Pacifist Viking

For me, the 2010 football season featured less fun and joy than any season since, gosh, maybe ever. The Vikings disappointed grandly. My w...

Numerous pundits have compared Brett Favre to Hamlet, because of Favre's indecision over retirement and Hamlet's apparent indecision...

part one in a sporadic offseason of blogging. I spent the evening rubbing raw some wounds that had spent two weeks scabbing over, so if you ...

Viking-Panther Preview 2009 Carolina Panthers The Panthers are 5-8: offensively, they rank 25th in points scored and 21st in yardage; defens...

(this blog wouldn't be this blog if I didn't mark the end of a Viking season with a pompous, pretentious, needlessly introspective p...

Viking-Cardinal Preview Tarvaris Jackson First let's note the negatives of Tarvaris Jackson ( likely ) starting over Gus Frerotte . Ja...

Today I was teaching John Keats' " Ode on a Grecian Urn ," and the discussion naturally turned to the Minnesota Vikings. In th...

Last season was the NBA's 60th season, and we commemorated it by adding ten players to the NBA 50 team . Now in the 61st year, we add o...

" Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now " by A. E. Housman Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And...

Corruption of power is the most Shakespearean of themes. When we see corrupt leaders, we must again turn to Shakespeare, for he understood t...

There's something about the Buffalo Bills being a fellow 0-4 Super Bowl team that makes me like them (Denver, what happened to you, man?...

Let me follow up on some of my thoughts examined below on the Vikings' decision to sign Fred Evans , an athlete that has been arrested ...

Antoine Winfield is one of my favorite Vikings: I don’t think he’s doing anything wrong by skipping voluntary workouts, and as of yet his ex...

You can hear Bottoms reading his poem here , and can read the poem here . David Bottoms' poem "Sign for My Father, Who Stressed the...

The Friends of the Minneapolis Public Library put on their 6th Annual Favorite Poem Celebrity Reading. As noted by the Fanhouse and by Ran...

"v." is one of the more complex and nuanced poems I've ever read. A full interpretation would require a great deal of time and...

One year ago today , I looked about the internet and thought perhaps I had something original to contribute to the sports blog community, an...

For the 96-97 season, the NBA named its list of the 50 Greatest Basketball Players. For 06-07, we at Pacifist Viking will be adding 10 playe...

For the 96-97 season, the NBA named its list of the 50 Greatest Basketball Players. For 06-07, we at Pacifist Viking will be adding 10 playe...

For the 96-97 season, the NBA named its list of the 50 Greatest Basketball Players. For 06-07, we at Pacifist Viking will be adding 10 playe...