Bye Childress. Don’t let the door hit you on your way out.

Water pills are banned because the commish is afraid that they can be used to flush other banned things out of the body. Since the product the Williamses have taken doesn’t list the NFL banned substance as an ingredient on the bottle, you might think that it would be allowed, but in the No Fun League, the rules are made so as to presume guilt on the player for not navigating the NFL’s lists of approved and banned products. Of course, no NFL trainer is allowed to discuss such this matter of what’s kosher and what’s not with their players, because you don’t think the NFL wants to assume any responsibility other than dealing out punishments, do you?. It’s similar their views on instant replay: Whatever the NFL officials decide goes, even if it’s obvious they are all as blind as Mr. Quincy Magoo. The NFL is never wrong, even when they are. Keep this in mind. Maybe the eight players can sue the supplier and win enough money to retire from football or even form their own league. Always look on the bright side of life.

The entire Vikings season can be summed up in one botched play … Late 3rd quarter at Soldier Field. 4th and 1 on the Bears 36. Childress, or a member of his hand-picked staff, decides to pass. Pure genius. Peterson is averaging 6 yards per carry, so you go with the weakest part of your game. Result? Ferotte to Berrian: incomplete.

Da Bears take over and 4 plays later are in the endzone. What could have been a tie game, or even a Vikings lead, is now almost out of reach at 41-31.

Whatever happened to going with your strength when the season is on the line?

If there’s a bright side to this suffering
Can you help me see?
It’s getting harder to believe.

-The Bright Side of Suffering, Scary Kids Scaring Kids

Does anyone know why Pennington went to the Dolphins? Did the Vikes not even try to snag him?

I know this isn’t a ‘bright spot’, I’m just curious as to why the best-fit QB to lead the Vikes in a real WCO for the next 5 years slipped past us.

The real pain, for me, is this; even if we draft the most awesome rookie QB to come down the pike in years, he’ll need some time to learn and grow. That means 2-3 years as a backup. That means we still need a decent veteran QB, and even if I thought that Gus was the Man, I don’t think he’s the Man for 2-3 more years.

If we don’t get a great veteran QB, the best thing to do might be to stick TJ back into the frying pan and see if he can be cooked into something that looks like a starting NFL QB. Maybe he isn’t a franchise QB, but he’s what we got.

Else, it seems to come down to staring at the rest of the NFL’s QBs like a pack of hungry vultures waiting for a potentially decent QB to have a falling-out with his team and come available to the Vikes.

I agree with DC. Chad might have been a good fit in Minn. How long did he play with that smelly offensive in in NY before Jets management decided to shore it up? Then they reward Chad by signing Brett and letting him go. Now the Dolphins have shown improvement under him with less talent than the Vikings have on paper. Yes, he could have been the answer while the Vikes attempt to draft a good QB and groom him for the future.
Sure his stats were dismal and inconsistant at times but, when your O-line was no better than silly putty what can you expect?

Why is Pat Williams the only one speaking up for himself in this “Water Gate” scandle?
Maybe cause he is not guilty and if anyone has to worry about weight clauses it is obvious he does.
Maybe of all these guys Pat is the true goat in all this. Then, as I said, “How can these guys not know that the substance was banned?” A friend who tried out in the NFL says teams always lecture guys on these things so they know they need to be careful with whatever they take and check it out first.

have one decent season and you think you can ridicule the Badgers? Hah! The Big Ten is a shit show this year, and your “success” is a product of a down year in the conference, nothing more, nothing less. You’re nothing. NDSU ring any bells?

One mediocre season by the Badgers and you have the gall to suggest that Bielema is out and you’ll just drop your shitty coach on us. Well no thanks. You stupid Scandinavians deserve all you’re getting right now for not having the foresight to fire this buffoon in the summer. God only knows why you hired him in the first place.

Once again, the Vikings have proved all the pundits wrong, by taking one of the NFL’s best teams on paper and turning it into a defunct powder puff squad. Every year, we hear about some “big-time” free-agent acquisition that will assuredly push the Vikings “over the top,” and every year we see the same, pathetic results.

Don’t you understand? There’s nothing wrong with the players, it’s the fact that you live in a state full of losers where the mentality and culture is conducive for underachieving and bitching. You’ll never be winners, ever.

So enjoy the Gophers’ momentary success before their banished to the cellar of the conference from whence they came. Also, you might want to start planning now how you’ll use your top 10 draft pick, we don’t want another repeat of 2005, do we? Haha, schmucks.