I’m sure you’ve heard the breaking news… and if you haven’t, you probably don’t care. Regardless, Vikings Head Coach Brad Childress named Gus Frerotte his new starting QB for the remainder of the season.
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Before the Fantasy Football season started, I predicted that Ryan Longwell would be the best choice for a place-kicker. I hate it when I’m right…

The reason I made that prediction is that I saw the Vikings offense sputtering and not being able to close out drives with touchdowns, giving Longwell an above average number of chances at field goals.

Yesterday’s game versus the Colts turned out to be a perfect example of what I was talking about. Longwell went 5 for 6, and was the only offense on the field for the Vikings. But before I get carried away, let’s start from the beginning.
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Yeah, so that quote on voting that I never got around to attributing . . . it comes from this article, penned by one of my favorite authors. An author so famously verbose that I suspect many of his magazine articles could have been, left uncut, made into books.

David Foster Wallace, 1962-2008.

Rest in peace, sir. You are already missed.

Three years ago I chronicled the 2005 Minnesota Vikings season. From the jingoism of Week 1 though the end of the Tice Era just a mere 20 minutes after Week 17. All my entries can be found in the first column here.

A lot has changed in those three years. New coach, new QB, new RB… pretty much new *everything* at the skill positions. It’s been a painful 3 years, but this year promises to be different. With the departure of Randy Moss I didn’t think the Vikings would see another game changing player for years, but Adrian Peterson has allowed all but the most stubborn Viking fan to finally move on.

A lot of questions coming into this season. Can Adrian Peterson repeat his electrifying 2007 performance? Can Tavaris Jackson stay healthy and be at least a serviceable Quarterback? Is this a make or break year for Coach Brad Childress?

But instead of a bunch of predictions (9-7 record, tied for first in the NFC North with GB, and hopefully we’ll have the tie breaker against them), let’s just sit back and let the season come to us. In the words of an immortal coach: Enjoy the season!
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I’ve been meaning to write more about politics and/or the election, but I’ve come to the realization that even talking about the subject angries up my blood. Even today, I had a highly civil e-mail conversation with wadE where we mostly agreed on the subjects, and it still kinda hacked me off. So screw that for today, and instead I present you with a highly nerdy video that I found on the interwebs some time ago. Enjoy!