I feel your pain
Skyking:
Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. I kept on waking up last night thinking it was just a bad dream. But as a long time fan who was born the year that Lombardi left for the Redskins, I try to keep it in perspective. If you read the bumper stickers on the family truckster when I was young, you would have discovered:
1972- "The Pack is Divine"
1975- "A Fresh Start with Bart"
1979- "You Can Sack our Pack, but you can't Lick our Dickey (my favorite)"
1984- "The Pack is Back" (not much clever to say with Forrest Gregg at the helm)
1989- Infante We Trust
In '93, a buddy of mine and myself came up with a shirt to sell at the games. It had a picture of a stick figure throwing a football on the front, and it said Farvregnungen on it (like the VW ads), with a definition on the back. Sales were pretty brisk until the end of the season, when Brett had more interceptions than TDs. But in the long run, things turned out pretty well...
Remember Brent Fumblewood? Barty Smith? Mossy Cade? Tony Mandarich? I could go on and on, but you get the picture. I'm just trying to cheer myself up a little bit. It wasn't a great season, but it's been worse, and we still have Brett. Hey, it could always be worse. After all, we could be Vikings fans.