Anderson and Andersen….
So I’m flipping through the channels tonight, and I land on NFL Network. What I found could not have been a greater discovery than that collection of 32 plastic NFL mini-helmets I bought at a sporting-goods store recently (I tried to collect those damn things out of those little grocery-store vending machines when I was younger, and I wound up with like 27 Bengals helmets and not much else).
Anyway, they were airing the impeccable “America’s Game” series, which began when NFL Films put together a one-hour documentary on each of the first 40 Super Bowl champions leading up to Super Bowl XLI (then have continued doing the documentaries for each subsequent champion). The documentaries feature interviews from three members of each Super Bowl champion and focus on the storylines (many of them comedic, enlightening and surprising) woven throughout each team’s title run.
Since NFL Films is one of God’s most notable creations, the documentaries are, needless to say, phenomenal. And they are accompanied by that wonderful NFL Films music that makes you want to drop the Cheetohs, set down the beer and make a blocking sled out of your dresser.
Well, they’ve started airing new “America’s Game” documentaries called “The Missing Rings,” which document some of the best teams in NFL history to not win it all.
And which team was featured on “The Missing Rings” when I tuned in tonight? You guessed it: The 1998 Minnesota Vikings, the only team to go 15-1 and not make the Super Bowl!
Boy, was that phenomenal. Anderson misses. Andersen makes. I need not say more.
