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Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Halloween special: Investigating the Vikings' curse with conspiracy theory researcher Zach Johnson

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Sports, Fantasy Sports, Football

4.8907 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

In an extra spooky episode, Matthew Coller gets together with Zach Johnson of the Crackpot podcast to deep dive into sports curses and whether there's actual evidence that the Minnesota Vikings' franchise is cursed. Zach discovers that the Vikings lost the NFL championship trophy, which may be at the root cause of their woes. Do most people believe in curses? How did other franchises overcome them? Should Vikings fans really believe they are cursed? Zach goes deep into the history of sports and beyond to tell us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What else can give you a wave of goosebumps like this?

0:04.0

This is history, two men with legacies on the line.

0:07.0

And then send you into a state of complete euphoria.

0:10.0

An adulteration, Titanovarity, that's starting from breach, two goals in the... The of his all in the dark. Will it be his last? Thank you so much.

0:25.0

T.N. Sports, only sport can do this. Hello welcome to another episode of Purple Inside, a Matthew College here and this one is a spooky special with Halloween coming up and also a topic that we discuss all the time,

0:58.0

sort of vaguely here and there and we say,

1:00.6

are the Minnesota Vikings cursed because of all the things that tend to go wrong?

1:06.1

And so I decided after asking this question to enough guests and getting enough opinions,

1:10.7

that we needed an expert on the show.

1:13.0

So I am bringing in Zach Johnson of the Crackpot

1:18.0

podcast where on the show you guys break down conspiracy theories you do not perpetuate

1:24.4

conspiracy theories is very important you research them you analyze

1:29.4

them and occasionally you make fun of them and also Zach you are a Minnesotan you have followed the Minnesota Vikings for a long time and so over the last few days you have spent your time researching whether the Minnesota Vikings are indeed actually cursed and I'm really

1:44.3

excited to talk about this. Welcome to the show. Thank you so much. Huge honor to be here, big

1:49.4

fan of the show. And I will say also Matthew, this is probably the most normal thing I've looked into in probably the last couple of weeks in terms of conspiracy theory.

1:56.8

So this was this was pretty run of the mill in terms of some of the stuff we've looked at which is good. It's refreshing. I'll say'll say that much yeah I'm not going to get

2:04.0

into some of the stuff that you guys look into but you you are brave you are brave

2:09.0

gentlemen on the crackpot podcast to go deep diving into all sorts of crazy stuff but it's fascinating I was on your

2:16.0

show once and we talked about Tom Brady theories and referees and all sorts of different things

2:21.7

but we didn't get deep into the idea that the Vikings are cursed.

2:26.1

Now, they have had their luck swing both ways this year, but historically there are many,

2:33.0

that would go against all possibilities statistically.

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