They lost in the Superbowl. But I'm not sure that losing the Superbowl had anything to do with leaving the players in for too long. I don't seem to remember them suffering any serious injuries.

Yeah, if I was a Viking fan, I think I'd be upset that they risked injury to Farve that way. However, I'm not a Vikings fan and I won't lose any sleep over a team running up the score on the Cowboys. It couldn't happen to a nicer team. The Cowboys used to do that to the Eagles all the time back in the Tom Landry days.