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Mackey & Judd -- a Minnesota Sports Podcast

FEATURED: Ryan Longwell Shares Memories of 2009

Mackey & Judd -- a Minnesota Sports Podcast

SKOR North | Hubbard Radio

Minnesota Wild, Football, Minnesota Twins, Basketball, Minnesota Sports, Minnesota, Minnesota Timberwolves, Minnesota Vikings, Sports

4.5755 Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2018

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Former Vikings kicker Ryan Longwell joins Mackey & Judd to share some memories of the 2009 NFC Championship Game in New Orleans, his experience with Brett Favre in Minnesota, and his opinions of Brad Childress as a head coach.

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0:00.0

a guy that we haven't talked to in a few years on this show, but he was one of the best

0:03.7

kickers in the NFL for a long time, Green Bay and Vikings.

0:07.4

Ryan Longwell, how's it going, Ryan?

0:09.9

Very well. Thanks for having me, guys.

0:11.7

Thank you, sir. Appreciate that.

0:13.2

So we're calling it the Vikings voyage for vindication this week, which, like we just said,

0:19.3

players in the locker room don't really care because they weren't around for that 09 game against the Saints.

0:23.7

But the Vikings could, in theory, get vindication against the Saints as a franchise, Falcons, if that plays out, and maybe Steelers.

0:31.1

So what do you remember most about that championship game against the Saints?

0:40.3

What stands out when you think back to the peak moments and the low moments in that game? Like, when you reminisce or do you just try to

0:44.8

avoid it mentally altogether, Ryan? Yeah, I mean, I think it's funny how like kind of life happens,

0:50.5

but to this day, you know, Sarah and the kids went to that game. And to this day,

0:55.9

because of that game, my kids think, like, New Orleans is the worst city on the planet.

1:01.0

Like, they don't want anything to do with it because of that game. So, I mean, my memories,

1:06.3

I mean, I have a couple of them, but, you know, obviously one of them is the phone before

1:10.2

halftime. I mean, I thought that was putting the game away, which, you know, obviously one of them is the fumble before halftime.

1:11.0

I mean, I thought that was putting the game away, which, you know, you're going at

1:15.1

halftime with not as much momentum.

1:17.6

And then driving down at the end of the game, you know, I mean, I remember what I was thinking.

1:23.1

I remember what I was feeling and I remember I was feeling, you know, in all circumstances, one of the

1:28.7

biggest kicks of your life, I was feeling actually really, really calm. So, I mean, I felt like

1:32.4

I was, you know, really confident. And then obviously it doesn't go our way. And so, and then

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