I love Sunday Ticket. . .I can flip around where I want.  Right now I've got Tampa/Detroit on.  The other NFC North action is this afternoon as well (Bears/Eagles).

So is that Tom Brady fellow.

Oh, and I was wrong about Randy Moss.  Shame the guy spent the last two years in Oakland tanking it.

QB Brooks Bollinger (#3 QB)
LB Vinny Ciurciu
OL Brian Daniels
DE Erasmus James
OL Chase Johnson
TE Garrett Mills
S Dwight Smith
RB Naufahu Tahi

Dallas

OL Joe Berger
CB Courtney Brown
OL Doug Free
WR Terry Glenn
CB Anthony Henry
FB Oliver Hoyte
T James Marten
WR Isaiah Stanback

FINALLY game time. . .woo-hoo!!

Looks like Dallas is going to get the ball first.

Dallas goes 80 yards in 14 plays, taking 8:24 off of the clock.  Romo went 9/10 on the first drive, and the one incompletion was one that he blatantly threw away.

Cowboys 7, Vikings 0, 6:36 left until halftime

Facing 2nd and 4 from the 28.

Nifty-looking 20-yard TD run by Peterson.  Longwell adds the extra point, and we're tied at 7.

Vikings went 69 yards in 11 plays, taking 5:53 to do so.  54 of the 69 yards came on the ground. . .27 for Peterson, 21 for Taylor, and 6 for Jackson on a scramble.

7-7 ball game, with only 43 seconds remaining in the first half.  This game is flying along thus far.

McBriar gets away a brilliant punt that bounces out of bounds at the 1-yard line.  Wade let it bounce, which I can't fault him for.  Just a good bounce for the Cowboys.

1st and 10, Vikings, when we come back from commercial.  11:29 left until halftime, still tied at 7.

59-yard punt by Kluwe, and Crayton returns it 10 yards to the Dallas 44.

7-7, 9:49 left until halftime.

However, there was a hold on Ray Edwards during the return, so the ball has to come all the way back to. . .somewhere.  They didn't bother to say before they went to commercial.

But in any event, it should be Minnesota ball when we come back.  Dodged a bullet there.

Kevin Williams looks like he needs some Gatorade.  Probably a LOT of Gatorade, quite frankly.

This will be the Cowboys' LAST challenge for the day already, because they also challenged (incorrectly) that Romo was down prior to fumbling the ball on Dallas' last possession.  So if there are any other controversial calls in this one, Dallas won't be able to do anything about them.

If I'm being honest, I don't think it was a catch.  But we'll see.

Spencer Johnson in the game in his place.

Leber is about to get tackled, but laterals the ball back to Cedric Griffin.

Griffin starts running down the sideline, fumbles it, kicks it forward, picks it up himself, and takes it to the end zone.

They're reviewing the play to see whether it was a completion or not.  It seems to be pretty obvious that it was.

Vikings 14, Cowboys 7 at halftime.

On the stat sheet, we're getting killed.  But, football games aren't played on stat sheets.

Jackson's only 2 of 6 to this point.  Also not what we wanted to see.  We need to start sustaining drives here.

The Cowboys are known to be a second-half team, too.

14-7, Vikings, 13:16 left in the third quarter.

McBriar's punt is fair caught by Wade at the 6.  The hell?

1st and 10, Vikings, from their own 6 when we come back.

14-7, Vikings, 11:09 left in the third quarter.

Kluwe drills a 58-yard punt. . .Crayton gets it to almost the 50, and Ronyell Whitaker gets called for a 15-yard penalty for not immediately trying to get inbounds after getting pushed out, so Dallas will have the ball at the Minnesota 36.

They're already in field goal range.  Jesus.

Our offense really, REALLY needs to do something here eventually.  They clearly don't respect the pass, and we haven't given them any reason to.

14-7, Vikings, 9:36 left in the third quarter.

Marion Barber punches it in from about a yard out.  First rushing TD that the Vikings have given up this season.

Cowboys went 36 yards in 5 plays, taking 2:36 to do so.

14-14, 7:00 left in the third quarter.

Let's see if our offense can't maybe try moving the ball forward for a change.

That hasn't happened since the first drive of the game.

1st and 10, Vikings, at their own 42.

Christ.

Folk adds the extra point to make it 21-14, Dallas.

That's your score with 2:52 left in the third quarter.

4th and 5 from the Dallas 47 when we get back from commercial.

Cowboys 21, Vikings 14 after three quarters.

No, that's not a typo.

1st and 10, Vikings, from their own 9 when we come back from commercial.

Cowboys 21, Vikings 14, 11:58 left in the football game.

Slip, slidin' away. . .

1st and 10, Cowboys, from the Dallas 22.

In other words, we're officially hosed.

Cowboys 24, Vikings 14, 10:38 left to 2-4.

Sadly, that's the most exciting thing that's happened in the Vikings' favor since halftime.

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Cowboys 24, Vikings 14, 8:03 left in the game.

24-14, Dallas, 6:21 left in the ball game.

24-14, Dallas, 5:36 left in the ball game.

Vikings burn their last time out, inexplicably, with 2:09 left in the game and the Cowboys on the Minnesota 24-yard line.

24-14, Dallas, 2:09 to 2-4.

You've got to be kidding me.