and Oh, Hello welcome to another episode of Purple Inside or Inside TCO Performance Center and I'm

gonna make a noise to start the show and if you know this noise then you've been listening

for a long time.

Whoa. Then you've been listening for a long time. Uwahhuh.

Okay, if you have been listening to the show for a while,

you know that means Ben Gessling of the Star Tribune is here.

That's Ben Gessling's music.

To look into the crystal ball of the Minnesota Vikings.

You know, I look forward to this episode,

and we do probably what, a couple times a year

where we start to look forward.

I really look forward to this every single time Ben. So how are you?

Great to see you. Good to see you too. Should be fun. Always the crystal wall bit has

dates back a long time. But probably probably six seven years I would think okay so I

think the origin if I'm not well it had to be 17 because that's when Zem talked about a

crystal ball yes when Sam Bradford got hurt yep and then he went out and it was very mysterious I think it was after week one

and we kept asking as reporters want to do asking what's going on with Sam Bradford and he eventually just got flustered and said I don't

have a crystal ball and then I believe a local fortune teller sent him one yes

at some point that happened because then it that was the season that got really hot and it morphed into all of this talk about is the team cursed

Zimmer said I don't believe in curses and then it got into all of this I think there was like something about a wood spirit in there too.

There was all sorts of occult references

throughout the course of that mystical run

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