500th Career Touchdown Pass! and still a loss

A 40 minute weather delay to a football game usually doesn’t say good things, good things for the Minnesota Vikings anyway. On October 11, 2010, the Minnesota Vikings squared off against the New York Jets. While this seems like it would have been an easy win for the Vikings with the gain of wide receiver Randy Moss, the Vikings don’t seem like they have it together this year. Although the Vikings did start out bad, they had a comeback during the end of the 3rd quarter with a pass to Randy Moss ….followed by a pass to the opposing team. This isn’t how the entire game went though.
The first quarter of the game started out with the Vikings showing a little bit of humor. Minnesota thought it would be humorous to pass the ball to the Vikings quarterback Brett Favre, giving us a penalty flag at the beginning of the game. The game started off slowly with only a 3-point field goal for the Jets in the first quarter, Jets leading 3-0. The second quarter heated up a little more with 3 more 3-point field goals for the Jets, leading the Jets 12-0. The Vikings finally started to make a comeback during the 3rd quarter with a touchdown pass by Brett Favre to our new starting wide receiver Randy Moss. This catch made it Favre’s 500th career touchdown pass.
This hype was soon followed by another field goal by the Jets, now Jets lead 15-7. It all came down to the 4th quarter. Wide receiver Percy Harvin caught an incredible pass, only inches away from the goal line shifting the score to 15-13. Excitement consumed Minnesota and caused them to make a quick faulty decision. Instead of kicking a 1-point field goal, they decided to try for a two-point conversion. This decision was followed by an interception by Favre that resulted in a touchdown for the Jets, shifting the score again 22-13. Favre holding his arm in pain toward the last three minutes of the game caused even more tension for the Vikings. However Favre didn’t let us down, and completed a major pass to wide receiver Percy Harvin, bringing the score to 22-20. With less than two minutes left in the game, the Jets made some lacking plays causing a quick turnover. This tension increased significantly when the chance for the Vikings to make a comeback and win the game came into sight. It all came down to whether or not Favre was ready to win the game. Weak decision making came up once again for Favre unsurprisingly when he decided to throw the ball before he was sacked. This decision caused a Jets teammate to easily catch the ball and return it, only running a few yards into the end zone, thus causing the final score of the game to be 29-20.
Making it to the semi-finals in the 2009 NFC Championship should have Minnesota thirsty for the Super Bowl XLV title, but with their sad record of 1-3, it shows that the Vikings need to get things together fast. It’s hard to understand why we lose so often when we have one of the greatest quarterbacks in football history (Brett Favre) and a star running back (Adrian Peterson). This poor season has reminded Vikings fans of the previous seasons before we had Favre. The Vikings have never been the best team, but we were able to see a glimpse of hope with the gain of our new quarterback last season and this season. When asked about the Vikings current season, Senior at Mayo High School, Jake Babcock was quick to express his feelings with only two words, “we suck.” As if it wasn’t for the great number of loses already, our “great quarterback” is showing little hope for a Vikings super bowl. “This individual game wasn’t only Brett Favre’s fault, but he was a major contributor,” Babcock continued.” We can only hope that this season will turn around and we can make it to where we were last year once again.

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