Archive for January, 2010

30 Jan

NFL.com Contradicts Bryant McKinnie’s Assertion That He Pulled out of Pro Bowl

Bryant McKinnie has spent the entire afternoon telling anyone who’ll listen on Twitter that he dropped out of the Pro Bowl voluntarily, as a result of nagging injuries, before getting booted for missing most of the week’s practices and meetings.
“I was trying to push myself to play in this game and I thought [...]

30 Jan

Update: Bryant McKinnie Kicked off Pro Bowl Team

Bryant McKinnie said he was honored to be selected to the Pro Bowl team, the same as every other NFL player who gets selected to the Pro Bowl team.
Many of those other guys probably don’t mean it either, but at least they bother showing up to practices and meetings the week leading up to the [...]

29 Jan

Cold Comfort: NFL Admits the Saints Played Dirty

Five days out from the Vikings‘ stunning overtime loss to the Saints in the NFC Championship game, the fallout is continuing to fall, and a lot of it is coming down on the NFC Champs.
A couple days ago, NFL V.P. of officiating Mike Pereira said the referees made a mistake not calling a penalty on [...]

28 Jan

Fran Tarkenton Takes Another Shot at Brett Favre

If you thought Fran Tarkenton would stay quiet about Brett Favre’s Super Bowl dream-ruining interception against the Saints…you thought wrong.
Fran doesn’t know how to stay quiet, especially when some radio station like 97.5 The Fanatic in Philadelphia invites him to come on the air (via Sports Radio Interviews).  As you might have already guessed, Fran’s [...]

27 Jan

10 Ways to Make the Vikings Better: #1 – Fire Eric Bieniemy

Laying out the top 10 ways for the Vikings to improve themselves this off-season, so maybe next year, instead of making it to the brink of the Super Bowl, they can actually, you know, make the Super Bowl…
Eric Bieniemy has been the Vikings running back coach since Brad Childress took over in 2006.  In 2007, [...]

26 Jan

Dear Brett Favre: Thanks for the Season, Now Please Get Out

Brett Favre was brought to the Vikings to exorcise the ghosts of failures past.  Far from succeeding in this endeavor, Brett has instead invited a whole array of new and frightening specters into the Purple’s haunted house.
We already had enough goblins and ghouls cackling in our attic:  Pearson’s push-off, the Herschel Walker trade, Gary Anderson’s [...]

25 Jan

10 Points: The Aftermath Edition

Once again, the Super Bowl will go down without the Vikings.  The final 10 Points of the season…
1.  Memo to Viking fans who wish to do nothing but bash the referees:  You are making fools of yourselves.  That interference call against Ben Leber was probably a bad call but so what?  Had the Saints lost, [...]

24 Jan

Vikings Fall to Saints, Miss Super Bowl Again

Way too much insanity to sort out now.  Suffice it to say, the Vikings had ample opportunity to take control of the game in the second half, but failed to do so, largely because of turnovers.
And then there was that final “drive” of regulation, which will now take its place among the most infamous moments [...]

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