History of the Minnesota Vikings
Aug 2, 2023 18:42:59 GMT -6
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In "History of the Minnesota Vikings," Jon Bois, Secret Base tackle team's glorious, groanworthy saga.
MINNEAPOLIS -- Documentarian Jon Bois, whose latest project chronicles the history of the Minnesota Vikings, guarantees the oft-beleaguered team will win a Super Bowl someday. But to Bois, a Lombardi trophy is not really all that important to the team's story.
"I guarantee they will, they absolutely will. Law of averages. On a long enough timeline, they absolutely will. And it could happen sooner than we think," he said. "But then there's the nice sort of like further caveat of that, which is that if you get to call yourself the Minnesota Vikings, if you get to point to all these amazing people and stories in your history, then like, how special is the Super Bowl, really? You've already won. I know this is not like what a Vikings fan necessarily wants to hear, but from my perspective, you've won already."
"The History of the Minnesota Vikings" is the third in a series Bois created with his partner Alex Rubenstein for Secret Base, an offshoot of sports website SBNation. The first two covered the Seattle Mariners and the Atlanta Falcons. It was during that Falcons documentary the idea for the Vikings series first came about.
The common thread tying together the Falcons, Mariners and Vikings is a lack of championships, of course. But what these teams lack in ultimate success they make up for in highlights, lowlights, hijinks, heroes and losers.
"What attracts us to a particular franchise is not how many wins they've racked up, how many championships they've won, it's how many stories they have to tell and how many fascinating personalities they have to offer," Bois said. "Any team can win a Super Bowl, but only one team gets to call themselves the Minnesota Vikings. And I hope that means a lot coming from an outsider, somebody who, I am not a Vikings fan, I'm a Chiefs fan, but I see so much beauty in the Vikings story that I can't look away from it."
www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/jon-bois-secret-base-history-of-the-minnesota-vikings/
MINNEAPOLIS -- Documentarian Jon Bois, whose latest project chronicles the history of the Minnesota Vikings, guarantees the oft-beleaguered team will win a Super Bowl someday. But to Bois, a Lombardi trophy is not really all that important to the team's story.
"I guarantee they will, they absolutely will. Law of averages. On a long enough timeline, they absolutely will. And it could happen sooner than we think," he said. "But then there's the nice sort of like further caveat of that, which is that if you get to call yourself the Minnesota Vikings, if you get to point to all these amazing people and stories in your history, then like, how special is the Super Bowl, really? You've already won. I know this is not like what a Vikings fan necessarily wants to hear, but from my perspective, you've won already."
"The History of the Minnesota Vikings" is the third in a series Bois created with his partner Alex Rubenstein for Secret Base, an offshoot of sports website SBNation. The first two covered the Seattle Mariners and the Atlanta Falcons. It was during that Falcons documentary the idea for the Vikings series first came about.
The common thread tying together the Falcons, Mariners and Vikings is a lack of championships, of course. But what these teams lack in ultimate success they make up for in highlights, lowlights, hijinks, heroes and losers.
"What attracts us to a particular franchise is not how many wins they've racked up, how many championships they've won, it's how many stories they have to tell and how many fascinating personalities they have to offer," Bois said. "Any team can win a Super Bowl, but only one team gets to call themselves the Minnesota Vikings. And I hope that means a lot coming from an outsider, somebody who, I am not a Vikings fan, I'm a Chiefs fan, but I see so much beauty in the Vikings story that I can't look away from it."
www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/jon-bois-secret-base-history-of-the-minnesota-vikings/
