Remember: It could always be worse! Revisiting the Metrodome Collapse
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Before 2020, it felt as if 2010 was the worst year ever. A year after the Minnesota Vikings were THIS close to the first Super Bowl in my lifetime (being born/congealing in the urinal trough at the Metrodome in 1984). It was a fairytale season in which former Packers quarterback Brett Favre joined the team and was as special as ever, which made former talking Hamburger John Madden literally retire that year because his doctors feared he’d spontaneously combust if he saw Favre having “all that fun out there”.
2010, though, was the flip-side. If 2009 was a fairytale, 2010 was it’s unhappy ending. If 2009 was like your childhood dog… 2010 was like that dog when you argued with your parents that he shouldn’t be put to sleep while you went to college. Just leaving shit everywhere and making everyone who saw it think they’d made a mistake pushing it that extra year.
Everything in 2010 was bad, but things came to a hilariously apt peak when the Metrodome collapsed during a blizzard. What made matters worse is that the Dome (as us cool people called it) was already planned to be imploded, so the repairs to the roof (that cost in the eight figures) would basically be as big of a waste of money as buying a XFL jersey.
Apparently the Minnesota Vikings put together a documentary of sorts about the Dome’s collapse. It is definitely worth a watch if you want to remember that while 2020 is bad, it could be much, much worse.
Sigh.
That was perhaps the most Vikings thing ever in the most Vikings of seasons ever. Leave it to the Vikings to break Favre’s incredible start streak, in a meaningless game at a frozen TCF Bank stadium in a season that Favre was guilted into.
We should all buy tons of Copper socks to alleviate our collective guilt. Because nothing says comfortable socks like rigid, tarnishable metal!