Touch Football
Every Saturday, year-round, rain, slush, snow, or shine, for about three years now, I’ve been playing a pickup game of touch football with a core group of guys at a park in Northeast Minneapolis. We play one to three, sometimes four games, for two to sometimes four hours, depending on the weather and the number…
Read MoreVikings vs. Chiefs
After a long off-season full of cravings for professional football, and the painfully Tanking Twins, it felt awfully good to finally watch a real football game, even if it was preseason.
Read MoreHow To Be Patrick Reusse
First of all, harumph a lot. If you’re writing about the Vikings, be sure to take a shot at 1) Randy Moss, preferably by calling into question his sanity and/or maturity, 2) sports talk radio listeners/callers by calling the whiners, and 3) the Culpepper-bashers because, what? there’s some risk of Daunte not being recognized as…
Read MoreVikings Training Camp Video
Minnesota Vikings 2005 training camp video.
Read More“Is it a curse that I love football so much?”
That quotation is from K.C. Joyner, a man who’s passion for the game is so great that he’s written a 467-page painfully detailed statistical analysis of the game entitled Scientific Football 2005. I could have said it. But I didn’t. So I’m stealing it. I first read that quote in June, buried at the bottom…
Read MoreViking’s Tall Red Zone Targets
Last year, toward the end of pre-season, I was all about Vikings Richard Angulo: A six foot eight, 263 pound tight end that is a punishing blocker who has soft hands and who looks like he might have some grace on pass routes. But Angulo suffered a season-ending injury during the final pre-season game last…
Read MoreVikings Roundup
Erasamus James has finally agreed to a contract and will make nearly $7 million in guaranteed money. But his status as a number one pick will not help him overcome the frustration of his teammates over his holdout: "We stopped caring whether he was coming or not," nose tackle Pat Williams said. "If he came,…
Read MoreMadden 2006 Is Out
The media blitz has begun. Actually, it began quite some time ago but it has stepped up now that Madden NFL 06 is in stores. I unfolded my Star Tribune this morning and saw on the top banner of the front page a Madden-generated Ken Irvin (why Ken Irvin, I don’t know) next to a…
Read MoreNFL Hall Of Fame Game
A friend of mine asked why there was a football game on TV so early?
Read MoreOnterrio Smith’s Webmaster
This is too hilarous. The VIkings fan site Purple Dawgs has posted a series of email exchanges with the Webmaster for OnterrioSmith.com. In short, Smith’s Webmaster emailed the Purple Dawgs site asking for a link to OnterrioSmith.com and offering graphics they could use for the link. The Purple Dawgs are no dummies, so they asked…
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