Vikings at Eagles POSTPONED Until Tuesday At 7 PM Central
by Christopher Gates on Dec 26, 2010 11:46 AM CST
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PrintUPDATE #2: The game will, indeed, be televised nationally on NBC. So hooray for that, I guess. Seriously, this season just needs to be over.
UPDATE: The National Football League has just announced that this game will be played on Tuesday night. . .not Monday night, but Tuesday. . .at 7 PM Central time. No word yet on television arrangements or anything like that, but I'm guessing that since it doesn't have an ESPN game to go against that the game would be nationally televised on NBC. Keep it tuned right here for further updates.
For most other teams, getting a game delayed because of weather would be a really, really big deal. For the 2010 Minnesota Vikings, it's simply par for the course.
What am I talking about? Well, according to Chris Mortensen of ESPN. . .
The snow on the East Coast: Eagles-Vikings (of all teams) may get postponed....Redskins concerned about getting home after Jaguars game
Chris Mortensen
mortreport
Yes, because of the blizzard scenario that we mentioned here last night, the league has been discussing postponing the Vikings/Eagles game. . .you know, the one that inexplicably got flexed into a prime-time slot a couple of weeks ago. I would assume that the game would be moved to Monday night again after the storm passes, but I can't 100% confirm or deny that.
We know that football can be played in the snow. . .however, with the kind of conditions that they're looking at in Philadelphia, more things need to be taken into account. Things like the ability for the teams and the stadium workers and everyone else involved with making sure the game comes off to actually get to Lincoln Financial Field in order to make the game possible and stuff like that.
We'll have more news on this whole scenario as it comes through.
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As they said on ESPN...
Another day for Favre to recover?
R4F should be happy.
In all honesty, probably not happening. Also, I want a look at Webb.
You're 0 fer 2 so far.
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by less cowbell, more 'neau on Dec 26, 2010 6:00 PM CST up reply actions
Our season is like
that Li’l Abner character who had a contant raincloud over his head. Joe Btfsplk was his name. Since I am not savvy enough to post a pic, I will provide a link to his image. His persona basically sums up the 2010 Vikings season.
http://www.deniskitchen.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Category_Code=bios.joe.btfsplk
Your fantasy football expert since Jerry Rice's rookie year.
Tweeted from Bernard Berrian about 21 minutes ago:
“Yo real talk this has to be the craziest season for one team in NFL history.”
Too true…
Wow
Could there possibly some conspiracy against the Vikings? Has some evil diabolical force that is unseen to the human eye working it’s dark magic against us? Does the Dark side of the Force truly exist?
1st, our #1 WR decides to take the whole entire offseason…….well, off. Instead of getting his hip taken care of as he should have.
2nd, Favre decides to be Favre and decides to think about coming back just in the nick of time to miss training camp
3rd, Favre tries to surpass the most INT’s in a season and extend his streak.
4th, We trade for Moss, play Moss, Moss is still Moss, we cut Moss, we lose a draft pick
5th, Monumental meltdown of the Vikings against the Packers in our own house
6th, Favre nearly losses head playing the Bills
7th, Dome collapses nearly capping the season for the Vikings, we are even on the road at home.
8th, Favre nearly get’s head knocked off again, see’s Tweety bird getting chased by Sylvester the Cat while watching the game on Monday at The Bank.
8 negatives minus 1 positive in Chilly getting fired equals………………….
7………………..
uh oh
7th sign of the apocalypse?
Could the Mayans been off by just a few weeks under 2 years?
Vikings 2010: Episode 2, A New Hope - The Alliance for Vikings sanity have struck back. The evil Childress has been fired. Hope has been reinstated with the naming of Frazier as Head Coach.
Dumb
Childress pulled some really dumb stunts at times but the loss of the third round draft pick on Randy Moss is becoming a big brainfart.
Rumor has it down here that Devone Bess could have
gotten easily for that #3 pick. Younger, more motivated and a much better team player than Moss. My thought is did we negotiate or just buy a used car without looking at others.
Like this is what we will give you for this guy, that guy and send that to a bunch of teams.
See who responds and weigh out the best value.
I suspect that never happened. Even if a guy wasn’t on the block some teams might have started thinking and offer something up
AKA : Revenge4Webb
by CitrusFLViking on Dec 26, 2010 7:10 PM CST up reply actions
The NFL has just postponed the game till Tuesday (PER FOX)
"If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow."
