Optimism

When you're a sports fan in Minnesota optimism is tough to hang on too. Especially since it's like 5 below outside. But I want to talk about the NFL right now. The Minnesota Vikings are playing really well. I don't want to get too far ahead of myself right now, but let's take a look around the NFC and see where we stand. Right now we are the 3rd seed in the conference with a chance at the 2 seed. At the same time we have yet to make the playoffs, and could still end up on the outside looking in. But let's be optimists here. Let's say we win out. And let's say the Giants lose to the Panthers next weekend in Carolina. We would be the 2 seed. Carolina would be the 1, the Giants would be the 3 and the Cardinals would be the 4. And some sort of Atlanta, Philidelphia, Tampa, Dallas combination would be the 2 wild cards. Hopefully it is Atlanta and Tampa in my opinion. If that ended up being the case we would have a 4-1 record against the NFC playoff teams, and we would be riding a 6 game winning streak. So who would you pick to beat us in the playoffs? Maybe we are who we thought we were?