The Green Bay Packers beat up the Saint Louis Rams to improve to 2-1 on Sunday and the Minnesota Vikings, sporting former Packer QB Brett Favre, remain undefeated at 3-0. Now, next Monday night, the two sides will clash with the clear early lead for North Division dominance on the line. If Favre and the [...]
While most Vikings fans and sports writers are salivating over the prospect of signing Hall of Fame QB Brett Favre to the purple’s roster, I remain adamant on this much: I don’t want him in purple. Ten years ago? Sure. Five years ago? Maybe. Now? No way. At 39 and soon 40, Favre is over-the-hill, [...]
The details of the NFL salary cap get more complex all the time, enough to fill up several SD cards, but one thing is clear after the NFL bumped up the salary cap from $123 million to $127 million over the weekend: the Vikings have plenty of money to sign their draftees, Antoine Winfield and [...]
There will be no easy and obvious fixes for the Minnesota Vikings at QB this off-season. First, the free agent field is rife with overvalued and unproven young guns, as well as over-the-hill journeymen. There are few obvious candidates who could come in and be, say, Joe Montana in his prime. If they were that [...]
Vikings defensive coordinator Leslie Frazier interviewed for three coaching vacancies over the last couple weeks, but did not end up as the final choice at any of those locations; now Frazier says he’s done looking this year. Of course, it’s not like Frazier’s fall-back position is to sell horse supplies at a veterinarian retailer, either. [...]
When push came to shove, Tavaris Jackson and the Minnesota Vikings receiving corps reverted to form and blew it big-time against the sixth-seeded Philadelphia Eagles in the first-round playoff game that the Vikings should have won. Minnesota proved to be as reliable as a liability-only car insurance policy after an accident; it left the owner [...]
The Minnesota Vikings took until the last drive and the final five seconds of the game, but a 50-yard field goal by Ryan Longwell broke a long-standing dry streak as the Minnesota Vikings took the NFC North division championship for the first time since 2000, and made the playoffs for the first time since before [...]
After several seasons of being one of the worst road teams in the NFL, the Minnesota Vikings today whupped the Arizona Cardinals but good, right there in Sun Devil Stadium. That makes four important road wins this season for the Vikings, which is probably more than they have accumulated in the last two seasons combined [...]
After a frustrating first quarter, Vikings QB Gus Frerotte rallied past the negatives of his advanced age and lack of mobility to overachieve and reach a new season-best performance on Sunday night against the Chicago Bears, a performance worthy of at least a thank-you gift of replica watches. After Chicago took a 7-0 lead in [...]
The Metrodome is a place where there’s little need for outdoor lighting, but something is lacking as I’m listening to the Vikings-Bears clash at the Metrodome on the radio right now. As I write this, Chicago is up on the Vikes, 7-0, and are driving the ball again. Of course, in my opinion, this situation [...]
The Minnesota Vikings enjoyed a post-bye-week victory over the Houston Texans and gained a game on Green Bay in the NFC North race today, with a 28-21 win. After a win streak apparently on a diet pill this season, the Nordic warriors needed a “W” after a disappointing but hard-fought loss to Chicago going into [...]
People were keeping a close eye on their Guess watches today as time ticked off the clock in the Bears-Vikings clash at Soldier Field in Chicago. It was a high-scoring affair that left each team counter-punching the other most of the way. In the end, though, it was Gus Frerotte’s fourth interception, the fourteenth turnover [...]
