Thursday, January 31, 2013  National Friday League: Another
Super Bowl Sunday  If your prime of watching pro football came
sometime in the late '60s into the middle of the '70s, you might
have started to feel entitled to see the Vikings in the Super
Bowl. I came along later (they made their last Super Bowl before
I was born), and so the Vikings playing in the Super Bowl is
really something that happens only in my dreams and video games.
It's two separate worlds that don't end up going together, my
watching the Super Bowl and my passionate fandom for the
Vikings; I can just watch and enjoy a Super Bowl as if it has
nothing to do with the Vikings. It's like being a pacifist but
really, really, really loving Star Wars: it's just a separate
realm of existence. The Super Bowl is a general historic thing
to watch, and the Vikings are a passionate love, and (in my
experience thus far) never the twain shall meet (though after
traumatic NFC championship games, or when the Packers are in the
Super Bowl, the separation