John Wayne
by just another viking on Dec 26, 2010 11:25 AM CST reply actions
Judd Zulgad
Tweeted it a few minutes ago…
by 92Y_VikesFan on Dec 26, 2010 11:35 AM CST up reply actions
Wow
From the ridiculous, to the sublime, to the comical.
I just have a hard time caring at this point. Can this season just end?
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"A parent's only as good as their dumbest kid. If one wins a Nobel Prize but the other gets robbed by a hooker, you failed."
I know how the woman from "Aliens" felt now
You know, the one the Space Marines find at the Atmosphere Reactor, the one that starts pleading “Please kill me” just as Alien Jr. pops out of her chest?
“Please, kill me”
(for some reason, my 1st attempt to post that didnt go through, oh well)
Vikings 2010: Episode 2, A New Hope - The Alliance for Vikings sanity have struck back. The evil Childress has been fired. Hope has been reinstated with the naming of Frazier as Head Coach.
by VikesFaninNM on Dec 26, 2010 12:18 PM CST up reply actions
Yes!
Let’s just get through this season, find a good QB who will manage the games and hopefully draft a future QB. Too bad Colonel Klink gave away the team’s 3rd round draft pick.
No..
We’ve lost every game I’ve seen on AFN this season… Uffda.
by 92Y_VikesFan on Dec 26, 2010 11:58 AM CST up reply actions
Yah these are the tough, loudmouths I hear about in Philly
Most you out of staters who have to watch games at sports pubs know what I am saying. Loudest, most obnoxious of them all.
We’re big , bad Philly. But, they won’t play in a snowstorm that hasn’t even hit them yet.
Teams I get a little snippy about are NYers and Philly.Guess they don’t feel apologetic about their reps so what the heck… gotta get POed at something now that my Vikings evening has been ruined again.
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by CitrusFLViking on Dec 26, 2010 7:18 PM CST up reply actions
As tweeted by Kluwe
“I’m going to start a petition to get our Detroit game scheduled for Wednesday, so that after the meteor impact we’ll play on Sunday.”
Vikings 2010: Episode 2, A New Hope - The Alliance for Vikings sanity have struck back. The evil Childress has been fired. Hope has been reinstated with the naming of Frazier as Head Coach.
Meteor impact?
Space/Time continuum wormhole opening up and sucking in the stadium to roam an alternate universe for all eternity?
Jurassic Park style cloning underneath Ford Field held in secret goes horribly wrong unleashing Raptors that hunt down and eat the team?
A Hypernova event takes place in a neighboring galaxy and the gamma ray burt is concentrated towards Detroit?
Klaatu and Gort accidentally land on Ford Field crushing all inside, pop the hatch and say “Waaaaaaz Up!?!?”
The Bermuda Triangle suddenly relocates to Detroit during game time and the stadium is deserted and all people missing but the stadium itself is unharmed?
Someone fart’s like “Beavis and Butthead Do America” and the whole thing goes up in a mushroom cloud at kick-off?
Right now, I think any of those scenario’s have a very good chance at happening!
Vikings 2010: Episode 2, A New Hope - The Alliance for Vikings sanity have struck back. The evil Childress has been fired. Hope has been reinstated with the naming of Frazier as Head Coach.
by VikesFaninNM on Dec 26, 2010 11:57 AM CST up reply actions
As long as I am at the game in the Alternate Universe and...
…the Vikings are 14-0.
Or maybe, like that season of Dallas, we’ll all wake up and find that it was all some horrible dream…
Not holding my breath on either,
by 92Y_VikesFan on Dec 26, 2010 12:02 PM CST up reply actions
No, see the thing is
with the Vikings luck, the alternate Universe would be the Vikings at 0-14, Chilly still as head coach, Mike Lynn back to running things, Hershall Walker as our RB’s coach, Darrin Nelson still as our main RB, Troy Williamson resigned to a $50 million per year deal for the next 20 years, Wynn and Jackson fighting it out for the #1 QB spot and Dimitrus Underwood would like to rejoin the team.
Vikings 2010: Episode 2, A New Hope - The Alliance for Vikings sanity have struck back. The evil Childress has been fired. Hope has been reinstated with the naming of Frazier as Head Coach.
by VikesFaninNM on Dec 26, 2010 12:06 PM CST up reply actions
One problem with that 14-0 or 0-14 thing
The Detroit game is game #16. So it’d be 15-0 or 0-15. But hopefully 15-0.
Now that Brad Childress is gone, the BCS needs to follow.
