The Viking Age » mike gandy http://thevikingage.com A Minnesota Vikings Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and more. Tue, 21 May 2013 16:32:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Vikings 35, Cardinals 14 http://thevikingage.com/2008/12/15/vikings-35-cardinals-14/ http://thevikingage.com/2008/12/15/vikings-35-cardinals-14/#comments Mon, 15 Dec 2008 19:53:04 +0000 Dan Zinski http://thevikingage.com/?p=1205 The frozen North has been living up to its name the last few days, but the Vikings have provided a welcome shot of warmth with the way they’ve been playing.  This weekend the hot Vikes went into balmy Arizona, a place that has been a house-of-horrors for them in the past (McCown to Poole anyone?), [...]

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]]> The frozen North has been living up to its name the last few days, but the Vikings have provided a welcome shot of warmth with the way they’ve been playing.  This weekend the hot Vikes went into balmy Arizona, a place that has been a house-of-horrors for them in the past (McCown to Poole anyone?), and showed why it’s about time people started taking them seriously as contenders in the NFC.  Yes, I said it, and I’m not ashamed of it – this team is for real.  What else do they need to do to prove it?  They took hold of first place by beating up their division rivals the Bears at home, then avoided the ultimate trap-game in Detroit, then took their show on the road and knocked the piss out of a Cardinals team that was supposed to put them in their place via aerial assault.  It was a thoroughly dominating performance by the Purple – maybe more dominating than their win over the Bears, and certainly more impressive given that it happened on the road under late-season pressure.  That’s the kind of game the Vikes are supposed to lose or, at best, win on a fluke.  Instead they took the Cardinals by their scrawny necks, shook them and tossed them away.

The Vikings scored early and often:  Bernard Berrian via punt return; Tarvaris Jackson to Bernard Berrian on a sweet sideline pattern (Berrian was tightly covered but what does it matter when you have TD-Jack tossing the ball?); Sidney Rice on a laser-beam six-yarder from T-Jack.  21-0 before the end of the first quarter.  Cardinals shell-shocked.  Vikings fans not only out-screaming Cardinals fans but possibly out-numbering them.  What would prove the image that best summed-up this beat down?  How about Jared Allen waving his arms to fire the crowd up?  Just call U of Phoenix Stadium Metrodome West from now on.

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