A Viking Who Lives in Green Bay California, Rooting For The Steelers to Win

ChicoER ^ | 2/5/11 | OneVike

[OneVike]

Everyone who knows me, know I am a Minnesota Viking fan, thus my handle "OneVike".

Well it has been a long road for us Viking fans and ever since I watched them lose Super Bowl XII to the Oakland Raiders on Jan 9, 1977, I and many Viking fans have been waiting for them to return to the big game. In the mean time we have had to suffer through numerous close calls that has had them at the very brink of returning, just to fall short. Then came the Favre situation where we were forced to endure watching the man we grew to hate, take our team to the brink of the Super Bowl again, just to choke in the NFC championship. Again us Viking had to endure watching another team we should have beat take home our trophy.

Well, here we are, the day before the Super Bowl and us Viking fans are destined to watch two teams we have good reason to dislike, some if us just hate them both. Well, growing up Duluth Minnesota in the 60's meant that the Packers ruled the roost for most of my childhood. Then a new team came along and gave me a reason to hold my head up in pride. The Norseman we call the Vikings, would become the dominant team of the black and blue division of the NFC.

Much of what I am sharing with you will be posted in an article I am writing for my site with the ER, but this one is targeted especially for my Freeper friends. As many of you know, I write a blog for the ER, and it is currently the number one blog in Chico and Oroville California.

As for the reason I am posting a link to a poll from a newspaper that most around the country could care less about, well it's because Aaron Rodgers is a homeboy from Chico. He went to Pleasant valley High School, plus Butte College which is but 20 miles from Chico. Aaron Rodgers, the local boy who could not even get a look by any big colleges for a scholarship. He persevered though by going to Butte a local community college and becoming a standout who was eventually noticed by the Cal bears of Berkley. Berkley is the town Chico is often times compared to.

Interestingly his High School sport teams mascot is a Viking. You would think I would fit right in and join the rooting of their sports team, and for many years after i moved here in 1988 I have. Then Aaron was drafted by the Green Bay Packers. I knew he was good, and I was angry at the 49ers for not drafting him. Reality is it was the best thing that happened for him, because the 49ers had a lot of problems, and Aaron was able to study behind Favre.

So here I am living in Chico California, a die hard Minnesota Viking fan who despises the Green Bay Packers. Oh I have tried to step away from football a few times, but trying to quit the NFL is more difficult than quitting heroin. So I still watch football, but now I watch it in Green Bay California. No getting away from the team that half my friends rooted for when I was a child. A team whom I am constantly reminded has won 3 Superbowls, while the Viking have none.

Everywhere I go I see Packer fans wearing those god awful green jersey with that lame logo, a "G". Ask them and they don't even know what the G stands for, but it matters not because Rodgers is the new Bart Star who is going to put a steak in the hated legend that was Bret Favre. Even at church I cannot get away from it, because Aaron Rogers will be mentioned in a sermon as he was last week when the senior Pastor mentioned it in a message about perseverance and keeping the faith. Well, I am asking my fellow Freepers a favor today. Please go to the poll which is on the front page of my hometown newspaper that I have linked to and vote that the Steelers will win. It matters not that you may want Green Bay to win. I just want someway to show my displeasure with all the Green Bay talk I am being forced to endure. Two years of Favre at the helm of the Vikings, and now this. There is just so much a man can stand, and I am drawing the line today. Imagine if thousands of voters chose Steelers over the home boys team the packers in his home town? You will make this old man smile as they wonder why no one wants Green bay to win.

Then if you want, stop by my blog, GATE,and give me a hit. I know, I am shamelessly pimping my blog but considering the humiliation I must endure in Green Bay California, it's the least you could do for a fellow Freeper from Duluth who finds himself living amongst the enemy.

[OneVike]

Go Steelers, because I hate the Packers more.

Sorry Soldierdad, but I figure I can support the home boy Aaron, but just root against the war they are waging against the Steelers. For the liberals of Chico, they should easily understand it since they have had practice loving the soldier while rooting for their mission to fail for the last 9 years.

[OneVike]

Poll Ping!

Help me destroy this poll by voting for the Steelers against the Packers. I seemed to have moved to green bay, and it was bad enough I had to put up with all the leftists in this liberal town, now I have to deal with packer fans because Chico is Aaron Rodgers home town. Nothing against him personally, but I really loath the packers. So help me out with this poll on the front page of the ChicoER which I write my blog for. It would be a small victory, but a victory is a victory, and I'll take it any way I can. ..............

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[Colonel_Flagg]

No, we're not. I have no desire to watch the NFL's two favorite teams play, so we're spending a family Sunday. I loathe both teams -- so I'm taking the day off. I suggest you do the same.

[big'ol_freeper]

Go Pack Go!!!

[CMailBag]

[CMailBag]

[OneVike]

phlattt!

LOL :>)

[UB355]

Which team will win Super Bowl XLV?
Total Votes = 258
Green Bay Packers.
213 Votes, or 82.55 %
Pittsburgh Steelers.
29 Votes, or 11.24 %
Don’t know.
4 Votes, or 1.550 %
Don’t care.
12 Votes, or 4.651 %

I was honored to vote in your poll. Go Packers !!

[OneVike]

I was honored to vote in your poll. Go Packers !!

But you are supposed to vote for the Steelers to mess up the liberal newspapers poll. Hey you can like them, just vote against them for me.

[Breto]

Sports; the opiate of the masses ... give them their sex, booze, and sports then you can do anything you want to them......

[BenKenobi]

At least their QB isn’t a rapist.

[Oldpuppymax]

Super Bowl XII??? That was Dallas over Denver. We kicked Dallas’ but the next year in Super Bowl XIII!

[OneVike]

Sports; the opiate of the masses ... give them their sex, booze, and sports then you can do anything you want to them

I have been saying that for years. It is a fact that the Roman empire had coliseums and theaters to keep the masses amused, Greek word. A means not to do something. used means to think. Translation, keep the people from thinking.

Why? Because 85% of the Roman empire were slaves, and the vast majority of the other 15% had no say so in what would happen. So the Empire kept them from thinking about their miserable existence. It worked for a millennium.

[PA Engineer]

That was easy for me.



Glad to be of help.

[OneVike]

I knew someone around here was thinking logically.

Thanks.

[badgerlandjim]

Just canceled you out! LOL. GOPACKGO!!

[RebelTex]

Ok, OneVike - just voted for Steelers.

Not gonna root for them, though. Don’t want them to have 2 more SB rings than my Cowboys. We’ll be catching up to them soon, heheh.

Now ya owe me one. Y’or gonna have to root for the ‘Boys for all of next season, LOL.

;^D

[OneVike]

Considering we do not play each other in the regular season, I promise to root for the boys every week.

As for the playoffs, I do not see us meeting, but if we do, I will worry about that broken promise then....LOL

<:)

[goseminoles]

“At least their QB isn?t a rapist”

Tired of seeing this. He wasn’t charged, convicted, or jailed.

GO STEELERS!!

[editor-surveyor]

I really loath the steelers!

Go Packers!