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Is it more painful to be Twins Fan or Vikings Fan?

Loosey

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Vikings fans have it tougher, easily.  The Twins have won it all a couple of times.

 

The Vikings have an enviable W-L record in the regular season, but for various reasons have never won the big game.  

 

And heck, it's been 40 years since they have even made it to the big game.

 

The Twins problems are often self-induced.  Vikings problems are different.  

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Over the last 6 years.... Twins no question. Teams in the NFL can turn things around in a hurry. The rebuild/non-rebuild process has been excruciating to watch for our Twins.  

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Since I'm not a Vikings fan, the choice is rather easy :-)

 

Twins haven't won a W Series since '91.  That's quite some time ago.  My son, from my first marriage, was born on MLB opening day '92, and he's already served a four year commitment in the Army, gotten married, bought a house and is on a new career.  He has never seen the Twins even make it to a W Series, much less win one.

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There is more short term hope built and crushed being a Vikings fan. Never mind the Super Bowl or lack thereof, the rush and crush cycle is more acute. With the Twins, the rises are more gentle, and the valleys are elongated.

 

The Vikings are the hottie you're madly in love with for 2 to 5 months, and who always breaks up with you. Sometimes you see it coming, sometimes you don't. But it always happens. Somehow, you always run into each other in late summer and hit it off again. By fall, you somehow end up back together for another 2 to 5 months. You know it won't ever really work out, but you can't stop, because you love the good times too much to quit completely.

 

The Twins are your long-term steady. You've been with them forever and you have so many memories together. You don't always agree, but you know they are there for you pretty much any day or night you want them to be. You've been with them so long, that you don't even realize that you don't always enjoy being around them all the time, or that when they do something terrible you just kind of accept it as the way things are. "When did we get like this? Why do I stand for some of these decisions that they keep making," you ask yourself. A lot of times, you take more joy in watching the kids grow up than anything you actually get out of the relationship. But you believe deep down that this is who you should be with, and you always have hope that things will get better. You hope, and you stay.

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Vikings, and it's not close. 6th best regular season winning percentage in NFL history, the SB losses, 4 straight NFC CG losses, two in gut wrenching fashion and one a lobsided 41 point drubbing. The twins put it all together for 2 titles, but for the most part have bounced back and forth between relevance and doggy doo doo for their entire existence. Also, the fact that they still run their club like it's the 1980s makes their losses neither unexpected nor all that difficult to stomach.

 

In just the last 20 years, the Vikings had (at the time) the highest scoring single season offense in NFL history, one of the top 10 running backs of all time, one of the top 10 (or 5?) WR's of all time, a HOF QB who had a career year and a kicker who didn't miss a FG in 2 years. AND THEY STILL HAVEN'T WON SQUAT. What happened today is just a continuation of the misery that comes with being a Vikings fan. A blown up knee on a non-contact play. 12 days before the season opener.

 

Meanwhile, the twins seem content to just exist and probably are happy there is no relegation like in English soccer.

 

This isn't even up for debate.

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50+ year fan of each, They have both broken my heart more times than I care to remember. but I do remember......each and every one.

Vanimal46 Cooperstown

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Which Minnesota team was giving Tim Tebow a tryout, again?

Exactly. The Vikings at least have had entertaining players to watch in recent years.

 

Meanwhile, let's talk about the Twins starting rotation the last 4 years!

 

Yohan Pino, Mike Pelfrey, Correia, Sam Deduno, Pedro freaking Hernandez.

Vanimal46 Cooperstown

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Certainly 1998 was the biggest single disappointment. I really liked that group.

The last sport event that made me cry. Please ignore the fact I was 8 at the time :)

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Certainly 1998 was the biggest single disappointment. I really liked that group.

I made a lot of money on the Falcons/Vikings playoff game.  I don't bet on Sports a lot, but I was in Vikings Territory during that time around a bunch of Vikings fans. I felt bad for the Vikings fans I knew, but felt good for my pocketbook.

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The last sport event that made me cry. Please ignore the fact I was 8 at the time :)

We were at Disney World with our two young nephews. Youngest was about your age. Watched the game in our hotel room. It was not a magical day.

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Which Minnesota team was giving Tim Tebow a tryout, again?

This is a poor comparison because half the MLB was at that tryout. You should point out that Andrew Albers is in the starting rotation - that will suffice.

 

But yeah, the Vikings have it worse because they have a competent coaching staff/GM and still can't win. The Twins are just thoroughly inept right now.

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That's a tough one. Frankly I think the Vikes. They have had some dominating teams that ended in some heartbreaking playoff losses, with odd happenings. The Twins have actually really never had a dominating team, maybe way back in the 60's or early 70's. Even when they won it all, they were basically an average team on a roll. So the pain was muted when they usually got wiped out in the playoffs.

Loosey FCL Twins

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Oh man,

 

The Teddy injury was truly horrible. 'Tibiofemoral dislocation ... basically, Bridgewater's femur (upper leg) went off the tibia (shin, lower leg.) Yeah'

 

 

http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/report-vikings-trainers-saved-bridgewaters-leg-and-career/ar-AAikdAV?li=BBnb7Kz

That explains why an ambulance had to come.  He is (in the grand scheme of things) actually lucky he had a training staff that recognized what type of injury it was.  Something that gruesome could have have been worse is scary.

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Certainly 1998 was the biggest single disappointment. I really liked that group.

 

I couldn't handle the 98 choke job against the Falcons.  That was it for me, burned my Vikings jersey and everything.  Haven't paid attention to them since.  Never understood why my dad (who is now in his late 60's) always called them the ViQueens until that point. 

 

....Just so many choke jobs, super bowl humiliations, sorry players, sorry coaches, yuck!  That stuff on top of the Herschel Walker trade, rolls eyes.  Talk about shooting yourself in the foot as an organization.  They basically gave the Cowboys a super bowl dynasty era in one stupid trade,  Idiots.

 

To me it's a no-brainer.  At least the Twins have won SOMETHING in their existence!!!

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Lol Vikings. They're the reason I don't follow the NFL and stick with college football. The schadenfreude value is quite high. That and the hardcore NFL fans are annoying as hell no matter what team they cheer for.

 

But that sucks for Bridgewater. Possibly career ending freak injury- something that will likely bother him for the rest of his life.

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Vikings fan due to the agony of the losses - Darrin Nelson dropped pass in '87, 1998 missed FG against Atl,  Overtime loss to Saints with 6 fumbles, too many men in the huddle and not touching the ball in OT, missed chip shot FG last year - many more I have probably wiped from my mind including the humiliating shutout against the Giants in 2000 Championship game.   As others have mentioned the Twins have won the big one twice in my lifetime - coming through in the big moments.   Yes, their long seasons of futility can be torture but they have won it all which provides warm thoughts in dark times. 

 

Something that put Teddy's injury in perspective for me, seeing the ambulance on the field reminded me of 2000 and Korey Stringer losing his life at training camp.  So it is a terrible injury and puts a damper on this season but it has been much worse.  

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