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I have a ton of tapes of old Vikings games available. We are downsizing/selling our home (already have moved to South America for at least the next 18 months) and I have a box of tapes from my VCR/NFL Sunday Ticket days. I haven't watched the games in years, and my wife was ready to toss them, and I thought I would put this note out on VMB to see if anyone wants them. The earliest game is the 1986 Bears game. Then the 1987 games against the Cowboys and the classic 49'er playoff win. Follow that up with a couple 1994 games (Dolphins and Giants), half the 1996 games, and everything more or less from then on through 2009 (IIRC). Quality is mostly good.

The tapes are with me in Spokane WA. Obviously, if I were living in the Twin Cities area, it would be easy to get some other Vikings fan to drop by and pick them up. Those of you who know me from this group know I just don't want to toss away a resource like this if anyone else wants to relive the last couple decades of Vikings football. I'd send them to anyone who wants them for just the cost of postage - it's about a bookbox full. I'm more than happy to send them with a "satisfaction guaranteed" type of deal, where you don't worry about paying postage until you have looked at stuff. Heck, if you tell me you are donating the postage cost to a good charity cause, that will work for me too (it will be as if I was making the donation), since I won't be in the country to cash a check.

My apologies to the board if this isn't appropriate use of the board, or is in the wrong spot. I looked around for a while to see if there were problems with doing this, and I couldn't find any.

I'm not particularly interested but you might try converting those VHS tapes to files that you can keep on your computer.

Best of both worlds; you get to keep the games and your wife gets to keep the space! Then you could also share the games with anybody that wanted them easily over the internet as well.

http://www.google.com/search?q=vcr+to+P ... tartPage=1

As far as the rules go, I think this is an ok place for this post.

Hmm, how about the Thanksgiving game from 1998?
Do you have the 1987 playoff game in New Orleans?

And for the record, I think converting them is a great idea.

Oh wait a minute, do we have to buy them all? Im not sure I can do tht... how much would the postge be?

I don't have time to convert to digital format, not to mention that I don't have a VCR at the moment. I had a converter dongle, but the results weren't very good.

If no one wants them all, I can probably ship individual tapes and toss the rest. But as you might guess, it's not going to be time effective if I try to ship 20 tapes separately. That's why I'm looking for someone to take them all.

I'm not asking for payment. In a sense, the paying of postage is just a way of making sure that whoever gets them really wants them.

My guess is that the total postage will be around $20, as it can be sent as media mail (I just looked up the rules and prices).

I am pretty sure I have the Thanksgiving 1998 game (Moss with three 50-yard TD's). At some time, the New Orleans game from 1987 got taped over - I had it originally.