Pacifist Viking

Two Updates Below BYE WEEK! When the Vikes don't play on Sunday afternoons, you can allow yourself to be dragged away to other things. ...

Vikings-Lions ESPN Box Score Today, Pacifist Viking will be a place for positivity. Sure, the Vikings' problems were evident today, thr...

Viking Preview If the Vikes lose this one, Brett Favre should retire immediately. The 2010 Vikings are more like the ’08 Vikes than the ’09 ...

There was a familiar story for the Vikings in '06, '07, and '08: the Minnesota defense doing everything it takes to win a game, ...

I’m still on the Viking bandwagon. It’s just that now I’ve ambled my way to the back to sit with the older fans in the back drinking hard l...

ESPN Box Score After a vicious offseason of wondering what might have been, it was good for a real football game to start. A few plays into...

What's that, you say? It's Monday? Well, National Friday League is meant to be discuss the NFL (and whatever else the parenthetica...

The Vikes evidently aren't too interested in T.J. Houshmandzadeh ( PFT ), and that's the right thinking, in my view. Houshmandzadeh...

It's bad to trade Sage Rosenfels , but expected. But why did the Vikings just trade their best punt returner ? Darius Reynaud is good....

Bill Simmons on Aaron Rodgers : "On a personal note, my affection for Rodgers increased exponentially at ESPN's Sundance party duri...

Chris Cook has looked really good in preseason games; now he's injured and will miss time ( Kevin Seifert ). The Vikes have been suffer...

I saw what I needed from Greg Camarillo: he's an ideal possession receiver. He's got reliable hands and he can find open spots in t...

According to Football Outsiders , Greg Camarillo did not have a single drop last season on his 73 targets ( 50 catches ). The Vikings had a...

Crap . Crap . Update Given that the Vikings still have Bernard Berrian, Percy Harvin (I assume right now), Visanthe Shiancoe, and Adrian Pe...

It was great to see E.J. Henderson not only play, but be extraordinarily active . He looks like a player that can still be a good middle li...

Pat Reusse writes a good defense of Brad Childress ( Star Tribune ). One of the things I often come back to is the poor state of the Viking...

(or, how this blog turned into repetitive existential whining, where I'm inexplicably willing to admit the ways that the Vikings mean wa...

This is an extended argument against head-to-head standings for fantasy football, and in favor of Cross Country standings. The concise ex...

I have a crazy simple idea for projecting Brett Favre 's 2010 statistics. I'm just going to take take the average of his 2008 and 2...

I can see why people who aren't Viking fans get tired of this. It all seems so theatrical, melodramatic, overblown. As a Viking fan, I...