Category: Minnesota Vikings
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Monday, May 14th, 2012
Minnesota Vikings spent the last few years increasingly worried about whether or not their team would pick up and move. Who could blame them? Minnesota folks already saw the departure of the Lakers and North Stars and for a while it appeared the Vikings would be next. Instead, owner Zygi ...
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Wednesday, May 9th, 2012
He's a gentleman and a scholar, and for at least another year, one of the NFL's better interior offensive lineman. Longtime Vikings and Ravens center, Matt Birk, has refuted the media created rumors that he'd be hanging it up after this past season and is instead extending what has already ...
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Friday, April 27th, 2012
It didn't take long for trades to become a huge part of the NFL Draft on Thursday night. Everyone knew that Indianapolis would take Andrew Luck with the No. 1 overall pick and Washington was set to take Robert Griffin III second. After that, it became a bit of a ...
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Wednesday, April 25th, 2012
Christian Ponder is coming off a rocky rookie season in Minnesota during which he performed at a level somewhere in the wide range that separated offensive rookie of the year Cam Newton and punch line Blaine Gabbert. But the Vikings won only three games and Ponder had as many interceptions ...
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Wednesday, April 18th, 2012
In regard to the New Orleans bounty scandal, no game is referenced as often as the 2009 NFC championship tilt between the Saints and Vikings. You know, the one in which Brett Favre was nearly decapitated by super-aggressive Saints defenders. Jared Allen had a sideline view of the barrage of hits ...
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Tuesday, February 14th, 2012
Chris Doleman finally got his call into the NFL Hall of Fame two weeks ago after a long wait that he didn't quite understand. Doleman had 150.5 career sacks becoming the third consecutive NFC North pass-rusher to earn a call to Canton after Richard Dent was selected in 2011 and ...
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Wednesday, January 18th, 2012
There wasn't a whole lot to get excited about as a Minnesota Vikings fan this season. The Donovan McNabb experience didn't work out, Adrian Peterson was injured at various points throughout the season, and the Vikings finished with a 3-13 record. If there was a bright spot, it was defensive ...
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Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012
Jared Allen finished the 2011 season with 22 sacks, just one-half sack away from tying Michael Strahan's NFL single-season sack record. The talented veteran defensive end for the Minnesota Vikings had 3½ sacks of Josh McCown in the first 40 minutes of the game against the Chicago Bears in Week ...
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Monday, November 14th, 2011
Christian Ponder caught many NFL fans by surprise in his first career start for the Minnesota Vikings. The former Florida State quarterback held his own in Minnesota's 33-27 loss to the Green Bay Packers in the Metrodome two weeks ago, throwing for 219 yards with 2 touchdowns and 2 interceptions
Monday ...
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Thursday, November 3rd, 2011
Leslie Frazier didn't expect his Minnesota Vikings squad to be 2-6 going into the bye week, but he has got to be encouraged by the strides his team has made in the last two weeks. The Donovan McNabb experiment may not have been a success in the Twin Cities, but ...
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