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Bitter story. 1972. Milwaukee Kickers. Bantams (U-12) 17-0 going into our last game. Lost to the Milwaukee Bavarians on a last second goal (My fault? Maybe, maybe not)

 

2nd place.

 

Milwaukee Kickers banquet------bupkus.

 

As it should have been.

 

Life lesson.

The Bavarian Inn in Milwaukee had an outstanding Friday Night Fish Fry, or so I remember as a kid going with my parents and Grandma. Classic Milwaukee night out and lots of old people. I remember always peaking my head through the crack to the banquet hall which had a huge moose head hanging on the wall. Used to freak me out. Funny the stuff you remember growing up.
Originally Posted by Blair Kiel:

Bitter story. 1972. Milwaukee Kickers. Bantams (U-12) 17-0 going into our last game. Lost to the Milwaukee Bavarians on a last second goal (My fault? Maybe, maybe not)

 

2nd place.

 

Milwaukee Kickers banquet------bupkus.

 

As it should have been.

 

Life lesson.

They had the banquet.  You just weren't invited, Sieve.  

Offseason Viking fans in full bloom (PFT posts)

 

Can you feel it?

Every piece is falling into place.

We are creating a dynasty in front of everyone’s eyes.

We officially have the best personnel and players on both sides of the ball.

We’ve officially drafted our franchise QB in Teddy Bridgewater who will be a top 5 QB next year – the historic Minnesota Vikings dynasty will officially begin.

We will be the first team to ever win a Super Bowl in our own stadium.

 
And....
 

In a few decades from now, the Lombardi trophy will be renamed as the Zimmer trophy.

We will win multiple superbowls.

We will soon be recognized as the greatest organization in all of sports.

Let the purple and gold confetti fall.

 
Being a Viking fan must truly suck. You cant draw on past success because its a barren wasteland of failure and you're putting your future faith in a guy that drafted Christian Ponder. So you start saying stupid things because it's the only thing left to do other than pain killers washed down with a case of fisherman beer. 

Au contraire.

 

Traveled to Sheffield England in 1974 as an undefeated hot-shot American soccer team.

 

Got throttled 7-nil in our first match (Sheffield Boys) and it was downhill from there.

 

Did attend both a United and a Wednesday match......will always have that going for me (as opposed to Goalline).

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On a day in Viking history in 2018, with the Vikings themselves in the stands, a new billion dollar stadium collapses at half time of a super bowl game.  The headlines will read "Vikings buried by half time".  Or people will marvel at how they built a stadium to match the team, noting that the stadium falls apart at the seems - like the team. 

YOriginally Posted by Blair Kiel:

As a Milwaukee Kicker, our youth Coach Don Shemmeld (Englishman) would annually give us a pep talk in his Yorkshire accent...."We've gought to beat the Ba-va-rians."

 

We seldom did.

 

 

Don Shimmeld was also my youth soccer coach. Metro soccer U-12 ish. We were in Muskego in the early 80s. His son played on the major team for our club (Muskego Britannic) along with Dave Dray (sp) and a bunch of other former I want to say UWM players. It was cool because they were all the counselor s at the Medalist soccer camp that I went to at St. John's.

 

i believe that Don passed on a few years ago. His son coaches I believe my dad said. My dad has been a ref in the Milwaukee area for around 40 years And that's seen every player and coach in the area. I know he enjoyed coaching with Don. Bernie Vossler was another guy from that area. Coach and ref in the area.

 

my memories of Don Simmeld were he brought gum and gave each of us a stick before the start of every game, he would yell "GIVE IT A BOOT RONNIE" whenever I was about to kick the ball And he would bring oranges for us at halftime. Great guy. thanks BK

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