Remember: It could always be worse! Revisiting the Metrodome Collapse

Before 2020, it felt as if 2010 was the worst year ever. A year after the Minnesota Vikings were THIS close to the first Super Bowl in my lifetime (being born/congealing in the urinal trough at the Metrodome in 1984). It was a fairytale season in which former Packers quarterback Brett Favre joined the team and was as special as ever, which made former talking Hamburger John Madden literally retire that year because his doctors feared he’d spontaneously combust if he saw Favre having “all that fun out there”.

2010, though, was the flip-side. If 2009 was a fairytale, 2010 was it’s unhappy ending. If 2009 was like your childhood dog… 2010 was like that dog when you argued with your parents that…