The Curse of 1998: Part 5

The ole gunslinger is assisted off the field on January 24th, 2010.After a bit of a hiatus, we are back with the Curse of 1998, Part 5.

After the nascent Brad Childress years, the Minnesota Vikings had begun to turn the ship around after 5 consecutive seasons middling around the .500 mark with only one playoff appearance (after miraculously snagging a wildcard spot at 8-8).

2007 was the year the Vikings started to really come back into their own, almost exclusively on the back of the bewildering, record-setting rookie season of Adrian Peterson.

After nearly a half-decade of not really having a central figurehead in the locker room, Peterson gave the team life, despite the authoritarian rule of…