MNF Madness: Saints-Vikings

Just an absurd game tonight in the Bayou. In the first half, the hometown Saints outgained the Vikings by a 5 to 1 margin in the first half, only to be down 17-10. Credit Martin Grammatica for a hopelessly bad field goal attempt that was blocked and returned for a touchdown, as well as some breathtakingly bad moments from the skill position players.In the second half, it got really freaking weird. The Vikings decided to punt to Reggie Bush, despite the fact that he took two of them (!) to the house, and might have had a third if he could have kept his feet. Gus Frerotte (!) then came back after nearly being decapitated to throw a long touchdown to Bernard Berrian, on a play where Berrian almost got killed by his own teammate on a simultaneous double post pattern. The Saints were penalized 17 times. Grammatica came back after the blocked kick to hit from 53 yards away. Despite the high score, both defenses were absolutely murderous with the hitting, with Antonio Winfield becoming the...