But if you believe in the Alternate Universe Theory
The VIkings have won 6 Super Bowls
The Duluth Staleys are the most storied franchise in the NFL, and Green Bay is just a footnote
Chicago plays in a dome
But Detroit still sucks. No changes there.
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"A parent's only as good as their dumbest kid. If one wins a Nobel Prize but the other gets robbed by a hooker, you failed."
As Kyle from Sout Park stated shockingly in the 911 episode
REALLY?
And we haven’t been trashing GB fans with this the last unteen years?
AKA : Revenge4Webb
by CitrusFLViking on Dec 26, 2010 7:21 PM CST up reply actions
This sums it up.....
As I sit here in frozen NC (6 inches of snow and we are paralized…), I read this comment from last week about the Vikings. I think it sums up the season for me also…..
“So, I am a longtime Vikings fan and I live in Illinois now. I went to the Vikings-Bears game today in Chicago, where the Vikings turned in another pitiful performance. Afterwards I took the garbage out, and it had started raining. As I lifted something into the dumpster, I dropped the Diaper Genie bag of diapers and it exploded, and diapers went flying everywhere. Simultaneously, it began to downpour. So, as I was picking up the s——y diapers with my bare hands in the rain, it dawned on me that this was the perfect representation of the Vikings 2010 season. One s—- pile after another … in a torrential downpour.
— Zach Lewis, Oak Park, Ill”. Right on Zach, we feel your pain.
So how many more signs of the apocalypse do we have left now?
Seriously, this isn’t even funny anymore.
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by Eric J. Thompson on Dec 26, 2010 12:15 PM CST reply actions
I did the counting above
We actually passed it with 8, gave one back due to Chilly being fired, so now at 7th sign
Vikings 2010: Episode 2, A New Hope - The Alliance for Vikings sanity have struck back. The evil Childress has been fired. Hope has been reinstated with the naming of Frazier as Head Coach.
by VikesFaninNM on Dec 26, 2010 12:16 PM CST up reply actions
Think that is about it!
From what I know the 8th is not a sign but final destruction. I can only hope it is the Viukings reaping destruction next season
AKA : Revenge4Webb
by CitrusFLViking on Dec 26, 2010 7:24 PM CST up reply actions
A little glass half full here.
It gives AP a couple more days to get healed up for my fantasy team.
And we’ll probably get another improbable Favre start. Not sure if that is a glass half full thing though.
Why does this season keep reminding me of the "One" video by Metallica?
Darkness imprisoning me
All that I see
Absolute horror
I cannot live
I cannot die
Trapped in myself
Body my holding cell
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by Eric J. Thompson on Dec 26, 2010 12:33 PM CST reply actions
I was thinking...
…more of the line “I’m having a nightmare and I can’t wake up!”
by 92Y_VikesFan on Dec 26, 2010 9:12 PM CST up reply actions
W T F
We discussed the rescheduling, but disagree with the new time. Wouldn’t Yall prefer a Wednesday morning coffee bowl with a 9:15 kickoff. I guess when a season gets away, it reallllly gets away. wtf
Holy Moly Ole
What a disaster this season turned out to be. At least play Joe Webb so we can give the kid some playing experience. Yeah I know he will be running for his life half the game but at least he can run. Favre playing serves no purpose whatsoever. Lets do some real evaluating & get rid of Madieu & Berrian & give some young guys a shot. At this point you know we won’t beat the Eagles & a improving Lions team playing their last game at home will most likely end with a thud also. Hey look at the bright side we will improve our draft position at least. A fresh start for next year with some key additions & we could be right back in the hunt. We do have more talent than our records going to indicate so if things break right who knows.
Here! Here!
As loyal Viking fans we will watch the last two games with high hopes but I can’t help but look forward to the April draft. We should draft fairly high and perhaps…..perhaps….we will get lucky and draft a franchise QB. Too bad old baldy threw away our 3rd round draft pick. What an a-hole!
REVENGE FOR WEBB! Yessssss!
AKA : Revenge4Webb
by CitrusFLViking on Dec 26, 2010 7:25 PM CST up reply actions
you know
the Vikings might as well fly from Philly to Detroit after the game Tuesday (really? a Tuesday NFL game doesnt seem right) because the weathermen are predicting a nasty storm for Thursday/Friday/Sat for our area
by DedicatedFollowerOfFashion on Dec 26, 2010 2:54 PM CST reply actions
Buckle the chin strap!
