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Childress Trusts Sage to Start Preseason Game 1
August 14, 2009 by
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Brad Childress has chosen Sage Rosenfels to start the first game of the exhibition season Friday night against the Colts. Prior statements by Chilly lead us to believe that Tarvaris Jackson will start game 2 regardless of how Sage looks in game 1.
Sage will have one huge advantage...
Cutler Threatening to Become a Pain in Chicago
August 13, 2009 by
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The love-affair between Jay Cutler and Chicago fans may still be in its first flushes, but the relationship between Cutler and his organization is already speeding straight for the rocks.
This has nothing to do with Cutler being a ***** either…in fact, the problem is exactly...
Training Camp Closes
August 12, 2009 by
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Brad Childress called off Wednesday afternoon’s practice, bringing training camp 2009 to an end. The team will leave for Indianapolis on Thursday and begin the exhibition season Friday night against the Colts.
The Vikings survived camp more-or-less intact health wise. The...
Vikings Flag Giveaway
August 12, 2009 by
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Let’s say you’re a huge Vikings fan, and you want to show everyone in your neighborhood just how committed you are to the team. You already tried painting yourself purple and running out in the street singing “Skol, Vikings” at the top of your lungs…...
Percy Harvin Dinged in Practice
August 12, 2009 by
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Practice tweets are useless…unless they give us a chance to panic over the health of one of our star players, as happened this morning when the tweets started rolling out about Percy Harvin’s injury. Judd Zulgad reported:
Percy Harvin is favoring his right shoulder after...
Useless Training Camp Tweet o’ the Day: Chip Scoggins
August 11, 2009 by
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From the Star-Trib’s Chip Scoggins aka The Guy Who Isn’t Judd Zulgad comes our UTCTOTD:
Sidney rice drops pass from jackson. Thinks that’s the first pass I’ve seen him drop in camp
Somebody needs to take away Chip’s Blackberry or iPhone or whatever the...
Vikings Flag Giveaway
August 11, 2009 by
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Let’s say you’re a huge Vikings fan, and you want to show everyone in your neighborhood just how committed you are to the team. You already tried painting yourself purple and running out in the street singing “Skol, Vikings” at the top of your lungs…...
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August 10, 2009 by
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Let Bobby Wade Decide
August 10, 2009 by
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No decision has yet been made on which quarterback will start Friday night’s exhibition opener against the Colts, this according to Vikings offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell.
“That’s not my job to come in here and tell you who the starting quarterback is,” Bevell...
Bummed About Favre? Console Yourself With a New Vikings Keychain.
August 09, 2009 by
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Wholesalekeychain.com has hooked me up with an assortment of terrific, officially licensed Vikings keychains. So I was finally able to toss out that old rubber monstrosity I had dangling from my key ring and replace it with a snappy leather keychain featuring a brightly-colored Vikings...
Bobby Wade Spills Beans on “QB Competition”
August 09, 2009 by
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It was funny when Bobby Wade sold out Brian Urlacher on his less-than-flattering comments about Jay Cutler. But it was not funny when Wade opened that big mouth of his and let spill his remarks about the quarterback competition in Minnesota.
Or should I call that, “lack of...
Randall McDaniel’s Hall of Fame Speech
August 09, 2009 by
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No embed code at NFL.com, but here’s a link to Randall McDaniel’s Hall of Fame acceptance speech. Not too many shout-outs, but he does at least mention Jerry Burns, and says he knows Jerry wasn’t thrilled about taking an undersized guard in the first round of the...
McDaniel’s Call to the Hall
August 08, 2009 by
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Randall McDaniel will be among those enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton Saturday night. The ceremony begins at 6 CT and will be televised on NFL Network. I can’t find any link to a live stream on NFL.com, which is sort of stupid. You’d think the...
Why So Coy, Chilly?
August 08, 2009 by
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Brad Childress is giving reporters the usual Chilly-style runaround when it comes to the on-going quarterback competition.
“I’m not slapping a grade on it,” Childress said of the Rosenfels/Jackson/Booty camp battle. “Obviously, [Tarvaris] had missed time so it wouldn’t...
T-Jack Pops His Knee, Says it’s Fine
August 08, 2009 by
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A wacky day of training camp - including a morning session that was forced indoors by bad weather, and an evening session attended by 4,000 fans who need to get a life - ended with yet another health scare for Tarvaris Jackson.
According to Access Vikings, Jackson had just thrown a...
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August 06, 2009 by
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In Case You Missed it…Mort Goes to Mankato
August 06, 2009 by
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For some reason, ESPN has decided to stick Chris Mortensen in a bus and ship him around the country doing interviews and bits at various training camps. I don’t know about you, but when I think entertainment, the first name that comes to mind is “Chris Mortensen.&...
Are the Packers Really After Michael Vick?
August 06, 2009 by
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Days after Ted Thompson refused to close the door on the possibility of the Packers pursuing Michael Vick, more stories are coming out that indicate the Pack is indeed at least taking a close look at the former Falcons Pro Bowler and latter-day poster-boy for how to ruin a perfectly...
The Return of T-Jack (Yawn)
August 06, 2009 by
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Tarvaris Jackson slapped a brace on his sprained knee and returned to the practice field on Wednesday, participating in most of the drills and saying afterward that he felt “fine.” Clearly, T-Jack didn’t want to miss any more time, and let Sage Rosenfels pull...
Useless Training Camp Tweet o’ the Day: Judd Zulgad
August 05, 2009 by
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Judd Zulgad of the Star-Trib provides us with today’s useless training camp tweet:
In late game situation, Edwards just put nice move on Loadholt.
Wow. Ray Edwards found someone he can burn. Unfortunately, it’s a guy on his own team, and it happened in a training camp...
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August 05, 2009 by
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League Says No to Percy Harvin’s Contract
August 05, 2009 by
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Percy Harvin’s five-year contract with the Vikings will have to be redone after the league rejected it, but the wide receiver will not have to miss any time on the practice field as a result.
No one’s quite sure what exactly the league objected to in Harvin’s contract...
Useless Training Camp Tweet o’ the Day
August 04, 2009 by
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Today’s useless training camp tweet comes to us courtesy of the Star-Trib’s Chip Scoggins, who moments ago tweeted the following:
Berrian collides with madieu williams on catch. Ripped his shirt in the process.
Who ripped their shirt? Berrian? Williams? Not only does...
Goodbye Aundrae Allison
August 04, 2009 by
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Drew Rosenhaus has used his Twitter account to inform us that his client Aundrae Allison will no longer be a member of the Minnesota Vikings. The team is seeking to trade the little-used wide receiver, a 2007 fifth-round pick out of East Carolina, and will release him if there are...
Seifert: “Suspicious Amount of Secrecy” Surrounding Tarvaris Jackson Injury
August 03, 2009 by
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Are the Vikings more worried about Tarvaris Jackson’s MCL sprain than they’re letting on? Kevin Seifert thinks there’s something at least a little fishy, as he expressed in this tweet:
Suspicious amount of secrecy for what is a supposed to be a mild injury, but...
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