Super Sam Soars On NBC's Super Sunday!
Less than a year ago, Minnesota let Darnold walk after a 14-3 Pro Bowl season. Now, it's the Seahawks and Darnold at the top of the NFL mountain, and NBC should get every Super Bowl.
Quarterbacks, in the NFL, are 80% of your game - unless you don’t have one - then they’re 100% of your game... and nobody found that out more than the 2025 Minnesota Vikings. The Vikings have never won a Super Bowl in their history. They’re 0-4 in the big game, and haven’t been in one in 50 years.
Seattle just grabbed their second crown Sunday, they’re two for four, and they did it with a journeyman QB in his first season with the club.
The current Vikings boast a top flight and championship caliber defense, strong kicking game, and skilled offensive playmakers that would make Seattle and New England jealous, had everything a contender would want except one thing - they handed the leagues’ most expensive payroll to a young QB who hadn’t played an NFL down and who was coming off a torn meniscus that ended his rookie campaign before it started.
The Minnesota Vikings could have stayed with Sam Darnold. They didn’t. That decision took the Vikings out of contention. That decision reverberated through the building and made enemies of friends and put stress on the club. And that decision cost their GM Kwesi Adofo-Mensah his job.
Vikings head coach Kevin O’Connell skates on this one, but for anyone to think that a year ago, the reigning NFL coach of the year, the minted “QB Whisperer” who could get anyone, even Josh Dobbs to play the position (sort of …), didn’t have a HUGE say in who his QB was gonna be going forward, is smoking some good stuff. Yeah - KOC better get his shit straight and figure this one out and fast because… tick tock… tick tock…
It’s RalphStack, and I’m a lifelong Vikings fan, and this - this - this - is as dumb a move as I’ve ever seen with the team - and that’s saying a lot. But I watched yesterday as a fan - a Sam Darnold fan - hoping that he would take those next big steps. He did. Boy did he…
The game was the game was the game. New England, and Drake Maye, had things break pretty well in the AFC. No Lamar. No Josh. No Patrick. No Bo… The Patriots are a year or two ahead of schedule and looked more behind than that for most of the game. Seattle, a 5-point favorite, rolled to a double-digit win. Seattle was better plain and simple. Darnold made plays when he had to and took care of the ball. Boom.
And NBC showed why their NFL coverage is the best of the best - and there isn’t a second place.
I geek up for this every year. My business showing off it’s stuff on the biggest sports stage there is.
Let me take you through the day - the coverage - the SHOW! Because it’s the NFL on NBC - and nobody does it better.
