http://www.realfootball365.com Minnesota Vikings Football News, scores, analysis and discussion. NFL Football News. en-us info@realfootball365.com Copyright (C) 2005-2008 www.realfootball365.com http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/vikings/14974 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/vikings/14974 It’s inevitable that the Randy Moss to Minnesota trade executed by the New England Patriots early Wednesday morning will bring with it comparisons to the prodigal son returning. When Moss was waiting to be drafted only Denny Green, former Viking head coach, and Raider owner Al Davis saw through the personality flaws and character defects to envision what a great player Moss would grow to be.... mike@runemasterstudios.com (MikeBullock) Minnesota Vikings 2010-10-07T01:19:07-05:00 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/vikings/14934 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/vikings/14934 When the NFL first rose above baseball as the most popular sport in America, it did so on the backs of men touted as great role models, men America’s youth could embrace as guys they wanted to be when they grew up. United Way commercials showing pro players helping kids and families were as prominent back in the day as cell phone commercials are now. Then, somewhere in the 1980s, it was suddenly... mike@runemasterstudios.com (MikeBullock) Minnesota Vikings 2010-08-24T18:40:21-05:00 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/vikings/14923 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/vikings/14923 A trip to Mankato State last week to watch the Vikings practice in shells and shorts brought with it an interesting bit of insider information. While most noted that Tarvaris Jackson had improved and Sage Rosenfels hadn’t, the rest of the world focused on #4. However, that wasn’t what really hung over the practice fields. Behind all the hoopla about whether Brett Favre will or won’t return to... mike@runemasterstudios.com (MikeBullock) Minnesota Vikings 2010-08-11T15:55:10-05:00 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/vikings/14916 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/vikings/14916 Brett Favre will be back to play this year. Just thought I’d put that out there right now while most of the sports media is frantically announcing that “sources” are indicate he’s calling quits (again). While they break out their twice-used video packages and statistical comparisons and trying to reorganize the NFC hierarchy, I’m telling you that Favre will absolutely play football in a purple... TLFpublishing@gmail.com (Todd L. Frank) Minnesota Vikings 2010-08-04T15:57:36-05:00 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/vikings/14779 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/vikings/14779 Ray Edwards, the other Minnesota Vikings’ defensive end, railed against the NFL Commissioner, the NFLPA and his fellow Vikings in heated comments made to the Minneapolis Star Tribune on Tuesday. Edwards, one of many NFL players who would normally be an unrestricted free agent this year, but due to the current breakdown in labor talks finds himself waiting another two years to potentially cash... mike@runemasterstudios.com (MikeBullock) Minnesota Vikings 2010-02-19T16:12:01-05:00 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/vikings/14712 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/vikings/14712 The words “crushed” and “blowout” get tossed out too often in pro sports by commentators and journalists looking to add some flair to a somewhat flair-less game. But when one team is up 31-0 at halftime, then pulls their starting quarterback in the third, only to go on to win 44-7, the use of those terms is mitigated. When Eli Manning looked at the schedule for this season and saw his first pro... mike@runemasterstudios.com (MikeBullock) Minnesota Vikings 2010-01-04T17:19:04-05:00 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/vikings/14697 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/vikings/14697 After watching last night’s debacle in Chicago, it’s hard to really put a finger on who is to blame. But, these columns only write themselves once in a while, so this one shouldn’t be impeded by such things as a losing effort by the entire team. Offensive line. For the second straight week the offensive line looked completely mismatched, out of sync and downright confused. Loadholt, Herrera and... mike@runemasterstudios.com (MikeBullock) Minnesota Vikings 2009-12-29T15:44:05-05:00 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/vikings/14690 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/vikings/14690 When Brett Favre first signed on in Minnesota, expatriated NFL analyst Adam Schefter “broke” the story of a schism in the Vikings’ locker room caused by the ancient gunslinger’s arrival in Eden Prairie. While a lot of the sports media grabbed onto this bone like a starving junkyard dog and shook it until it was certainly dead, the players laughed it off, including one defender who accused... mike@runemasterstudios.com (MikeBullock) Minnesota Vikings 2009-12-23T15:19:10-05:00 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/vikings/14685 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/vikings/14685 Either the Minnesota Vikings are allergic to Sunday night games, or there are some serious problems with the newly crowned NFC North Division Champions. For the second time in three weeks, Minnesota played on the national stage of Sunday Night Football and had their collective butts handed to them by a easily beatable opponent. After coming out flat, and not seeming to wake up until the final... mike@runemasterstudios.com (MikeBullock) Minnesota Vikings 2009-12-21T14:49:03-05:00 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/vikings/14673 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/vikings/14673 Just when it seemed like Christmas at the Henderson household couldn’t have a darker shadow cast over it, Erin Henderson, younger brother of injured middle linebacker E.J., was suspended by the NFL for violating the league’s policy on performance enhancing substances. The suspension calls for Henderson to be out the final three games of the season, as well as the first game of the playoffs. ... mike@runemasterstudios.com (MikeBullock) Minnesota Vikings 2009-12-16T15:39:08-05:00 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/vikings/14669 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/vikings/14669 A brilliant old football coach once said “More football games are lost than won.” For those who don’t catch the play on words, what he meant was, one team will beat themselves with mental errors, miscues and penalties more often than a sound performance will trump another sound performance. While the media at large is clamoring about the Vikings resounding win and Adrian Peterson’s dominating... mike@runemasterstudios.com (MikeBullock) Minnesota Vikings 2009-12-14T14:43:53-05:00 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/vikings/14662 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/vikings/14662 The loss to the Arizona Cardinals wasn’t the worst thing to come out of Glendale, Arizona last weekend for the Minnesota Vikings and their fans. What could be worse than the donnybrook beating the Vikings took? The brutal injury to star middle linebacker E.J. Henderson for one. Henderson, who gets little notoriety outside the byways of the NFC Norse Division, is a household name inside it.... mike@runemasterstudios.com (MikeBullock) Minnesota Vikings 2009-12-10T16:29:45-05:00 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/vikings/14655 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/vikings/14655 On December 14th, 2008 the Minnesota Vikings rolled into Glendale, Arizona and laid the smack down on the eventual NFC Champion Arizona Cardinals, soundly defeating them in a contest that seemed ridiculously one sided. On December 6th, 2009, the Vikings journeyed to the desert once again, but found a far different opponent lying in wait for them. So far this season, minus two errant plays... mike@runemasterstudios.com (MikeBullock) Minnesota Vikings 2009-12-07T16:19:20-05:00 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/vikings/14633 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/vikings/14633 Amidst the apparent blowout of the division rival Chicago Bears, the NFC North reigning champions played some sloppy football at times on Sunday, showing this team has yet to reach its full potential. With ten penalties for seventy yards, two fumbles (both by star running back Adrian Peterson) and an apparent inability to shut down Chicago’s tight end, Greg Olsen early on, the Vikings played... mike@runemasterstudios.com (MikeBullock) Minnesota Vikings 2009-11-30T15:25:45-05:00 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/vikings/14613 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/vikings/14613 The NFL Channel has a revealing, and often funny, show called Sound FX where they mic up a player or coach for a game and then run the best sound bites the following week on the show. Last week’s episode featured the Vikings’ Brett Favre, mic’ed from the Lions game on November 15th. Anyone who knows anything about Favre can instantly jump to the correct conclusion that hilarity was the name of... mike@runemasterstudios.com (MikeBullock) Minnesota Vikings 2009-11-23T18:01:42-05:00