Archive for October, 2010

Get Your Predictions In

First off, one more huge congratulations to the weekly winner of our little Vikings Gab bragging rights competition.  Last week, “Jawswers” predicted the final score of the Cowboys game exactly. Can he repeat or will he be de-throned? Leave your predictions for Sunday Night’s game in the comments section of this post and I will [...]

Breaking Down The Injury Report

Here is the injury report as broken down by Judd Zulgad at Access Vikings:   Center John Sullivan likely will start for the Vikings on Sunday night against the Packers after missing the past two games because of a calf injury. Meanwhile, wide receiver Percy Harvin, who turned up on the injury report Thursday after [...]

Vikings Players Have Strong Words For The League

The hot topic (I find the conversation to be quite tedious and boring) this week has been the NFL’s “crackdown” on dangerous hits.  Heavy fines and possibly suspensions have been used as a threat to try and get rid of unnecessary injuries across the league. At first, the new emphasis on these rules was met [...]

Keep An Eye On The Weather

Sometimes I overlook the simple things in football and forget to even mention them.  But that is why I have the best Vikings fans in the world reading this blog… to remind me of those things.  So a huge thanks goes out to one of my many appreciated readers who goes by the name “Jon” [...]

Jared Allen Recommends The Pheasant Nuggets

Jared Allen has been relatively quiet this season, after an offseason in which the NFL made him alter his sack dance, he cut his hair for his wedding, and he attended his wedding which of course means he got married. With Vikings fans hoping that he can make a splash on Sunday against the Packers [...]

Injury Report At A Season High

On Thursday, the Vikings injury report lists more players than it has all year.  Twelve, to be exact. Percy Harvin and Ryan Cook were players added to the list on Thursday after getting a clean bill of health on Wednesday.  Harvin was limited with a new hamstring issue. Both Jimmy Kleinsasser (groin) and Lito Sheppard [...]

WEEK SEVEN: 10 Questions

Here is your weekly survey, let us know what you think: The Vikings have not done well in recent history when playing a night game, do you think the time of day which the Vikings play has an impact on performance?customer surveys Will the Vikings beat the Packers on Sunday Night?online surveys Is there any [...]

Pawlenty: New Stadium Is Likely

Minnesota’s Governor Tim Pawlenty will not be seeking reelection this year, but before he parts, he offered up some encouraging words in regards to the Vikings stadium situation. “I think it’s highly likely, highly likely to get done because it has to,” Pawlenty said of his successor’s chances of getting a stadium plan in place [...]

WEDNESDAY: 3 Sit, 7 limited

While the Vikings have not quite had to transfer their injury report to one of those Monty Python style scrolls like the Packers have had to do to ensure they have enough space to list everybody, but it seems like every week features a number of surprising additions. This week is no different. On Wednesday, [...]

Harvin Is Tops This Week

For the second time in his young career, Percy Harvin has won the honors of being the NFC’s special teams Player of the Week.  The excitement following his 95 yard touchdown return on the opening kickoff of the second half against Dallas on Sunday seemed to assist the Vikings in turning a corner, gaining some [...]