Patience? No Viking fan I know has patience. I really like Wilf,
and he has spent a lot of money all ready to make this team
stronger. It just happened last year. Day to day decisions is not
what he hired other people for. It is there job. Childress is
getting the players he wants and the money being spent on those
players is overthetop. Money wasted in my opinion. Not exactly
Wilf's fault. He is keeping the tickets the same or lower this
upcoming year, what owner does that after being the 2nd from the
bottom in the NFL in money? No owner I know.

Give Wilf a break and a chance to fix the mistakes as they happen.
Childress might be a mistake, maybe he becomes a great head coach,
but it is Zygi's first hire. As for the stadium, he might pony up
more money than any owner in the history of sports just to get a
stadium deal. It is a joke that Minnesota is pushing the vikings
away, but any other owner would've given up by now the way he gets
treated by the government.


--- In novavikes@yahoogroups.com, vze243bi <vze243bi@...> wrote:
>
> BYLINE: by Bob Sansevere, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.
> BODY:
> Mar. 15--
>
> I was at home the other night watching TV. The phone rang. I picked
up
> and heard a familiar voice.
>
> "This is Zygi Wilf."
>
> He didn't call to make small talk.
>
> "I read your article," Wilf said. "And I felt you left a lot out."
>
> He was referring to a column in Tuesday's Pioneer Press in which I
wrote
> the Vikings are having a lousy month signing free agents and that
either
> people in the front office stink at their jobs or Wilf is so upset
he
> hasn't gotten a new stadium that he's hoarding his money instead of
> spending it on better free agents.
> "I certainly don't agree on most points," Wilf said.
>
> He said he was "very satisfied" with the additions of free agents
> Visanthe Shiancoe, Vinny Ciurciu and Bobby Wade and that the Vikings
> were "going to rely on free agency to supplement" their roster.
>
> "We'll build through the draft," Wilf said. "We'll add through the
> draft. The success of the franchise is based on the draft. That's
what
> separates the good teams from the bad teams. That you left out. I
was
> surprised. That's important in the development of the organization."
>
> He added, "For the first time, we have the organization that can
get the
> right picks and do the right things."
>
> He also offered me some advice, one Jersey guy to another: "You
have to
> think more like a Minnesotan. Minnesotans have patience. The key
thing
> is patience. That's a great thing in Minnesota."
>