An Editorial by Luft Krigare

   I had posted a poll here on whether you would rather barely get into the playoffs with a 9-7 or 10-6 record or have the Brad Childress era of Minnesota Vikings football come to an end?  Thanks to everyone that gave their opinion and poll choice.

We all want good football and rooting for the team to win is what a fan does. Every Sunday, or every day we bleed for our team. Then to think that the best way to get better is to lose makes us shake our heads in disbelief. That is where the battle rages.

I want Minnesota Vikings head coach Childress gone yesterday (actually before the bye week), but that has yet to happen. I am tired of the bad and ultra conservative play calling, plus the myriad of mistakes that go towards “finding a new way to lose a game”.  Maybe like children taking foul tasting medicine, we need the losses to generate the firing so we can get better. Zygi and the rest of the Wilf clan must get over their infatuation with the man and let him go. The only way that will happen is via embarrassing losses, lots of them.

Winning is the "Catch 22". The way I figure it, the Vikes will need to win at minimum 6 of the last 9 games, and more like 7 of 9 (10-6 record). By doing that they will have been playing some pretty good ball and it will be that argument that will keep Chili on the sidelines. But the argument and truth of playing good winning football will also bolster the fan's notion that maybe the Vikings could go on a long run in the playoffs hoping for what has eluded the team since its inception.

It is a win on both ends of the spectrum. It is the middle we have to worry about. Lose a lot more games, Childress gets fired and we take that as a win, a foul tasting win but a win. Win a lot more games and make the playoffs hopefully going deep, we win. Landing somewhere in between those two points, no playoffs or 1 and out playoff performance and Childress coaches into the 2009 season means that we lose and the frustration continues.

We are probably stuck with Brad Childress the rest of the ’08 season for better or worse.  We Vikings fans bleed Purple so give us a win and stay away from the unacceptable middle.
(Stepping of the soap box now.)