As every loyal Viking fan has done since 1961, we will buckle up our chin straps, pray for a franchise QB in the draft and look forward to next year (after we loyally follow the next two games). I have a hard time letting go but I think I still think I resent Norm Van Brocklin for trading Tarkenton.
It's just snow for f___sake!
NFL has become a pussy league. Play the damn game.
You don’t want snow? End the season before February!
WTF! NBC must dearly want Favre-Vick.
Watching the Pack - Giants game
Rodgers can toss that ball. With a running game they might actually contend.
Yes.
Unfortunately, we don’t have one.
The season’s going to end, either next week, or in the playoffs, in a game where 1)GB can’t run the ball; 2) GB gives up a huge play or makes a huge mistake on ST; and 3) where James Jones either drops a TD pass or fumbles a ball giving the Packers opponent a short field.
I love the Packers and I had a great time today, but this shit isn’t hard to see coming.
by Ted Simmons Speed Camp on Dec 26, 2010 9:00 PM CST up reply actions
Depending on the whole offseason strike/no strike goes
You guy’s might be able to find a quick fix to the situation with these guy’s possibly becoming free agents. Also, depending if Thompson wants to spend the money or try drafting again.
• DeAngelo Williams (gonna have to pay if Carolina doesn’t resign)
• Cedric Benson (resurged last year, though still not sold on the guy)
• Joseph Addai
• Ronnie Brown (Sharing time with “Dooby Boy” Ricky has kept him fresh and under used)
• Le’Ron McClain (While a fullback at Balt., hasn’t been used much thanks too Rice and McGahee and could come in fairly cheap)
Vikings 2010: Episode 2, A New Hope - The Alliance for Vikings sanity have struck back. The evil Childress has been fired. Hope has been reinstated with the naming of Frazier as Head Coach.
by VikesFaninNM on Dec 27, 2010 11:17 AM CST up reply actions
OK,call me nuts
but people would have when the Pack picked up a kid from the Falcons called Favre.
Rhett Bohmer is talking like a kid with a now lease on life. I kinda said it jokingly to a friend B$ looking closer at his records. “Well, he was never going to beat out Manning in NY. He is their franchise golden boy” So is Rhetts confidence foolhearty or a reality waiting to happen?
He is the #1 QB recruit out of HS. He plays as a red shirt freshman at Oklahoma. Gets in trouble and regroups at Sam Houston and sets all their records ina mere 2 years.
Vikings rass saying they are very impressed with his football intelligence and arm strength.
Franchise QB’s arenot always #1 picks????
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So you're saying that the team should actually fix tin offensive line.
Hmm, call me crazy, but that plan might actually work. I mean, the reality is that the Vikings should NOT draft a QB because they can’t protect him right now. Anyone that doubts should have a long look and David Carr’s time in Houston.
Sullivan is a passable center. the issue WAS the right side, now it;s Mount McKinney. He was horrible this season. SHe needs to lose about 30-45 pounds, or be cut. There’s no other way around it. He was so slow that he caused other problems. And in reality, Loadholt could stand to shed a few to get a little quicker on his feet.
Rhett MIGHT be AN answer at QB. He was good QB in college, and like everyone, he deserves a chance. Shit, Tom Brady was nothing in college and look what he’s become. BUT, Brady has an OLine that gives him YEARS to find an open receiver. The Vikings need to get that back.
So yeah, Bring back Rhett in the offseason. Give him TJacks spot (and I was a supporter, once upon a time) Bring back Webb, and if there’s a viable option to draft in the 4th, do it. Otherwise bring in a vet to “help”.
Also, while I’m ranting. The Vikes need to trade DOWN in the draft, try to get more second round picks, and if they can even get back into the 3rd round. But no trading up. One player won’t fix this.
CB – need 2
Safety – need 1
O-Line – overhaul
D-Line – need 1
WR – need 2
All need to be addressed, now. that means more draft picks not less.
OH, Yeah. Andrew Luck is NOT the answer.
Back to my rant.
the 3 rb’s we have now could be the answer. Peterson, Gerhart, Booker should work, and Booker is a dual role back.
Bring back Sidney, Camarillo, then sign Andy Fantuz and draft someone else that can catch.
And, I’m tired of talking now. Make it happen.
"Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend."
Bruce Lee (1/27/40 - 7/20/73)
by Marcus.Grayson on Dec 27, 2010 8:05 AM CST up reply actions
I spent the whole week or so leading up to the draft last spring advocating drafting for O-line. It’s not like this issue wasn’t forseeable. I think the only thing I (and many others) misjudged was how huge of a problem it was gonna be. I had hope that Favre’s famous quick release was gonna let us semi-paper it over. But it was never even good enough for him to be able to do that, and instead he just fell into this awful self-feeding vicious cycle of accumulating injuries from the hits et al which slowed him more and more …
Which game for the back-ups?
