Pacifist Viking

The Vikings are frustrating some fans with their insistence on using Chester Taylor a lot instead of giving primary carries to Adrian Peters...

For more on the Viking-Bear game, see " Trailing Clouds of Heaven: Vikings 34, Bears 31 " below. "On the Couch" is a ch...

Vikings-Bears Box Score at NFL.com Vikings-Bears Play by Play at NFL.com Vikings-Bears Game Center (with highlights) at NFL.com Adrian Peter...

If the Vikings win a road game against the Bears, I'll believe. The last time the Vikes won a road game against the Bears was when they ...

Vikings-Bears Defensively, I expect the Vikings to play well: Cedric Benson has proven nothing but that he sucks, so he's not going to g...

One reason I love to watch football is to see individual players so good, they disrupt and alter the opposing team's strategies. Randy M...

What was that bang? dislikes the effect of text messaging on language, and now blames Peter King for the decline of language in his recent E...

Back when the Vikings had a good offense (it wasn't that long ago), a trip to Soldier Field was a dreadful experience all around. The V...

Apparently I am an idiot. This post previously was filled with drivel that unfortunately was a long rant that led to me sticking my foot in...

Revolutions rarely take quickly. The French Revolution brought the Terror and an Empire and more Monarchy before it really brought a Republ...

week five scores standings through week five For a stretch of the 1990s, the NFL season was mostly for our weekly amusement as we waited to ...

Ah, the bye week, or as The Simpsons calls it, "a harrowing bye week, which no one enjoys." But really, a bye week can be enjoya...

Our own What was that bang? writes at Epic Carnival about " First Name Quarterbacks ," complaining about the chumminess with which...

There's a lot of interesting NFL stuff out there today. Roy Williams is going to start tipping pizza delivery people ( Fanhouse ). I...

In The Star Tribune , Zygi Wilf has this to say about fan reaction to the Vikings' struggles: "The fans are great here. I don't...

Waiting: a Spiritual Crisis One of my favorite passages in all of literature comes from John Fowles in The Magus , and it seems to me writte...

For PV's thoughts on the Viking game, see " Coming off the Ledge: Packers 23, Vikings 16 ." "On the Couch" is a cha...

Here's what we have. The Vikings are really not that far away from being a good football team. Unfortunately, each week they are close...

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A day away until another visit to Thunderdome. A day away until more Viking Agonistes (goodness, could I be any more pretentious right now)...