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  Newsflash! Vikings Win Four Super Bowls! 

  This rather lame new stadium wishlist from the Onion's AV Club was livened up by a stunning revelation. The Vikings have four Super Bowl winning seasons!! Who knew?
  
  
  
  The article has since been corrected, but that screenshot will live on forever. Oh Vikings, never change.

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  Joe Senser’s wife convicted in hit-and-run case 

  Amy Senser was convicted on charges of leaving the scene of an accident and failure to promptly report an accident, both of which are criminal vehicular homicide charges. Each charge carries a recommended sentence of four years in prison under state guidelines. She was acquited of another felony count and guilty of a misdemeanor charge of careless driving, according to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.More »

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  Zygi Wilf’s private plane 

  Long before he led a team of investors in purchasing the Minnesota Vikings in 2005, Zygi Wilf's family owned a real estate company that had significant investments in Southern California. His frequent visits have often provided convenient fodder for the rumor mill, mostly because his private plane has an unmistakable Vikings logo painted on its tail and the team has always been rumored to be a candidate to relocate there. More »

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  Take away Super Bowl from Saints? Some fans think it’s fair 

  Several readers reacted to the news about the Saints and their "bounty" system, particularly how it related to the NFC title game against the Vikings after the 2009 season. Here is a sampling of those letters:.

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  Vikings Fans Comments: Special Off-Season ‘Bounty’ Edition 

  The Saints put a bounty on Brett Favre in the NFC Championship game. Vikings fans react..

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  Vikings will listen to offers for No. 3 

  Minnesota Vikings general manager Rick Spielman kicked off the draft-day trade speculation season by hopping on the NFL Network during Senior Bowl practices and declaring: "It will be, I think, very busy on draft day. We're the third overall pick, so we'll be looking at all the options. If someone wants to come up and get our pick, we’re going to be more than willing to listen." As we've discussed before, the presence of Baylor quarterback Robert Griffin III would make the Vikings an obvious trading partner for a quarterback-needy team at No. 3. In the past, Spielman has said there are a few players in each draft that he would never pass up an opportunity to select, regardless of the trade offer. More »

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  Vikings stadium: Metrodome site or bust 

  As the 2012 session of the Minnesota state legislature convenes Tuesday, Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton has narrowed the focus of the Minnesota Vikings stadium debate to one site. That's a good thing. Some legislators wouldn't have entertained the issue in its chaotic three-site form. One huge question, and excuse for delay, has been eliminated. More »

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  Your end of the season Vikings comment thread 

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  Minneapolis pledges $300 million toward new stadium 

  There’s still much that needs to be done, including a $300 million contribution from the state government, to go along with the local contribution of $300 million. (The Vikings and the NFL will contribute $425 million, but the Vikings prefer the Arden Hills location.) In an appearance on Tuesday’s PFT Live, Vikings defensive end Jared Allen says he hopes that situation gets resolved, but his gut feeling is that it won’t..

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  Vikings comment thread: Tebowed edition 

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  Vikings face first blackout in 14 years 

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  Aaron Rodgers mercilessly stomps on a little girl’s dream 

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  Monday night Vikings comment thread 

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  How the Packers passed Minnesota 

  Two years and two weeks have passed since Brett Favre returned to Lambeau Field and guided Minnesota to a stirring victory en route to a berth in the NFC Championship Game.
  
  You know what happened after that.
  
  With the Super Bowl in sight, Favre threw an interception in Superdome. Minnesota lost to the Saints. Favre came back, stumbled through another season and retired again -- apparently for good. The Packers, who lost a first-round playoff heartbreaker in Arizona after the '09 regular season, swept the Vikings last year and went on to claim their fourth Super Bowl.
  
  Since losing the devastating loss in New Orleans, the Vikings have posted a 8-16 record. They've fired a coach and benched Favre's veteran replacement, Donovan McNaab, in favor of rookie Christian Ponder, who will be under center a few hours from now when the teams meet at Lambeau Field for "Monday Night Football."More »

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  Vikings-Packers II: Territorial claims 

  The video embedded in this post has been making the rounds in Minnesota for about a week.
  
