February 24, 2005
Server Crash (The Moss Curse Starts!)

Shortly before noon on Thursday, the legions and legions of readers (cough, cough) that come to this blog daily for provocative insight into the world of Minnesota Vikings football were subjected to a whiteout. There was nothing more than a blank screen staring dumbly back at you. Just like the look on Brett Favre’s face after a six interception playoff football game (Jan. 20, 2002 against the Rams).

The whiteout was due to the fact that the Viking Underground and Greet Machine blogs were getting hit so hard from people searching for Moss news that they brought the University of Minnesota servers to their knees.

(Pause for artistic effect)

OK, the truth is the U of M’s library web servers crashed. One side effect was the crashing of PHP capabilities on the blog server. Any page that uses PHP (.phtml), such as the Viking Underground, no longer came up. But the issue has been resolved and I humbly apologize for any distress this may have caused you.

We now return to your regularly scheduled reading.

Posted by maasx003 at February 24, 2005 01:27 PM | TrackBack
Comments

How do you get seats in the back of the endzone? How many years as a season ticket holder does it take? Also what's the ballpark price on them, dare I ask?

Posted by: Vince at February 24, 2005 04:32 PM

Just luck and timing. The full story is buried somewhere on my blog. Just use the search function within my blog (on the right nav bar area) and do a search for Section 101 and you should find a lot of past entries where I talk about it.

Also did a story on ticket prices from the very beginning up until today. The story name was "Red How High can You Go?", or something like that. Again, do a search within my blog and you'll find the story. I think I'm paying $64 a ticket per game this year.

Posted by: Brian Maas at February 24, 2005 09:40 PM

Thanks for the help.

Posted by: Vince at February 25, 2005 11:33 AM

No problem Vince, if you don't find what you are looking for let me know. I did have a moment to look up my posted entries...try this one if you haven't already:

Dear Red: How High Can You Go? (Speaks of all the ticket price hikes since the early 90s)

http://blog.lib.umn.edu/maasx003/Vikings/013546.html

And thanks for visiting!

Posted by: Brian Maas at February 25, 2005 03:09 PM
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