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A Sunday Soiree Into the Vikings' Blogosphere

Well, ladies and gentlemen, in less than 23 hours, I'll be sitting in a room in the Sablich Center at Keesler AFB taking my promotion tests.  (Thanks to everyone for the well wishes, by the way.  I appreciate them!)  I'm taking a break from studying to burn a movie onto DVD for Mrs. Gonzo and I to watch later and start thumbing through Pro Football Weekly's draft preview and my newly acquired copy of The Non-Runner's Marathon Trainer, so I thought I'd give you fine folks something to read.

This seemed to be pretty popular the last time I did it, and now that our little site here is on Yahoo!, these sites should get even more exposure than they did the last time I put one of these together.  The more, the merrier, I always say.  Anyway, after the jump, we'll have a look at what all the other folks that comprise the Vikings blogosphere are talking about these days.

Star-divide

--Capital J, like many of us, is wondering why Torry Holt hasn't been to town yet.

--The folks at Grant's Tomb are also thinking about Torry Holt. . .but their thoughts are a bit different than you might think.

--Luft's Locker Room has one of those "Pardon our dust" signs that you see in stores that are renovating.  I like the new look, personally, but it will get better with the "proper" color scheme.

--Pacifist Viking has an A through Z of Tarvaris Jackson thoughts.

--The Purple Buckeye doesn't seem to be terribly pleased that the Vikings retained Benny Sapp.  Can't argue with his logic too much, really.

--The Purple Trojan has an off-topic post about Thursday's epic Syracuse/UConn basketball game.

--Over at the Ragnarok, in addition to analyzing the No Logo Needed mock draft they're a part of, they're continuing the "Solving Our Problems" series with looks at former Seahawk FB Leonard Weaver and former Cleveland OT Kevin Shaffer.

--At Skol Vikes, Newt is tracking all the Vikings' free agency happenings.  It's been a pretty tough job thus far, what with all the activity and everything.

--The Viking Age takes a look at a couple of the mock drafts that have been run over at the Four-Letter, and specifically who the Vikings are selecting in those drafts.

--Vikings Gab wonders if there's a method to the Vikings' free agency madness. . .or the lack thereof.

--Vikes Geek takes a look at the loss of Matt Birk in his own upbeat, chipper style.

--Viking Nation is also tracking Minnesota's off-season moves to this point.

--Vikings Vigil states the obvious. . .there really isn't a whole lot going on in Viking land at the moment.

--VikeVision hasn't updated in a while, but they still have the cool header graphic that includes the girl with the purple eyes, which is awesome.

--Vikings Vixen?  Yes, still very, very pink.  She also doesn't appear to be a big fan of the Sage Rosenfels signing.

--Vikings War Cry speculates on stories from earlier this week that imply that T.J. Houshmandzadeh didn't sign with the Vikings because of Tarvaris Jackson.  (Because, you know, he obviously didn't know who Minnesota's starting QB was before the Vikings treated him like royalty for two days.)

And there you go!  I'm going to get back to the books here, so I hope everyone enjoys the links.  Hopefully I'll be back later this afternoon with something extra, but if I'm not, enjoy the rest of your Sunday and I'll be back after I test tomorrow!

Poll
What's your favorite non-Daily Norseman Vikings blog? (Listed in alphabetical order.)
Capital J's Corner
55 votes
Grant's Tomb
19 votes
Luft's Locker Room
2 votes
Pacifist Viking
42 votes
The Purple Buckeye
6 votes
The Purple Trojan
5 votes
The Raganarok
18 votes
Skol Vikes
21 votes
The Viking Age
32 votes
VikeVision
6 votes
Vikes Gab
4 votes
Viking Geek
11 votes
Vikings Nation
17 votes
Viking Valhalla
35 votes
Viking Vigil
18 votes
Viking Vixen
12 votes
Vikings War Cry
20 votes
Other (if you know of other Vikings blogs, please share them!)
27 votes

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Wait

there’s Vikings blogs other than the DN?

by Frost on Mar 15, 2009 9:53 AM CDT reply actions   0 recs

And yes, I realize now

That it’s not exactly in alphabetical order.

I ain’t much for fancy booklearnin’.

The Daily Norseman - The greatest Vikings' site on the Internet!

by Gonzo on Mar 15, 2009 10:05 AM CDT reply actions   0 recs

The Only Fancy Booklearnin'

you need to worry about is concerning your test tomorrow…at least that’s what most of my old teachers used to scream at me (or something to that effect) with sometimes mixed results…Oh well, good luck anyway…

by purplegrey on Mar 15, 2009 10:36 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

Just a selfless plug...

I have my first mock up at Viking Vigil, and it turned into a novelette. Here’s the link:

http://www.vikingvigil.com/2009/03/andrews-2009-mock-draft-ver1/

Viking Vigil - The 2nd greatest Vikings community on the internet!
http://www.vikingvigil.com
Twins Fix
http://www.twinsfix.com

by Andersklasen on Mar 15, 2009 6:38 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

Viking Blog Thoughts

I checked out most of these sites for several years before registering to comment on this one, as it is the best over-all. (No Suckup.) I don’t have the time to read, much less comment on, all of them on a daily basis, but I do check most of them out regularly during the NFL season. I very seldom comment on any Viking sites besides here.

Pacifist Viking has some very good stuff when it sticks to football, but I couldn’t vote for that site because of its regular forays in to politics un-related to football. (I am far from in-different on politics, but I like the way the Daily Norseman keeps it out of here.) As an avid hunter and fisherman, I find PV’s regular espousing of vegetarian philosophy and animal-rights crusading especially irritating.

PV also has a touch of Dennis Miller Syndrome (DMS). DMS is characterized by a need to insert literary references in discussions where there is no need for them. PV doesn’t have Miller’s pretentious habit of making those references as obscure as possible, nor does PV lean on them like Miller does. Still, I don’t need Dostoyevsky references when I am reading about football.

Like Pacifist Viking (the blogger, not the blog), I am a college instructor. Like him, I teach in liberal arts—US History in my case. However, I see no need to expound on how Foucault sheds light on the Vikings’ inabilty to change their locker room culture, or how Fred Block and Theda Skocpol’s theories explain the actions of the Vikings front office.

Don’t get me wrong—PV knows their football, regardless of my stylistic and philosophical differences with them. If we were voting for “Worst Viking Blog”, my vote would go to Vikes Vixen. I don’t go there often, but when I do there is little in the way of analysis or opinion, and a whole lot of pink Viking t-shirt marketing.

by Midnight Rambler on Mar 16, 2009 12:28 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

Too many good choices....

Great list of sites Gonzo… Luft and Vikings Valhalla are really one in the same; but damn some great choices out there.

All great sites with great fans and bloggers!

LIONS AND PACKERS AND BEARS..... WHO CARES!!! www.vikingsvalhalla.com

by skol4life on Mar 18, 2009 4:32 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

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