As you have certainly already heard, today the Kansas City Chiefs swung a trade that brought them Matt Cassel, the back-up-turned-starter who wowed the sports world enough to become perhaps the most coveted player on the market this off-season.  The actual trade was only the beginning of the story, however.  In its wake, we learned [...]

T.J. Houshmandzadeh has three main suitors to choose from that we’re aware of:  Seattle, Cincinnati and the Vikings.  Some have mentioned the Giants as a dark horse but other reports have the Giants believing Housh’s price is too steep.  Houshmandzadeh told Bengals.com that he expects to make his decision by tomorrow.  Seattle’s presentation apparently impressed [...]

T.J. Houshmandzadeh said on ESPN two nights ago that he was interested in the Vikings.  Evidently the interest is mutual, since the Vikings are scheduled to have the free agent receiver in for a visit as soon as he wraps up his trip to Seattle.  Housh, as the kids like to call him, is far-and-away [...]

Jim Kleinsasser reportedly drew interest from four teams in free agency, but in the end, the long-time Vikings tight end decided to stay in Minnesota, inking a two-year, $6 million contract.  “I love it here. I love the people,” said the North Dakota native, who has spent 10 years in Purple. “My family is close. [...]

Brad Childress spoke briefly to the media this afternoon after Sage Rosenfels‘ introductory press conference. I didn’t listen to it, because Chilly makes my head hurt plus I was organizing my toothbrushes, but reportedly Brad dropped a little hint about the Vikings’ future quarterback plans, saying the team will most likely add a fourth man [...]

The Sage Rosenfels trade spelled the end of the road for Gus Frerotte as a Viking.  This afternoon, the team made it official by waiving the veteran QB, just days before they were to owe him a $250,000 roster bonus. Frerotte had expressed his desire to remain with the team, but only if he was [...]

Names of potential free agent targets for the Vikings are beginning to trickle in.  I would love to be able to say they’re going hard after T.J. Houshmandzadeh or someone like that, but evidently their sights are not set that high.  They are reportedly interested in at least one free agent wide receiver though:  Michael [...]

Sage Rosenfels flew into Minneapolis yesterday, and sat through a terrible snowstorm so he could be at Winter Park to officially be introduced as the newest member of the Vikings.  I’m guessing he would’ve been pretty ticked if some last minute thing had come up – like the Vikes deciding to make a run at [...]

The Vikings failed to reach agreement with either Matt Birk or Jim Kleinsasser before 11 PM Thursday night, meaning both long-time Purple stalwarts will hit the market.  It would be sort of a shock to go into the season with both Matty and Jimmy in other uniforms, but that’s the way of the sporting world [...]

T.J. Houshmandazadeh is by far the top receiver available in free agency.  It’s unknown right now whether the Vikings are targeting him, but T.J. has let it be known that he is certainly targeting the Vikes.  Appearing on ESPN, the soon-to-be-former Bengals stand-out said:
I’m looking at teams I think have good coaches and good offensive [...]