Category: Football

The Week 8 matchup against the Packers was a huge game for the Vikings. Favre’s homecoming to Green Bay obscured a lot of other reason’s the game was big. One was that the Vikings hadn’t won in Green Bay since 2005, which was before Childress and also the last time they swept the season series…

Last week I added a comment to my Week 6 review that the Ravens were the victim of the Karma Police. One could say the same about the Vikings this week. After two improbable victories over San Francisco and Baltimore the Vikings were due for luck to swing the other way.

Even before I saw today’s quote from Jared Allen I was going to open this post with “It’s better to be lucky than good”. Twice now the Vikings have run up a big lead only to let their opponent get back into the game by playing incredibly poor defense.

The Vikings fifth game of the season was a classic “trap” game. Emotional win over the Packers, short preparation week, and an inferior opponent. Additionally Viking fans are used to the team playing to the level of their opponent. What I found even more interesting is that that game turned out to be a duplication…

My review of Week 4 comes quite late but is worth reviewing as the 30-23 final was, and wasn\’t, as close as it sounds.

I’m not the first to say it, but I certainly thought it shortly after yesterday’s Vikings game: It’s nice to be on the winning side of one of those after all these years. In case you missed it, Brett Favre pulled off yet another miracle at the Metrodome, but this time it was for the…

See last week’s recap.

Had you asked me to predict the score of the Vikings vs. Browns game I might have said 34-13… which it would have been if not for the very late, garbage-time, touchdown by Cleveland. But I would have never guessed how the team would end up at that score. The game started oddly with the…

After the most interesting off-season in Vikings history, training camp in Mankato, the O.J.-esque coverage of Favre driving to Winter Park (with Chili acting as Al Cowlings no less), and 4 preseason games… the regular season for the 2009 Minnesota Vikings starts this Sunday. Expectations in Minnesota are as high as they’ve been in 10…

I bet Jay Glazer feels like an idiot. A day after backing off his story that several Minnesota Vikings players feel that Favre would be playing for the Vikings this year, the unthinkable happened. At this moment Brett Favre is practicing with the Vikings.