Minnesota Talk

[BigEd76]

That's the best they could come up with?

and they couldn't even spell their best player's name right in the link

[henchmanUK]

That's the best they could come up with?

and they couldn't even spell their best player's name right in the link

[pinoyboy2pt0]

has anyone followed chad greenway?  i followed him a little in college, then he blew out his knee and was wondering how he's been since.

looking at his stats he seems to be doing alright.  not like we're going to run the ball at him anyway.

[Yeti]

Playing the Vikings in the playoff is like having a bye week.

Birds 42
Vikings 0


That's right.

Bring on Peytons cross eyed retard brother.

[Don Ho]

At some point, Andy Reid and Donovan McNabb will farg up in these playoffs,

Cliff Notes version...

in other words 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006.........................

[4and26]

This week they win and easily - next week?

Eagles   31
Yikes      10

[Tomahawk]

Eagles 30, Vikings 10: There isn't a worse team in the NFC for the Vikings to match up against than the Eagles. And I'm not saying merely as some sort of retarded reverse jinx. It's true. The Vikings are not a difficult team to scheme against. If you have a QB that's mobile enough to elude the rush of the front four, and you have a well-coached defense that can bottle up Purple Jesus (who's been playing a killer game of Hot Patato with the ball lately. OMIGOD, IS THAT A FOOTBALL?! EW! GROSS! GET IT OFF ME!), you beat them.

Well, the Eagles have both those components. Donovan McNabb may eat empanadas like a farging champ, but he's still fleet afoot enough to run away from Jared Allen and hit his targets on the go. And while Andy Reid's weekly strategy of passing the ball 80 times a game is idiotic against a normal team, it's the exact right thing to do against the Vikings defense. The Vikings farging love it when teams try and run the ball on them just for the sake of running the ball. But they get put on their heels by any team that refuses to play into their hands and deploys the short passing game all day long, as the Eagles and Bucs do.

Also working in the Eagles' favor is the fact that Brian Westbrook is an edge rusher who won't bother with trying to run at the Williams wall (Pat Williams will play in this game). Chris Johnson was able to get yards against the Vikings by running just outside the tackles and then straight up the field, and Westbrook can do the same.

At some point, Andy Reid and Donovan McNabb will farg up in these playoffs, but it's not going to be against this team. I assure you, when it comes to clock management and the two-minute-drill, Brad Childress and Tarvaris Jackson make Reid and McNabb look like farging Swiss-engineered models of precision.

(Note: Brian Baldinger did the color for last week's Vikings-Giants game. A lot of people have pointed out Baldy's signature mangled pinky, with Simmons being the earliest. Whenever Baldy makes a point with the camera on him, I can't take anything he says seriously, because it always looks like he's making shadow puppets as he's talking. "I think what the Giants need to do in this half is LOOK KIDS! A DOG! WOOF!")

That can't be true

[QB Eagles]

I've seen enough Vikings games this season to know that yes, it actually is true. Childress has to be the worst clock manager in the whole league.

Earlier in the year, while losing to the Titans, he punted away with a couple minutes left in the hopes his defense could get a stop and the Vikings could get the ball back. The Titans than kneeled down three straight times and ended the game.

[Don Ho]

there is tickects still available for 30 fargin bucks. I creamed myself when I got tickets at face value. This is the 1st home playoff game for them since 2000.

WTF is going up there?  My buddy calls on Target HQ in Minneapolis and he said he scored great seats on Tuesday afternoon for face value.  Am I missing something?  It's not like the Metrodome holds 110,000 people.

[ice grillin you]

Yeah, it's a disgrace that these people are more concerned about saving money while still keeping their jobs, or finding work at all in a region that is hit particularly hard with job losses right now.

It's a disgrace that the NFL will not see beyond their own greedy noses and perhaps lift the blackouts in these regions, particularly at this time.

There's so much wrong with this ridiculous post I don't even know where to begin mocking it.

hes just trying to be contridictory....but yes its a ridiculous post

[reese125]

I've seen enough Vikings games this season to know that yes, it actually is true. Childress has to be the worst clock manager in the whole league.

Earlier in the year, while losing to the Titans, he punted away with a couple minutes left in the hopes his defense could get a stop and the Vikings could get the ball back. The Titans than kneeled down three straight times and ended the game.

unreal that game....1:50 something to go in the 4th, you have no timeouts and you elect to punt?

I see why they cant get that place to sell out...faith might have something to do with it

[ice grillin you]

If a Minnesota Vikings game is played in the Metrodome and no one in the Twin Cities can watch it on TV, did it really happen?

The team must sell out Sunday's playoff game with the Philadelphia Eagles by today's 3:30 p.m. deadline imposed by the NFL to avoid a TV blackout. As of noon Thursday, about 8,000 tickets remained.

And that's a big hurdle to clear in the current difficult economic environment.

But late Thursday afternoon, hope emerged the deadline might be pushed back after the Arizona Cardinals received a second 24-hour extension. Minnesota might benefit if the league grants a similar delay.

Steve LaCroix, Vikings vice president of sales and marketing, isn't counting on an assist from the league, though.

"The league office addresses each market individually, so there is no guarantee of a similar extension being granted in our situation," he said.

There's certainly plenty of work to do. LaCroix said the Vikings have hired additional staff and contracted with a third-party call center to get the job done.

Ticketmaster sent an e-mail to a million customers, hoping to entice them.

And the Vikings' call center will make about 10,000 to 12,000 sales calls this week to season-ticket holders and fans.

If the game doesn't sell out, fans won't be able to see the game on TV in the Twin Cities or secondary markets.

LaCroix said fans might have to drive up to two hours outside of the Twin Cities to watch the game because of the way the TV markets are defined.

The Vikings have sold out 114 consecutive home games, dating to the 1997 regular-season finale against Indianapolis.

On Monday, the team announced it had 20,000 tickets left. Over the next three days, 12,000 were sold.

LaCroix said no major corporate sponsors are lined up to buy the remaining tickets.

"They're in the same boat as everybody else," he said. "It's the start of a new quarter in a very tough financial and economic environment. There's no one that's going to come in and save the day at this point. When you have this many seats still available, it ends up being a pretty expensive proposition.

"As that (number of unsold tickets) starts to really tighten down, maybe we can have something like that happen. But at this point, there's nothing lined up."

Some season-ticket holders aren't surprised at the large number of unsold tickets.

"I think it's 50-50," said season-ticket holder Shane Eckes, of Cottage Grove. "I think part of it is price. I think part of it is performance.

"I've been a die-hard Viking fan my whole life, and a lot of my family. We just haven't been impressed with the (coach) Brad Childress era."

Tickets range from $30 to $160, and plenty of the high-end seats remain.

Eckes said the Vikings haven't marketed the team's playoff appearance well. On Dec. 1, the Vikings mailed invoices to their 55,000 season-ticket holders asking them to renew their seats for the playoffs by Dec. 19. Only 55 percent of them renewed.

Some were apprehensive because they didn't know whether the Vikings would make the playoffs.

Some fans, like Eckes, said they believed they had to make a deposit on potential playoff tickets and weren't aware that the team was offering single-game packages.

Longtime Vikings season-ticket holder Dean Hovey, of Stillwater, said he was disappointed his renewal invoice came Dec. 17, two days before a deadline that since has been extended.

"If it had come the first week of December, I probably would have been able to talk my wife into giving me that for a Christmas present," Hovey said.

[DH]

10,000 eagles fans?

[Magical_Retard]

Are Curtis and Baskett playing in this game?

[reese125]

Baskett fully participated in practice yesterday
Curtis is fine as well