Donovan McNabb became the latest quarterback to shred Minnesota's woeful pass defense, helping Philadelphia coach Andy Reid get the better of longtime friend Brad Childress in their first head-to-head matchup.
Scoring a first-quarter touchdown wasn't the spark the Dallas Cowboys thought it would be. Returning a blocked field goal for a touchdown for the first time since 1983? Yeah, that did the trick.
Adrian Peterson showed the Chicago Bears why he was the first running back taken in this year's draft with an electrifying, record-setting rushing performance and three touchdowns for the Minnesota Vikings.
Surrendering control of the defense worked well for Brad Childress in his first season as head coach of the Minnesota Vikings. So he will do that again in 2007.
Steven Jackson and the St. Louis Rams played like contenders with a promising performance. The Minnesota Vikings still have plenty of work remaining on their reconstruction project. Jackson had a career-high four touchdowns and 142 yards rushing, helping the Rams finish the year with three straight wins in a 41-21 victory over the Vikings on Sunday.
It might have been Brett Favre's final fling at Lambeau Field, and it wasn't pretty. But after nearly throwing the game away, Favre helped the Green Bay Packers pull out yet another come-from-behind victory.
It's Tarvaris Time in Minnesota. Vikings coach Brad Childress announced Tuesday that rookie Tarvaris Jackson will start at quarterback for the final two games of the season.
Chad Pennington and the New York Jets bounced back from a bad game, staying in the playoff chase for at least one more week and smiling from start to finish. The Minnesota Vikings are nearly out of the running, their shaky quarterback situation about the only bit of intrigue remaining.
Artose Pinner enjoyed the best game of his career against the team that cut him three months ago.
Now that they've clinched their second straight division title, the Chicago Bears can focus on bigger goals: a No. 1 seed and, maybe, the conference championship.
Arizona coach Dennis Green expected to see a bumbling, mistake-prone Vikings offense upon his return to Minnesota. Instead, the unit welcomed Green back with the kind of prolific performance that fans took for granted when he was the coach here, finally giving the Vikings defense the help it has so desperately needed.
Jason Taylor zigzagged through the open field, waved the ball in his left hand and leaped across the goal line to finish with a flourish. Looking more like breakaway runners than defensive players, Taylor and cornerback Renaldo Hill were the best ball carriers the Miami Dolphins had Sunday.
Minnesota counts itself among the many NFL franchises trying to copy the New England Patriots' plan for success. The Vikings learned on Monday night that they still have a lot of catching up to do.
For years, teams facing the Seahawks at home have tried silent snap counts, blaring music during practices and other tricks to combat Seattle's notoriously raucous crowd noise. Minnesota Vikings linebacker E.J. Henderson figured out a way to take the crowd and the Seahawks out of it on the same play.
Trailing by 14 points to start the fourth quarter against hapless Detroit, somebody on the Minnesota Vikings had to put the ball in the end zone.
J.P. Losman and the young Buffalo Bills were efficient and composed, if unspectacular. On Sunday against the sputtering Minnesota Vikings offense, that was good enough.
For more than 3 1/2 quarters, Minnesota was beating Chicago at its own defensive game. By the end, it was the Bears who pulled a switcheroo on the Vikings.
Ryan Longwell caught the pitch, rolled right, let the ball go and connected with Vikings tight end Richard Owens for the game-tying score. With Longwell's three field goals and a clutch touchdown pass on a fake — plus a defense that forced nine punts — the Vikings showed again that they don't need a flashy, high-flying offense to win.
Two days before his 38th birthday, Brad Johnson was the one handing out a very nice present. In the locker room, the quarterback gave the game ball to new head coach Brad Childress, whose mission to transform the Minnesota Vikings is off to a winning start.
It's hard to imagine anything could overshadow Terrell Owens making his debut for the Dallas Cowboys. Mike Vanderjagt sure gave it a shot.
Fred Smoot turned a fast move on Steve McNair's pass into six points. The Baltimore Ravens weren't nearly that sharp.
So far this preseason, it's been one and done for Ben Roethlisberger. One series and he's done and, for the most part, so is the Pittsburgh Steelers' offense.
The Minnesota Vikings' long-term investment in receiver Koren Robinson seemed shaky Wednesday after a DWI arrest that might cost the team one of its top offensive players.
Randy Moss wanted so badly to make a triumphant return to Minnesota. He wanted to put on a show for the fans who supported him so steadfastly during his seven years here, and greeted him so warmly Monday in his first game at the Metrodome since the Vikings traded him to Oakland before last season.
There are no Super Bowls on Warren Moon's resume. Only championships.
Among those in the current group of candidates for the NFL Hall of Fame is quarterback Randall Cunningham. He played mostly with the Philadelphia Eagles but had a great season in the late 1990s with the Minnesota Vikings.
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You just don't see much analysis of line play like this. Later in the game, the Patriots decided that the best way to deal with Hutchinson was to just go around him.
This Monday Night Football game features two teams who love to run. It also just happens that both teams can stop the run. Defense is really not an issue for either team coming into week 8. Both QB's have been to the big game, and have a not too bad record on monday night.
Seattle, WA: Minnesota Vikings Chester Taylor scores the longest touchdown in Minnesota Vikings history today with a 95 yard run against the Seattle Seahawks. It was the first play of a drive that started on the Seattle 5 yard line.
John Clayton talks about why the recent "poison-pills" are going to hurt the NFL owners in the future.
Culpepper being traded for a 2nd round draft pick after asking for a better contract? Is this going to be a good or bad trade for the Vikings?
Duluth has added its name to a list of cities interested in hosting the Minnesota Vikings' training camp. Sioux Falls, S.D., and Fargo, N.D., also have expressed interest in hosting the Vikings for their preseason camp.
Business leaders in Sioux Falls, S.D., decided Monday to renew their effort to lure the Vikings' training camp to their city -- provided the team does not use them as leverage to squeeze a better deal from another Minnesota city.
Well it's about time. Minnesota is finally considering canning Mike Tice in favor of a more competent coach.