Vikings DE Jared Allen Mullet Video

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Vikings defensive end Jared Allen discusses his signature mullet and the accompanying lifestyle it demands in the NFLPA video on Youtube! Too funny!

Minnesota Vikings Player Power Rankings, Mid-Season Edition

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Excerpt: I really meant to do one of these back during the pre-season so that we'd have something to compare it to at this point, but I forgot to.  I apologize for that.  But, as usual, we'll have our mid-season version. . .conveniently designed to go along with the Vikings' bye week. . .and our post-season version to compare. I've done these for the past couple of seasons, after originally getting the idea from our friends over at Dawgs by Nature.  (See the 2007 mid-season and post-season versions, as well as the 2008 mid-season and post-season versions.)  These aren't official or anything,...

The Seven Good (and One Bad) of The Vikings After The Bye

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Excerpt: The Minnesota Vikings are 7-1, and after this weekend’s results, they’re clearly in the driver’s seat in the NFC North. So, the question is how’d they get there? Clearly, the massive upswing started one mid-August afternoon, when Brad Childress hopped into an SUV and finally delivered the Vikings a starting quarterback. Nobody believes that Sage Rosenfels or Tarvaris Jackson would be sitting at 7-1, but Brett Favre isn’t the only reason why the Vikings in control of their own destiny this season. Here’s a look at the seven things the Vikings have going right, and one thing...

Vikings Win Again, and They Didn’t Even Have to Play

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Excerpt: Well, the Vikings won this week without ever stepping on the field. Both the Bears and Packers fell this week. And they didn’t just fall, they collapsed and sucked it up against the Cardinals (a so-so team), and the Buccaneers (a terrible team). The Bears let Kurt Warner come back from a five-interception game (jokingly referred as that week’s best Jake Delhomme impression), to have a five-touchdown game. Meanwhile poor Matt Leinart showed again, that despite two-and-half-years to mature behind Warner, he’s still no better for it. At this rate Warner doesn’t have to worry about losing his job in the...

The Favre Drama: Our Fault, or His?

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Excerpt: The halfway point of the NFL season is preparing to be a faded afterthought for most NFL fans, and as we begin to usher in the latter half, media outlets are still being inundated with article, after article regarding Favre, and the drama that has become synonymous with the old graybeard gunslinger. Whether you’re a Viking fan basking in his unheralded talent to lead a team—any team it sometimes seems—to victory, or a Packers fan seething at his departure, and coined “betrayal”— classic—or if you’re just an innocent NFL bystander caught up in the melee centralized mainly in the NFC North,...

Brett Favre: The Saga Continues

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Excerpt: My response to an article written by a friend of mine, who is a die hard Packer fan.  You will have to read his before mine to understand how it started. A Brett Favre fan's rebuttal: Well said, Ben.  I commend the class and dignity in this article.  You spoke your mind without stepping over any line or boundary and you had me intrigued the whole way through. Allow me, if you will, to share my viewpoints on why I feel the boo’s that were represented on that field were completely and utterly uncalled for. As a Packer fan, you claim that the Packers...

Evaluating Lindsey’s Vikings Predictions and Making More

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Excerpt: If you are a Vikings fan you have to be enjoying this season as Minnesota sits atop the division with a 2 game lead, the Vikings have beaten the Packers twice and the team has suffered only one injury that has caused a key player to miss more than one game. Further reason to smile, the team comes out of the bye against the Detroit Lions. Yes, life is pretty good in Viking land. Before the season began, I offered 5 predictions for the men in purple from the NFC North. As the Vikings have...

Fantasy Football: NFL MVP Week Eight

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Excerpt: This article was originally published at FantasyPros911.com Each week, Dan Parzych will take a look at the top performers in the NFL with Parzych's 2009 NFL MVP, whether they are at quarterback, running back, wide receiver, or tight end.  Along with the best performers each week, be sure to check out Parzych's 2009 NFL LVP, in which he covers the Least Valuable Players each week in the NFL. Here are the results for Week Eight of the 2009 NFL regular season:   Quarterback: Brett Favre, Minnesota Vikings In case you've been living under a rock the last couple of months, Minnesota Vikings QB...

Brad Childress On Brett Favre’s Groin: What Was He Thinking?

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Excerpt: Brad Childress came under a bit of fire in Week Eight as it was revealed that Vikings QB Brett Favre had played through a groin injury while leading his team to victory over the Green Bay Packers at Lambeau Field. Favre was  listed on the injury report, as probable, with a hip injury but "groin" was nowhere to be seen in the report and it is against league rules for any athlete injury to be hidden, possibly keeping the other team at a competitive disadvantage. Nothing to worry about here, as witnessed by Brad Childress' hilarious press conference . Yes, you heard correctly....

Reeling Green Bay Packers: Sorry, Titletown, It’s Not 2003 Anymore

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Excerpt: It was Ted Thompson’s worst nightmare, and fittingly enough, it happened just hours after Halloween ended. Brett Favre. Celebrating at Lambeau Field. After having just beaten the Packers. As a member of the (shudder) Minnesota Vikings. But the true nightmare for Mike McCarthy’s team is not that Brett Favre is now ahead of Ted Thompson in the greatest ongoing battle of will and ego since Roger Waters and David Gilmour fought over the use of the name “Pink Floyd.” The Packers’ true nightmare, or at least it should be, is that by losing 38-26 to Favre’s Vikings on Sunday, they have virtually lost...