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Yes, ladies and gentlemen, even after I said that I wouldn't be getting the game after EA Sports made the announcement about who was going to be on the cover, with the changes the Vikings have made this season, I couldn't help but succumb to the annual madness that was the ...
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As you're well aware, The Daily Norseman might just be the finest damn blog that covers the Beloved Purple on this entire Interweb of ours. And as I'm sure you're also aware, it's also a part of the finest damn sports blog network anywhere. Right now I'd like to take a little time to promote some of SBNation's other outstanding NFL blogs, with an emphasis on those that will have ...
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Hey, remember yesterday when I said that Tarvaris Jackson's sprained MCL would most likely have him out of this Saturday's pre-season game with the Pittsburgh Steelers?
Of course you don't.
waves hand in front of you, Ben Kenobi-style
I never said Jackson would be out on Saturday. These are not the droids you are looking for.
Apparently, Brad Childress is preparing for ...
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Access Vikings is saying that the injury to Tarvaris Jackson is a sprained MCL, which is better than it could have been, I guess, but it's still a bad thing for a guy that's looked so good to this point of the pre-season.
The injury means that he's pretty much certain to miss Saturday's game against the Pittsburgh Steelers , which is crappy because the third game is generally the game where ...
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How many times do you think we heard that during the off-season this past year? A dozen? A hundred? A thousand? I'm not totally sure, either, but it was a lot.
Well. . .just for fun, here's the performances for the first two pre-season games from some of the quarterbacks that will be hanging around the rosters of NFC North teams this season. Prospective ...
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Childress: Jackson’s knee bruised
Judd Zulgad from the Star-Tribune is reporting that the knee injury to Tarvaris Jackson is a bruise. Jackson currently has a brace on the knee.
Hopefully it's nothing more serious than that.
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As it sits right now, we're about two hours away from kickoff of the Vikings' second pre-season football game, as they travel to Baltimore to take on the Ravens.
The starters are expected to play the entire first half this evening, and hopefully we'll see a continuing of the improvement of Tarvaris Jackson that he showed in last week's debut against Seattle. Adrian Peterson might even ...
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In case anyone has forgotten that Adrian Peterson is as great a man off of the football field as he is a player when he's on it, you need to check out the latest article by Grandpa Sports over at the Star-Tribune.
The headline alone. . . Peterson Says Poor Outings Were His Fault . . .is surprising enough in this day and age, but what AP has to say to Sid is pretty refreshing to hear.
"I ...
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Thanks to our friends over at Mile High Report, it was posted over in the FanPosts earlier today that Sirius NFL Radio was reporting that Bryant McKinnie would be suspended for the first four games of the 2008 season by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell.
(Man, check out THAT run-on sentence.)
I can't confirm whether or not anything was said there or not, largely because I don't have ...
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With the people at ESPN taking the opportunity on Monday night to fawn over Aaron Rodgers' every move (most of which were not really all that impressive), a few of the members of the NFL's best defensive line have thrown a few barbs the way of our neighbors from Wisconsin.
Pat Williams, the best run-stuffing defensive tackle in the league, was asked by a reporter if he had been keeping up ...
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Man. . .haven't been able to bust out the "New Blogs" heading for a while, but lo and behold, we have another Minnesota sports blog to keep an eye on, as we now have a blog dedicated to the WNBA's Minnesota Lynx.
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crickets
Nah, I'm only joking. SBNation tends to only put together blogs about things that people actually, you know, watch. Or care about.
To that ...
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As expected, the Vikings placed LB Heath Farwell and DE Jayme Mitchell on the injured reserve list today. Joining them on IR is G Mike Jones, who was also injured in the pre-season loss to Seattle.
To reload the roster, the Vikings have signed three more players . Those three players are Brian Norwell, a DE from Illinois that was originally signed as a UDFA by New England, Sean ...
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In what can generously be termed a severe
blow to the Beloved Purple, Brad Childress informed everyone
this afternoon that both LB Heath Farwell and DE Jayme Mitchell tore ACLs in Friday night's loss to Seattle and are done for the 2008 season. ...
Alrighty, the first pre-season game of the year is in the books, which means that we can officially look back on what went well and what didn't.
Let's clarify one thing before we get started. . .it's the first pre-season game. Therefore, it's too darn early to really judge anything, and it's certainly too darn early to panic. However, while we can't really judge anything in the ...
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Alright, ladies and gentlemen. . .in a couple of hours, we'll finally be able to behold the sight of Minnesota Vikings' football on the turf at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome.
(Or, in my case, I'll be listening to it on the internet somewhere. . .and THEN watching the replay on the NFL Network at 10:30 PM Central time. Either way, it's FOOTBALL, by God.)
The starters are expected ...
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After their acquisition of Brett Favre, the I-N-T-S
J-E-T-S Jets Jets Jets released Chad Pennington, who had
been their starter (when he was healthy) for the better part of the past 8 NFL seasons. Immediately after the move was announced, ...
A few little tidbits from various sources around the Interweb:
-Brian Robison had a procedure done to repair a varicose vein in his leg. He's expected to be out for a few weeks. In this interview , he mentions that the vein had been a problem "since he was in high school." This leads me to the obvious question. . .why in the heck did he not get it seen to during the ...
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Now that the main story of the past couple weeks is now officially, totally, and completely someone else's problem, let's get back to talking about a team that will actually be relevant on the NFL landscape in the 2008 season.
The Minnesota Vikings will induct John Randle into the team's Ring of Honor at halftime of their game against the Chicago Bears on 30 November.
Randle is #6 on the ...
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So sayeth Judd Zulgad at the Star-Tribune .
And so endeth Tamperin' Ted's Travellin' Salvation Show.
You know, I wish that I could even act surprised at this point about this development, but the reality is that anybody with an IQ greater than 5 knew all along that Ted Thompson was completely and utterly full of crap here. Once again, he wanted to do something to take the heat off ...
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How quaint .
Also available: Kate Hudson . Can we swing a deal for her instead?
Honestly, this whole situation has been a complete joke, from the charges filed against the Vikings by Tamperin' Ted's Travellin' Salvation Show to the way Roger Goodell has catered to the Green Bay Packers ("Hey, these things usually get signed within 24 hours, but I'll put it off for a while in ...
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