Jermaine Wiggins & Brett Conway
Jermaine Wiggins Our big offseason offensive pickup was TE Jermaine Wiggins, who was supposed to serve the Byron Chamberlain role of a big, soft-handed tight end who would stretch the middle of the field. Wiggins has plenty of swagger but he hadn’t backed it up on the field, until last night. As the Strib‘s Kevin…
Read MoreOnline Buzz – Vikings vs. Seahawks
The latest edition of Online Buzz shows that people are far more interested in the Vikings than this week’s competition, the Seattle Seahawks, with more people doing Viking-related searches (1,906) than Seahawks-related searches (784). (Read my methodology here.) Click for Large Chart Searches for individuals again show Brock Lesnar kicking everyone’s ass with 1,651 Lesnar-related…
Read MoreNFL Network
About a week ago I got one of those oversized envelopes from the cable company that mean either the rates are going up or the channel lineup is changing, or both. This one delayed the inevitable for a while by dropping the bad news of rate increases in favor of channel lineup news. (I’m sure…
Read MoreOlympic Beach Volleyball
If you have any question of 1) whether or not beach volleyball is a legitimate Olympic sport, or 2) the nature of it’s appeal, all you need to know is that this, this, and this, the objet du desir, were among Yahoo!’s most emailed photographs last week.
Read MoreRed Bull vs. SoBe Energy Drinks
Have I mentioned how much I love football? I do. A lot. This much [Fade in picture of me with arms outstreched to either side of my body]. I love football so much that I play it at least twice a week (touch football, that is). I’ve been playing with more or less the same…
Read MoreNokia 3650 Review
I was planning on writing an ode to my Nokia 3650 cell phone, then it looked as if I would have to write a eulogy instead but as it turns out, I am writing one of those amazing product stories that marketers would kill for. My phone, you see, died only to be miraculously revived.…
Read MoreMike Tice’s Blind Spot
Okay, I was wrong. When I said yesterday that the game against the 49ers wouldn’t be a test of anything at all, I was wrong. I admit it. It was a test for kicker Aaron Elling, and he failed. I feel for the guy; even moreso as he sounds like a stand-up guy, which the…
Read MoreOnline Buzz – Vikings vs. 49ers
Don’t expect this game to be a test of anything, least of all our depth at secondary. The 49ers were a bad team when they had Tia Streets, Jeff Garcia and Terrell Owens. They are a worse team now that they’ve lost them. Add to that the fact that they are a injury-plagued team right…
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