56 thoughts on “January 15, 2017: Diggs”

    1. Love it. Not that I typically hate on the other team, but it was very satisfying to see Coach Zoolander Payton have that smug look wiped off his face. I heard after the New Orleans Field Goal he was taunting fans with the Skol chant.

      True Story: All year, as I watched the Skol chant I thought "how silly, forced and contrived". I did not get it. During the game last night I refused to do it. It still seemed silly and forced. My wife gave me the stink eye all game for being such a prude. When we got the ball back with 25 seconds left, they did it one more time. I was the only one in my section not doing it at first. I was clinging to such a small sliver of hope and totally caved. I did the Skol chant. I bought into the silly notion that as fans we can impact the game either directly (noise) or indirectly (silly chants). Cards are turned over and I have 4 aces. We win the game.

      1. Been avoiding even acknowledging the Skol chant all season, for the eaxact same reasons. When I saw Keenum doing it with the fans, while standing in the end zone after they won the game, I thought, “Neat! Even if it is silly and contrived, the players do appreciate what the fans are bringing.” I suppose with the noise level in there, it’s darn near impossible to avoid the crowd’s energy, but still.

        1. Likewise, but it's hard not to be caught up in the spectacle when in person. I made two games this year (work) and it becomes a pretty fun environment.
          Makes me wonder what the Coliseum would have been like.

          2. The Coliseum--at least the one in Rome--was not all that big. What I want to experience is what it was like at the Estádio do Maracanã at the 1950 World Cup Final. With little or no safety regulations in place, they had 199,854 people packed into a stadium that with modern regulations holds just 78,000.

            3. Last time in Rome I heard that the visitors to the Coliseum got free admission to the stadium, but had to strictly adhere to the rules on what road to arrive on, what gate to enter, what seat to sit in. Aut.

    2. I was just coming here to post the photo I took at breakfast. I'm sure DPWY's outlaws are real, real happy this morning.

      1. I talked to them briefly today, but it barely came up. If I was living there, there is a decent chance I would have been shot running the streets yelling and taunting the locals.

  4. Two things that give me chills still today:

    1. Listening to the various radio broadcasts of the play and you can hear the crowd noise explode right when they realize that Rice is unimpeded to the end zone.

    2. Rice going into the end zone and standing there with his arms extended trying to take in the moment and adulation. I think any person who has played sports, boy or girl, professional or backyard player has dreamed of a moment like that and imagined a play like that in their mind, arms extended as the world is going crazy around them.

    As for Skol chant. I'm definitely one of those guys who hates contrived fan stuff like this. To this day I've never waved a homer hanky. Definitely at first it was contrived and fans were doing it half-heartedly. But perhaps because the season has been so good but I think it's gone past being contrived and the fans and players have embraced it and now it is real. People do it outside of Vikings games too as a joke to express adulation. Finally word is that Saints coach Payton was mocking Vikings fans with a Skol chant with 20 seconds left in the game. That show's its grown beyond a fake and is a real thing.

    1. I don't follow football all that closely, but who is Rice?

      I have to say I don't know what the Skol chant is, but I'm certain it's not derogatory like the gawdawful Tomahawk Chop, so it has that going for it.

      3. It's a ripoff of the Icelandic futbol chant. Which was a response to the New Zealand ripoff of Maori haka.

        1. Are we distinguishing "ripoff" from "adaptation?" Because wasn't it pulled from from that Icelandic chant precisely because they're the Vikings?

  5. Annoying: when company's apps (I'm looking at you, Hilton and Southwest) nag you to upgrade, and when you try, they tell you that it won't run on your phone. And the old version no longer works, too. It's not like I have anything close to a flip-phone, but it should still be good enough for what these apps are trying to do, regardless of the OS version.

    1. Even not knowing which you use, I suspect the blame for your inability to upgrade those apps lies (mostly) with Google & your carrier. Yes, the developers at those companies should ensure older devices can run them (within a reasonable window of recency, which I imagine you’re in), but carriers delaying or disregarding OS updates that provide users with essential security & usability updates seems criminal to me. I’d love for a court to force carriers to implement reasonable updates in a timely manner based on a lawsuit around ADA & accessibility. Google could force the issue, but apparently they can’t be bothered.

      This is not a problem iOS devices experience, btw.

      1. The Samsung Galaxy Mega is an Android smartphone/tablet computer hybrid ("phablet" or "tablet phone") manufactured by Samsung. It was announced on April 11, 2013. The original model featured a 6.3 in (160 mm) screen, though a revised version was released with a 5.8 in (150 mm) screen.

        Now I'm bummed that Huawei and Xiaomi phones aren't readily available.

      2. Google could force the issue

        They've tried but with only middling success. The manufacturers (read: Samsung) have had too much power historically. That's changing while at the same time Google is doing an end-around the process. In the meantime, everyone not using a Google-branded device gets (at best) ad hoc security and everyone overall gets crap for updates. Fun for everyone.

      1. Yeah, they were huge for me in the last couple of years of high school. I didn't carry them into adulthood, but I love her voice and continued to think of them fondly. Given the weirdly high distribution of Citizens born in 1977, I figured others would be affected.

  7. I know all the attention is going to the 22 year old d-back missing a tackle but how about the 50 year old coordinator that didn't have anyone else between Diggs and the end zone?

        1. Seems like coordinators always go all in on the prevent D and bend like crazy, or they play aggressively like it's the first quarter, and only rarely split the difference with reasonable pressure plus a safety valve or two.

    2. Well, he was the safety. The defense was designed to cover all of the sideline zones and turn everything in. If the kid keeps his head up and is under control, game over.

      1. They had 5-6 d-backs on the field. Why did 2 receivers only have a CB and S on their side of the field? Why was the corner even worried about the underneith receiver? Total defensive fail.

  8. Been at urgent care for 90 minutes waiting to be seen. Taking out the trash last night, I slipped off the stoop and landed sideways on my foot. Can’t put any weight on it without searing pain, even the weight of the bedcovers last night but too much. Hoping it’s not broken, but not much confidence in that outcome.

      1. It is that foot, and it's got a broken metatarsal. Ace bandage wraps, post-op shoe, RICE and ibuprofen. A can of corn. Plus, wife and two daughters at home, I won't be lifting a finger the rest of the week. Skol!

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