Nine years later, Vikings fans revel in Saints' 'what-if' NFC title game loss

Welcome to the Monday edition of The Cooler, where schadenfreude is the Minnesota equivalent of winning the Super Bowl. Let’s get to it.

Any NFL season that advances far enough that the Vikings are no longer playing while others still are — so basically, every season in almost my entire lifetime, given that I was 2 months old the last time the Vikings played in the Super Bowl — offers fans of the purple a lot of “lesser of two evils” propositions when picking a side to root for in a playoff game.

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