Los Angeles next! This is getting better every week. We are less than 100 days from Super Bowl Sunday and the opportunity of a lifetime to host the Super Bowl and actually play in it. Quarterback Case Keenum threw for 304 yards and four touchdown passes in the Vikings’ 38-30 win Sunday over Washington. Receiver Adam Thielen […]
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Is it time for Teddy?
Let me start a quarterback controversy. After all, does it really matter what I think anyway? Sam Bradford is hurt. His left knee apparently has bothered him to the point that you feel like a fool asking questions of Mike Zimmer about it. Since playing like the best quarterback in the NFL Monday night on opening weekend […]
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NFL protest should hit home!
The last year and a half, the NFL and the players who have chosen to protest have angered millions across the United States who have ignored the purpose and cause for the players’ issues on social injustice. Players are looked at as pawns by fans and some media who say, “Just play the damn game. […]
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Vikings moving on up
Beat Packers 23-10 My oh my, can the Vikings play defense, as shown by victories over QBs Drew Brees, Jameis Winston, Mitchell Trubisky, Aaron Rodgers and Brett Hundley. Only one team has scored 20 or more points against them, and that’s Pittsburgh. So far, injuries and protests have highlighted the 2017 NFL season, and we have […]
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Vikings back in the mix? (audio interview)
CHICAGO — The first half of Monday Night Football’s (MNF) Vikings vs. Bears game was football to snooze by. It was the debut of Chicago rookie quarterback Mitch Trubisky, the Bears’ number-two overall pick in the 2017 Draft. The Vikings have their own issues with QB starter Sam Bradford, who played for the first time in almost […]
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Vikings lose big one at home!
We’ve learned over time that there are no guarantees on anything that relates to expectations of better days and future bigger events. Sunday’s first big Division test for the Vikings was part of the first sign — good or bad, positive or negative — in testing the strength of the NFC North. The current appears to be […]
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Donald Trump assaults NFL players
America, the Land of the Free, has become the land of confrontations. Now the sports world has taken center stage in these confrontations. Sunday it was one silent protest after another across the NFL, including in London, where Jacksonville played Baltimore. In Minneapolis (Vikings vs. Tampa Bay), Vikings players, coaches, general manager and owners locked arms in […]
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NFL boycott a defense of free speech
It’s been nearly a month and I am still boycotting NFL games this season. Social justice activist Shaun King, in the June piece he wrote for the New York Daily News, called for it because of the apparent blackballing of Black quarterback Colin Kaepernick, still an unsigned free agent. “If you call the decisions by […]
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Vikings’ Bradford stars in 29-19 win
It does not get much better than this for the Vikings. With questions everywhere, the Vikings sent a prime-time message to the rest of the NFL and their fans that they are better. Quarterback Sam Bradford out-dueled one of the NFL’s all-time greats, Drew Brees, with a sterling performance. Bradford looked like one of the […]
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Will this be a Vikings Super Bowl season?
The preliminaries are over. The rosters have been trimmed to 53 players, and all indications are that the 2017 Vikings are good but not good enough. The worst running team in football last year has Sam Bradford at quarterback. Bradford has a career-losing record as a starter. He’s never won a playoff game. You find […]
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Vikings: How good will they be?
So much is riding on this 2017 Vikings season it makes you nervous even thinking about it. Playing the Seattle Seahawks in the pre-season last week was a measuring stick game. You know how good and consistent Seattle is, and how well-coached they are, and they seldom lose at home. Seattle 20, Vikings 13 — […]
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After 52 Years in Mankato, that’s all, folks!
MANKATO — August 8, 2017 marks the official end of an era when, after 52 years, the NFL Minnesota Vikings left Mankato State University and the city of Mankato for the very last time. After all these years, the Vikings will move to their new permanent office and training headquarters in Eagan, Minnesota in March […]
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Just like that, summer’s over!
Summer — where did it go? Yes, it has been hot, humid and muggy. I was just getting used to it and bam! It’s over! Yes, we are still in July, mind you, but the Vikings are in Mankato. And when the Vikings go to Mankato, you know what that means: back-to-school sales and the […]
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Vikings believe it’s their year
It’s about time, you might say. The Minnesota Vikings, born in 1961 with zero championships on their resume, believe 2018 is the year they finally win the big one. The first Sunday in February in U.S. Bank Stadium the Super Bowl will be here, a home game, and if you can play your games right, just maybe […]
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Vikings make decisions, right or wrong
When you miss the playoffs and you don’t even have a number-one pick in the next Draft, it can lead to dire straits, slumped shoulders and limited optimism. The NFL Draft can be a life-changer. As ex-Minnesota governor turned actor, Jesse Ventura said, “I ain’t got time to bleed.” Not when you’re hosting Super Bowl 52. The Vikings continue to […]
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Vikings release Adrian Peterson
You want loyalty? Apparently you have to buy a dog after the Minnesota Vikings ended their relationship with the great Adrian Peterson, the team’s all-time leading rusher. The Vikings signed free agent running back Latavius Murray away from the Oakland Raiders last week. Murray helped the Raiders go 12-4 last year and make the playoffs […]
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Patriots devour Falcons
HOUSTON — I’m on such a high! I can’t tell you what it means being from Chicago to cover the Super Bowl and see your son, Larry Jr, share the greatest honor the NFL has, the 2016 Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year Award shared with Eli Manning. They were in the same Draft […]
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(Updated) Larry Fitzgerald, Jr. a finalist for NFL Man of the Year
UPDATE: Larry Fitzgerald, Jr. and New York Giants Quarterback Eli Manning were selected as co-winners of the”Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year” award. When things don’t go your way you simply hope for the best. The Arizona Cardinals were pre-season 8-1 favorites to reach Super Bowl LI. So were the Green Bay Packers after winning eight […]
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Hageman headed to the Super Bowl
Marshall turning heads at collegiate level NFL Atlanta Falcons defensive tackle Ra’Shede Hageman is headed to Super Bowl LI in Houston next month after helping his team defeat the Green Bay Packers 44-21 to capture the NFC championship last Sunday at home. Before being taken by Atlanta in the second round of the 2014 NFL […]
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NFL Final Four: Follow the rings!
In many ways the NFL playoffs, better known as the Super Bowl LI tournament, is like an Easter egg hunt. When the playoffs begin, just take the Super Bowl Championship rings off the head coaches and quarterbacks, hide them, and let the search begin. When the Super Bowl rings are found, they will lead you […]