  It warns that the state will become new territory for the Green Bay Packers if the Vikings relocate amid continuing uncertainty about their stadium proposal. It's a stark and simple presentation, and it's one that conjures another reality: Minnesota actually was Packers territory before the Vikings landed in 1961. More »

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  New details on Packers stock sale 

  The Green Bay Packers are planning to launch their much-discussed stock sale as soon as next week, with the price expected to be higher than the previous stock sale in 1997-'98.
  
  The new information, contained in a securities filing in the state of Utah, also outlines a number of new wrinkles that will be of interest to Packers fans who want to buy stock in the franchise, the only publicly-owned franchise in professional football.
  
  The story was first reported by Bloomberg News.
  
  In an Oct. 13 letter to the Utah Department of Commerce, lawyers for the team explained a number of differences. For example, each share will likely be more than the $200 that was charged in 1997.
  
  "It may be $250 a share," the letter states.
  
  Second, entities, as opposed to individuals, may be allowed to buy shares, "but the price per share may be greater than the price per share to be paid by individuals." This would suggest that companies would buy stock, although the stock does not appreciate in value, pays no dividends and can't be sold.More »

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  Vikings fan comments – bye week edition 

  Viking fans comment on the Packers win. .

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  Week 8 Vikings comment thread 

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  Your Vikings comment thread 

  Here we go. .

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  Christian Ponder has hot start, but Aaron Rodgers and Green Bay rule in the end 

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  Build the goddamn Vikings stadium already 

  As the Vikings’ push for a $1 billion new stadium reaches a fever pitch and public support and/or outrage swells, I can’t help but think: This is all so fucking stupid. There are legitimate concerns on both sides of the debate, but we all know how this is going to end. (Spoiler alert: It ends with a new stadium in Arden Hills.) I approach this argument not as a stadium “supporter” per se; I’m actually a Packers fan who thinks it’d be a karmic treat to see the franchise pack up for Los Angeles. No, I’m coming at the debate as a proponent of reality and of situations that don’t bring out the most annoying traits of everyone involved. Here’s why we should build the effin’ stadium and quit all the got-dang yappin’.More »

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  Today’s Vikings comments: What went wrong? 

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  Vikings Tickets Drop to $4 After Terrible Start to Season 

  So far, the Donovan McNabb experiment has gone about as well in Minnesota as it did in Washington. The Vikings are off to an 0-4 start after losing to the Jamaal Charles-less chiefs on Sunday. McNabb has further proven that he has nothing left in the tank and any confidence the Vikings defense had about keeping their team in games seems to have been diminished. Whether or not Minnesota will be selling McNabb cups after his departure remains to be seen.More »

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  Vikings looking to add a receiver. A Packer perhaps? 

  The team has shown interest in James Jones, an important piece to the Packers' Super Bowl run last season, but a deal never took off Thursday.. .

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  Vikings fans comment on the draft 

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  The Worst For The Vikings Part Two: The Train Wreck to LA 

  The collective weight of embarrassment seemed to be more than even the Metro dome could sustain as it chose to collapse spectacularly rather than allow the Viking to play their final two home games. This was the point in the season where I felt karmic justice had been served. Lucky for us Packer fans, the cherry to top off the Vikings manure Sunday of a season was yet to come.
  
  Vikings fans had yet to endure the unthinkable, another Packers Super Bowl Championship. Vikings fans had to watch the Packers make one of the most unlikely runs in sports history. The Packers showed their merit by overcoming and avoiding some of the same adversities the Vikings had fallen prone to. The NFC Title game was an especially bad day for Vikings fans as they were forced to watch the Packers and Bears square off for the chance to represent the NFC in the Super Bowl. After losing three of four games, and with the season on the line, the Packers rattled off six wins in a row including three straight road playoff games to become the first NFC sixth seeded team to win it all.
  
  In the end all that was wrong in the football universe has been set right. The Packers are now poised to make continued runs at the big game while the Vikings find themselves worse off than before their version of the Favre era. The Packers have now won as many Super Bowls as the Vikings have lost. But best of all, the Packers are now being highlighted as the premier franchise in the NFL with the greatest fans and the most historic stadium, while the Vikings will probably be packing their bags for LA after the 2011 season.More »

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