First-ballot slamdunk Hall-of-Famer. There was no one better along the sidelines and in the end-zone. And how many guys do you think contemplated taking a shot at him as he did his signature “first-down” point? I’m still shocked no one ever tried taking his head off.
One of my favorite calls ever – can’t remember the announcer, but Carter had just made a sick one-handed catch, and the guy yelled, “Did you see what that man just did?” We felt that way a lot, actually.

It’s become a yearly tradition for the Vikings:  They fill their roster with useless QBs, a bunch of them get hurt and/or are ineffective, Jeff George sees this, calls his buddy Paul Allen and asks him to “gauge the team’s interest in him,” the team says it has no interest in an old, slow, occasionally-abrasive quarterback and we all move on.
Of course, the team’s total disinterest in signing him doesn’t stop the 39-year-old George from trying.  Here’s what he told the Pioneer-Press:
I know they’re banged up. But with a running back like Adrian Peterson, I would be licking my chops. [...]

#1 QB Carousel Settles On Bollinger – For Now
Brad Childress asked for this mess when he went into the season with Jackson, Holcomb and Bollinger as his QBs – now he’s got to deal with it.
Actually, it’s sort of already been dealt with for him – cause Tarvaris has a hurt finger and Kelly Holcomb has a hurt neck that left him looking like a punch-drunk boxer on the sidelines yesterday. So that means it’s going to be Brooks Bollinger this weekend against San Diego. Barring a recovery by T-Jack or the sudden appearance of Superman or [...]

Whatever scant playoff hopes the Vikings may have harbored likely went out the door today, with the team losing at home to the Philadelphia Eagles 23-16.
“Scant” may actually be too mild a word to describe the slimness of the team’s post-season chances going into today’s match-up with Philadelphia. The Vikings really were only holding on by the fingernails – and their prospects were not significantly improved by the insertion of Kelly Holcomb as starting QB, given Holcomb’s less-than-stellar performances in relief of Tarvaris Jackson earlier in the year. Holcomb did manage to lead the Vikings to an early [...]

Philly has no respect for our passing game.  They’re playing a safety up in the box whenever AD is on the field and he’s basically getting stuffed.  We might as well get used to this.
Kelly Holcomb is Brad Johnson.  He has no arm.  He’s stationary in the pocket.  The only good thing about him remaining frozen in place after the snap is that, unlike T-Jack, he can’t bail too soon and lose track of where the receivers are.  He did manage to hit that semi-deep ball to Robert Ferguson after that idiotic interference call on Lito Sheppard.
Again, we scored on [...]

Tarvaris Jackson is hurt and Kelly Holcomb is in.  But one has to wonder, given some other moves the Vikes have made in the last few days, whether Tarvaris would’ve been the starter today against Philly even had he been 100% healthy.
What do we make of the fact that, in an interview a couple days ago, Adrian Peterson announced that he is now officially the starter and will remain so for the rest of the season?  What did Chester Taylor do to lose his “starting” job besides pull his groin (not quite badly enough to be kept out of today’s [...]

Hey guys. I’m Andy Reid, coach of the Philadelphia Eagles. I’ve been asked by the nice folks at The Viking Age to tell my ten favorite things about being part of the best franchise in the whole NFL, the Eagles. It’s not easy to pick out just ten things, but I’ll give it a try…
1. The wonderful Eagles fans. I would be remiss if I did not start out mentioning our terrific fans. They are definitely the most loyal in all the NFL. They never, ever get down on the team, or boo [...]