The worst thing for me with the shift to Tuesday is that it has to hurt our chances of winning our final game against the Lions, which’ll probably decide if we finish bottom of the NFC North. Do we use back-up players for the Philly game that we will find more difficult (effectively sacrificing that result to field a healthy team on Sunday), or do we use the stronger players against the Eagles and hope that the first stringers have enough left in the tank to see off the Lions?
Have a very nasty feeling that if we start what’s left of our first team against the Eagles, we lose both games… Please let us avoid an early bye-week next year if the season goes ahead…
Let's just try to win both games
And if we lose, then … we still win. Better draft picks for us (and the Patsies). We literally can’t lose, really.
Except if we do what you suggest. Please, none of this throwing one meaningless game in order to win another meaningless game crap. that would be REALLY pathetic IMO.
While I have no illusions of beating Philly on Tuesday
I think that it’s important that we beat Detroit the last game. Detroit has actually won three in a row, and have looked fairly decent most of the season (with a 2nd string QB no less). Winning the last game would at least set a happier tone for next year, and I just think it would set a good precedent for next season. No way do we want to finish in last place, draft picks bedamned. Have a good holiday puddn.
I'm not saying we throw the game
We don’t aim to lose it, but (theoretically) we use players who have less of a shot of making it happen. With the calibre of players we’ve got on IR, I don’t hold much hope for our chances at Philly anyway. We can use that game like a pre-season – try out rookies and see what we’ve got, so we can help figure out our off-season. The re-schedule screws us royally, unless the league made a decision to move the Detroit game to a Monday to give the players another day to recover (which’d please ESPN as it could give them a final act of Favrellatio). It’s because of the 4 day recovery period that maybe we don’t treat them as separate games, but as one extended game.
Neither game is meaningless, but the Detroit one is more important. With very limited resources, I’d say one game has to prioritised. It happens in other sports (to the point where a trophy that used to be major award in English soccer has been virtually used a squad-player development cup by a few major clubs). I wish the consequences were the same for the Eagles, but if the choose to, they can largely field back-ups for both games if they want to keep players fresh for the play-offs.
I’d actually enjoy seeing the Vikings-Eagles game reduced to a run-out for squad players if it made the NFL more reluctant to try it again in the future… “Come and watch the practice squads on NBC” doesn’t exactly sell ad-space!
by ViolentSilence on Dec 27, 2010 11:45 PM CST up reply actions
Well this gives us.....
two more days until Vick destroys us again
No, a hole opens up and swallows Detroit
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Detroit is already a hole.
It been being swallowed for years now.
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truth.
The stadium is up near where people actually live, isn’t it??
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by ArizonaVikingsFan on Dec 26, 2010 9:27 PM CST up reply actions
Nah
It’s in the middle of the city. No one really lives in the middle of Detroit anymore.
I still can’t believe I’m going to this game on Sunday. I’ve never, ever been this tempted to just eat a set of Vikings tickets and spare myself eight hours driving.
Folks in Philly
Aren’t too happy with the fact the game got postponed either.
I’ll have to agree witht he Gov. over there in the assesment of the NFL head Asses Brass
Vikings 2010: Episode 2, A New Hope - The Alliance for Vikings sanity have struck back. The evil Childress has been fired. Hope has been reinstated with the naming of Frazier as Head Coach.
The American Pundit
on the UK broadcast that was meant to be carrying the game wasn’t too impressed either, but he came at it from a different angle, wondering why the NFL are surprised when evening games in the North of the country suffer from cold-weather. If they were that concerned about the fans, surely they’d have these matches in the warmer part of the day (the 12pm kick-offs) which’d decrease their chances of being hit by snow?… Guess network money talks too loudly…
by ViolentSilence on Dec 27, 2010 11:51 PM CST up reply actions
The silver lining to this crappy season
.. is that if we had been playing well & the games in these last few week had really mattered, this all would have been incredibly frustrating to endure. But thanks to our general pre-established suckitude, we can just laugh and roll with the punches instead!
I gotta imagine that the Gints fans are blaming the first week of this free week odyssey of ours for throwing their team off their rhythm though, possibly killing their season. And who knows what this will do to Philly. Only opponent that may have benefited from all the continued turmoil was da Bears.
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