Bagadeez04
Cheesehead
As a New Yorker I can only watch from afar, but seems to me that this phenomenon is on the Vikings part a mix of getting good players to fill holes (as free agency is intended to be used), combined with intentionally taking away a good player from the franchise they hate/wish they could be. It really is an interesting thing, this Packer-Viking pillage.
The interesting question is...have the Vikings acquired a similar amount of free agents from other NFC N teams? I know the talent level on the Bears/Lions hasn't quite matched Green Bay over the last 20 years or so, but there have been good players there, and lots of opportunities for the Queens to "do the same thing" to a division foe. If they haven't done this, they pretty clearly have some kind of a complex with "sticking it" to the Pack. Kind of sad really...I kinda feel for Vikings fans who feel like they don't have their own tradition/identity.
The interesting question is...have the Vikings acquired a similar amount of free agents from other NFC N teams? I know the talent level on the Bears/Lions hasn't quite matched Green Bay over the last 20 years or so, but there have been good players there, and lots of opportunities for the Queens to "do the same thing" to a division foe. If they haven't done this, they pretty clearly have some kind of a complex with "sticking it" to the Pack. Kind of sad really...I kinda feel for Vikings fans who feel like they don't have their own tradition/identity.