{"id":16844,"date":"2012-09-09T08:57:47","date_gmt":"2012-09-09T13:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=16844"},"modified":"2014-05-09T14:26:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-09T19:26:00","slug":"the-most-boring-team-in-franchise-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/09\/09\/the-most-boring-team-in-franchise-history\/","title":{"rendered":"The most boring team in franchise history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Viking_Head.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Viking_Head\" width=\"80\" height=\"81\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10672\" \/>That&#8217;s the opinion of long-time <em>Minneapolis Star Tribune<\/em> sportswriter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/sports\/vikings\/169005896.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Souhan<\/a>, who seems to be almost disappointed that there isn&#8217;t anything to write about this year&#8217;s version of the Minnesota Vikings other than, y&#8217;know, the actual on-the-field stuff:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Today, Minnesotans face a difficult choice.<\/p>\n<p>What to watch on TV?<\/p>\n<p>The Vikings open the season at the Metrodome against Jacksonville. That&#8217;s an option. There&#8217;s also &#8220;Food For Thought with Claire Thomas.&#8221; And a rerun of &#8220;My Name is Earl.&#8221; And a spicy new drama entitled &#8220;Government Access Programming.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My advice: Avoid the kind of stress and excitement that can lead to myocardial infarction, and choose the Vikings. Your heart will thank you.<\/p>\n<p>This might be the most boring team in franchise history.<\/p>\n<p>This might be the first boring team in franchise history.<\/p>\n<p>Our Vikings know drama. This is the franchise of quarterback controversies and water-borne debauchery. This is the franchise of wacky owners and rampant arrests, like the time Keith Millard told cops that his arms were more powerful than their guns.<\/p>\n<p>This is the franchise that traded hundreds of players and draft picks for Herschel Walker; watched Denny Green issue statements regarding allegations about his behavior from a bunker of unknown location; twice acquired and ditched Randy Moss; landed Brett Favre just in time for him to become famous for texting pictures of his Crocs; had a head coach scalp Super Bowl tickets; and had a starting quarterback coin the term &#8220;Slappy&#8221; for back-stabbing backups.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s the opinion of long-time Minneapolis Star Tribune sportswriter Jim Souhan, who seems to be almost disappointed that there isn&#8217;t anything to write about this year&#8217;s version of the Minnesota Vikings other than, y&#8217;know, the actual on-the-field stuff: Today, Minnesotans face a difficult choice. What to watch on TV? The Vikings open the season at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26],"tags":[126,179],"class_list":["post-16844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","tag-minnesotavikings","tag-nfl"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4nG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16845,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16844\/revisions\/16845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}