The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Minnesota Vikings: Heart-Pounding, Jaw-Dropping, and Gut-Wrenching Moments from Minnesota Vikings History (Good, the Bad, & the Ugly)
We have a flashy opponent this week. So far this year we've been a little less flashy. Brett Favre = attention slut. But a really good one. Hopefully AP doesn't do this to us. But he will. Housh seems to realize that he may have made a mistake. But thats ok - I love him. This is going to probably be the result.
This could be an unusual offseason for the NFL. If a new CBA is not reached by March, the 2010 season will be an uncapped year. As Tarvaris Jackson and Ray Edwards are discovering, that's not as good as it once sounded.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- One day after being told by the Minnesota Vikings that extending the lease at the Metrodome was not an option, the team's landlord made the offer anyway and infuriated the only major tenant left in the stadium.
As the "other guy" in the Steve Hutchinson spitting match, Nate Burleson isn't worried about the contract games that were played between the Seahawks and Minnesota Vikings when he signed with Seattle in 2006.
His classes were held on Thursday and Saturday mornings in the spring quarter. Dugan also was participating in the Vikings offseason workouts so he would travel to Chicago on Thursday morning, fly home that night, workout at Winter Park on Friday and then fly back to Chicago on Saturday morning for class and return home later that day.
"As much as you want him on the field, one of the things I talked to him about actually going into the Detroit game, 'We've got to begin to pull your reps back,'" Frazier said. "The reason is, we are getting into situations where people are throwing the ball a lot in the second half of the game because of the score at times. Now all of a sudden you don't have a fresh Jared Allen. ...
We here at the Daily Norseman would like to join the football community at large in giving our condolences to the Spielman family, as it was learned tonight that Stephanie Spielman has lost her battle with breast cancer at the age of 42. Stephanie Spielman is the wife of Chris Spielman, who we all remember as a linebacker for the Detroit Lions from 1988 to 1995 after an outstanding career at Ohio State....
Along the way, backup running back Lex Hilliard — whose first NFL carry went for a first down but was negated by a holding penalty — had an 18-yard run up the middle on a third-and-16 to move the chains. Three plays later, Henne threw a short pass to Williams, who broke free of a diving tackle attempt from Na'il Diggs and bounced off a goal line hit from Jon Beason for the 14-yard score....
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Ricky Williams is 32 and far from done. And even without Ronnie Brown, the once written-off Miami Dolphins are back in the playoff picture.Williams rushed for 119 yards and scored three touchdowns, and the Dolphins beat the Carolina Panthers 24-17 on Thursday night for their fourth win in six games.A day after learning Brown is lost for the season, the Dolphins (5-5) continued their...
GREEN BAY, Wis. – There is an empty space in the Ring of Honor above Lambeau Field where Brett Favre's name will fit perfectly. Someday. Right now, the emotions are still far too raw. The boos are still ringing in Favre's ears after his first game in Green Bay since signing with those hated Minnesota Vikings. From the time he jogged onto the field for pregame warm-ups until he left four hours later...
GREEN BAY, Wis. – Brett Favre jogged out of the tunnel in a purple helmet. He might as well have been wearing a black hat. No, Favre didn't seem to relish playing the villain in his return to Lambeau Field. But it was going to take more than a chorus of boos to throw him off his game. For the second time in less than a month, Favre sliced up his former team and stuck it to the franchise that cast him...
PITTSBURGH – Brett Favre, Adrian Peterson and the Minnesota Vikings were anything but perfect. The Vikings couldn't gain a half-yard when it might have turned the game, then watched the Steelers' big-play defense end their unbeaten season with two long touchdown returns in the final 6 1/2 minutes. LaMarr Woodley's 77-yard fumble return and Keyaron Fox's 82-yard interception return on turnovers by Favre...