The Hall of Fame wide receiver thinks the Minnesota Vikings can become the first NFL team to ever play and then win the Super Bowl in their home stadium.
This has been a wild year in the NFL so far, full of surprises and there is still a full five weeks of football left in the regular season.
The craziness of 2017 has caused many to revisit their preseason predictions for who would win the Super Bowl to close out the year. Injuries and other factors have taken former preseason favorites like the Green Bay Packers, Oakland Raiders, and the Dallas Cowboys out of the championship picture.
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During the recent Thanksgiving edition of NFL Gameday on the NFL Network, current NFL Media analyst and Hall of Fame wide receiver Michael Irvin was given the opportunity to revisit his preseason Super Bowl 52 prediction of the Cowboys (shocker) defeating the Raiders.
Irvin scrapped both of the teams he picked in the preseason and instead decided to go with the Minnesota Vikings getting a Super Bowl win at home in U.S. Bank Stadium over the New England Patriots. The former Dallas receiver gave his reasons for why he landed on the Vikings as his new Super Bowl favorite.
"“In my do-over here, and I think last week solidified it when I saw that Minnesota did against that number one team and number one offense (of the Los Angeles Rams), I’m going to say Minnesota rides this wave and rides it all the way. I’m taking the Vikings over the Patriots in the Super Bowl at home.”"
That’s quite the prediction from Mr. Irvin. But based on Minnesota’s performance up to this point in the season, it is hard to argue against them not making it all the way to the Super Bowl.
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Considering how crazy this year has already been, the Vikings winning the Super Bowl in their home stadium with either Case Keenum or Teddy Bridgewater as their starting quarterback seems like the perfect ending to everything that has gone on in the NFL during the 2017 season.