Vikings 12 Steps

Step 1. We admitted we were powerless over the Vikings - that our lives had become unmanageable.

Step 2: We came to believe that winning a championship could restore us to sanity.

Step 3: We made a decision to turn the fate of the team over to Tice, as we understand him.

Step 4: We made a searching and fearless inventory of free agents and draft picks.

Step 5: We admitted to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of the wrongs of past Viking organizations.

Step 6: We were entirely ready to have Tice remove all these defects of coaching and substandard players.

Step 7: We humbly asked Tice to remove these shortcomings and replace them with difference makers.

Step 8: We made a list of all the persons we had blamed, and became willing to let them all make amends to us.

Step 9: We accept direct amends from such people wherever possible, except when they have had chronic injuries beyond reason like Roanell Smith.

Step 10: We continued to review Viking predictions of victory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.

Step 11: We sought through prayer and meditation to win a championship, or at least win the division, praying only for knowledge of his will and the power to carry that out.

Step 12: Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of the miserable failure of the Vikings this season, we will try to carry this message to Red, Tice, and the Vikings organization lest they repeat their failures next year.