The finalized 2008 53-man roster was just released on Vikings.com (in PDF format for some screwed up reason).  Here it is all sorted by position (don’t say I don’t work hard for you) followed by the final cut list:
Offense
Quarterback
Tarvaris Jackson
Gus Frerotte
John David Booty
Running Back
Adrian Peterson
Chester Taylor
Maurice Hicks
Fullback
Thomas Tapeh
Jeff Dugan
Naufahu Tahi
Tackle
Ryan Cook
Bryant McKinnie
Marcus Johnson
Drew Radovich
Guard
Steve Hutchinson
Anthony [...]

John David Booty will be the #3 quarterback for the Vikings and Brooks Bollinger will be released.  I would’ve been fine either way.  I’m not on the Booty bandwagon (everything with “Booty” in front of it naturally becomes dirty doesn’t it?).  Bollinger would’ve given you a tiny bit more insurance behind Tarvaris Jackson and Gus [...]

All we’ve gotten so far on the epic John David Booty v. Brooks Bollinger showdown is that it’s likely Booty will win.  Otherwise the cuts have been pretty predictable with the possible exception of the whole Martin Nance thing.  Just to keep on top of it, I’ll stick up this list of the cuts and [...]

Here’s one for all the Ryan Cook haters:  PFT reports that the Bengals and former All-Pro right tackle Willie Anderson are in the midst of a contract disagreement that could end with Anderson being cut.  Anderson was arguably the best right tackle in the league for several years, so good that, prior to 2006, Cincinnati [...]

Linebackers Rufus Alexander and David Herron will both be cut by the Vikings today according to the Star-Trib.  Alexander was believed by many to have a decent shot at making the squad, and Herron was at least on the bubble.  The fact that both have been axed indicates that Erin Henderson has made the team [...]

The NFL has handed Bryant McKinnie the punishment we all expected – four games for violating the league’s policy against players beating the crap out of bouncers with metal objects.  Actually, Bryant is being suspended for a series of offenses including his participation in the Love Boat fiasco.  His current legal situation has yet to [...]

Martin Nance is among the players who’ve been notified by the Vikings that they will be cut.  The others as reported by Judd Zulgad:

C Dan Mozes
CB Brandon Sumrall
T Chase Johnson
TE Braden Jones
DE Chris Norwell

Nance was this year’s training camp hero but it wasn’t enough for him to crack the roster at wide receiver.  The Vikings [...]

There’s not much to say about last night’s final preseason game.  I caught about ten minutes of it total in between watching the Cubs game and keeping one eye on CNN to see if John McCain would try to upstage Barack Obama by announcing his running mate (he waited till today to spring Sarah Palin [...]

Billionaire real estate developer Mark Roski, Jr. wants to transplant the Vikings to Los Angeles, but so far Zygi Wilf isn’t listening to what Roski has to say.  “They have knocked on our door, but we have declined,” said Vikings executive Lester Bagley. “We have not had a meeting or discussion with Roski. All of [...]

Lightning and thunder here in Wisconsin.  God, be a shame if the power went out and I didn’t get to watch the game…
Tonight’s all about guys winning spots.  The most important battle of course is John David Booty v. Brooks Bollinger for that #3 QB position.  Frankly, I don’t think Bollinger has much of a [...]