I sat down tonight to review the film of the Packers - Vikings game. I didn't make it very far. Within the first 5 minutes, I saw three plays that would foretell how the game would unfold. Already disgusted, I threw down the remote and bailed on watching the whole game. Why torture myself? It was clear that these three plays would give me plenty to write about.
Play # 1: Packers first running play. Grant makes a BAD, BAD decision.
With Quinn Johnson as the lead blocker, Rodgers hands off to Ryan Grant on what looks like an outside zone run. Johnson meets the linebacker head-on and everywhere, [...]
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Throughout the 48-year history of the Packers - Vikings rivalry, there have been some special moments, but probably none that will live up to this weekend's events. An aging Viking leader returns with a new band of men, looking to plunder the very homeland he once loved. The word Viking is Scandinavian for "pirate", an appropriate description of our former hero gone astray. Like the Vikings of the eigth and ninth centuries, Brett The Grey and his [...]
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