 25, 2010 at 11:03PM
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Commenter Newbie wishes to close out the day with a little bit of revisionist history. Painful, perhaps amusing, revisionist history. Newbie?

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You know what would be fun? Let's pretend the Vikings won on Sunday and we are Saints fans. What bits of the game can we magnify to complain about on blogs? Here are a few to get started:

How does Drew Brees (or the center) not snap the ball when Williams jumped off-sides on 4th and 1?

That was a [redacted] call when Casillas hit Reynaud, he muffed the punt and still could have gotten up to run. We're just trying to create turnovers.

They should have intercepted Favre instead of allowing a completion to Rice to get them in FG range to win the game! Any more?

Oh, we've got a few:

*How many Vikings drives were extended by penalties? Stupid refs!

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*If the Saints recover just one of those stupid Peterson fumbles and score, they turn this game into a laugher!

*Stupid Brees fumbled the snap and gave them a free stop on third down before they tied it! Convert there and they are in much better shape!

*What was Sean Payton thinking with all the 3rd-and-1 runs? Should have thrown up and down the field on them!

*If that idiot had just tackled Berrian on the third down play late in regulation, the Vikings would have had to punt!

This is oddly cathartic. Kind of makes you realize the Vikings could have lost a ton of different ways, just as they could have won a ton of different ways.

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Michael Rand

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Michael Rand is the Minnesota Star Tribune's Digital Sports Senior Writer and host/creator of the Daily Delivery podcast. In 25 years covering Minnesota sports at the Minnesota Star Tribune, he has seen just about everything (except, of course, a Vikings Super Bowl).

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