4 unlikely Super Bowl matchups we’d love to see
By Ryan Brown
1. Buffalo Bills vs. Minnesota Vikings
This matchup was picked as the most unlikely Super Bowl we’d like to see for a couple reasons.
On paper, this doesn’t look like the most exciting game. But look a little deeper and there are plenty of storylines to see.
First of all is the history of each of these teams in the Super Bowl. Both the Bills and Vikings are 0-4 in Super Bowls, the Vikings losing all of theirs in the 1970s and the Bills losing four in a row in the early 1990s. Only three other teams have played in multiple Super Bowls and lost them all, Carolina, Atlanta, and Cincinnati. All three are only 0-2 in Super Bowls though.
Regardless of what happened in this game, one of these franchises would finally get their coveted Super Bowl victory. The other would be left in heartbreak with a 0-5 record, tying the most losses in a Super Bowl (New England and Denver, the other teams with five losses, have a combined nine wins to go with their losses).
For the Vikings to make it, it would mean Kirk Cousins silencing many of his doubters by leading his team, along with star running back Dalvin Cook, to three straight road wins against the Saints, 49ers, and finally either the Packers, Seahawks, or Eagles.
For the Bills, the defense would likely provide a lot more help than the Vikings defense would for them. Second-year quarterback Josh Allen would either be carried to a Super Bowl, or more likely, he would prove himself to be a talented young passer who can limit mistakes and do what needs to be done to help his team win.
Never before has two wild card teams made the Super Bowl. If both of these teams managed to face each other in February, it would certainly make history.