Found August 18, 2009 on The Viking Age:
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The Vikings have a couple of really ticked-off back-up quarterbacks right now.  And they’re not trying all that hard to hide their irritation. “It’s something that wasn’t a total shock,” Sage Rosenfels said when asked about the Favre deal.  “Obviously this has been three months in the ongoing sort of thing. So for me personally this [...]
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