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The words “crushed” and “blowout” get tossed out too often in pro sports by commentators and journalists looking to add some flair to a somewhat flair-less game. But when one team is up 31-0 at halftime, then pulls their starting quarterback in the third, only to go on ...

After watching last night’s debacle in Chicago, it’s hard to really put a finger on who is to blame. But, these columns only write themselves once in a while, so this one shouldn’t be impeded by such things as a losing effort by the entire team. Offensive line. For the ...

When Brett Favre first signed on in Minnesota, expatriated NFL analyst Adam Schefter “broke” the story of a schism in the Vikings’ locker room caused by the ancient gunslinger’s arrival in Eden Prairie. While a lot of the sports media grabbed onto this bone like a starv ...

Either the Minnesota Vikings are allergic to Sunday night games, or there are some serious problems with the newly crowned NFC North Division Champions. For the second time in three weeks, Minnesota played on the national stage of Sunday Night Football and had their col ...

Just when it seemed like Christmas at the Henderson household couldn’t have a darker shadow cast over it, Erin Henderson, younger brother of injured middle linebacker E.J., was suspended by the NFL for violating the league’s policy on performance enhancing substances. T ...

A brilliant old football coach once said “More football games are lost than won.” For those who don’t catch the play on words, what he meant was, one team will beat themselves with mental errors, miscues and penalties more often than a sound performance will trump anoth ...

The loss to the Arizona Cardinals wasn’t the worst thing to come out of Glendale, Arizona last weekend for the Minnesota Vikings and their fans. What could be worse than the donnybrook beating the Vikings took? The brutal injury to star middle linebacker E.J. Henderson ...

On December 14th, 2008 the Minnesota Vikings rolled into Glendale, Arizona and laid the smack down on the eventual NFC Champion Arizona Cardinals, soundly defeating them in a contest that seemed ridiculously one sided. On December 6th, 2009, the Vikings journeyed to t ...

Amidst the apparent blowout of the division rival Chicago Bears, the NFC North reigning champions played some sloppy football at times on Sunday, showing this team has yet to reach its full potential. With ten penalties for seventy yards, two fumbles (both by star runni ...

The NFL Channel has a revealing, and often funny, show called Sound FX where they mic up a player or coach for a game and then run the best sound bites the following week on the show. Last week’s episode featured the Vikings’ Brett Favre, mic’ed from the Lions game on N ...

TJ in the Housh Before all the Brett Favre to Minnesota hoopla began last spring, another big name free agent made a splash with a visit to the Vikings’ Eden Prairie digs amidst fanfare and pageantry. Granted there were no helicopters involved, but there’s only one Fa ...

While yesterday’s overall performance by the Minnesota Vikings wasn’t as glorious as fans had hoped for, emerging wide receiver Sydney Rice made his case to move into the lead dog spot on Minnesota’s depth chart. In fact, he became only the fourth Viking wide out in his ...

How often can a team claim a win when they never even take the field? Well, for Vikings fans who paid attention to the division rival Green Bay Packers this weekend, that’s exactly what happened. While it wasn’t the sort of “W” that adds up in that all important column, ...

Yesterday, the NFL Channel ran a very interesting stat comparison between Adrian Peterson and Percy Harvin over the last few games. As much as Peterson has done for the Vikings, it was surprising to see that Harvin has actually done more recently. In Sunday’s game again ...

His eleventh year out of Ohio State was promising to be his best. Going in to the week six game against the Baltimore Ravens, Antoine Winfield had amassed 28 solo tackles, 4 passes defensed and 1 interception. While those numbers don’t seem astronomical, take into accou ...

With the best running back in the game, a hall of fame QB and a few great men, the Vikings are giving notice they’ll be unleashing an assault on the rest of the NFL. Eighteen seconds into Monday Night Football, Adrian Peterson showed why Mike Mayock and many other expe ...

It was bound to happen, and it did; The Minnesota Vikings are spilt in two between having Sage Rosenfels and Tarvaris Jackson as the starting quarterback for the Vikings. Guess where Brett Favre stands? Nowhere because even though the Viking fans welcome him, and the p ...

Well the hoopa earlier this week is Brett Favre changed his mind yet again to play football for the Minnesota Vikings which ironcially is the same division the Green Bay Packers are in. I'm not slamming the fact that Brett Favre will head to the NFL Hall of Fame when h ...

Unless you’ve been hiding in a sports information Black Hole, you know that Brett Favre is now a Viking. While the information is still rolling in, let’s take a few minutes to extrapolate on the facts that are already available. Brett Favre, like most veterans, has no ...

When Brett Favre was signed to play for the New York Jets for the 2008 season, sparkles were flying all over The Big Apple. The best QB statistically to ever play in the NFL was now with the Jets. The thing is that the 2008 Jets started off hot but were well known for ...