it’s been fun watching Vikings fans embrace the past week, which has to feel like the greatest week in their history as sports fans. Winning the game over the Saints as they did ranks as one of the great satisfying moment in any team’s history, but especially a franchise as tortured as the Vikings.
But what can I say? I’m always far more intrigued by the other side of the story, by the fans who have absorb and endure. It may explain why I prefer “Here’s to the Losers” to “We Are the Champions.” I made the mistake of asking the biggest Saints fan I know this week if the fact her team won a Super Bowl less than a decade ago mitigated what happened last week.