The Vikings are 8-2 heading into their important Thanksgiving game at Detroit, and veteran defensive back Terence Newman isn’t complaining. It’s better than being 2-8. It’s better than almost every other record in the NFL right now.
But while a lot of the outside noise filtering into the Vikings locker room is glowing praise about what this team has achieved, Newman is happy to hold court anytime to remind his younger teammates that they haven’t done anything yet.
“I’m never too high. I’m old. I don’t get excited about much. All you have to do is look at last year. It’s that simple. Everyone was telling us how good we were, and things went sour. Then everyone told us how bad we were,” Newman said this week. “I’ll keep it in perspective. It’s a long season. Seasons aren’t determined by how you play after Week 8, Week 10, Week 12. You have to wait until all the chips have fallen.”
http://www.startribune.com/terence-newma...459367183/

Without a doubt if you're a Lions player it is...

http://www.vikings.com/news/article-1/Sh...ecbe1ecc5d

Quote:The Vikings are certainly benefiting from variety, particularly in the red zone in recent weeks. In the past three games, Minnesota has scored on all 12 trips inside an opponent’s 20-yard line and reached the end zone on 10 of those possessions by involving seven different players.

Latavius Murray has three rushing touchdowns, and Adam Thielen has scored on touchdown passes of 18 and 7 yards from Case Keenum. Jerick McKinnon has a touchdown run, and Kyle Rudolph, Stefon Diggs, David Morgan and Jarius Wright have each caught touchdown passes in the past three games.

http://www.vikings.com/news/article-1/Br...3e6851039a

Ugh, need Robison back.  Our pass rotation is a thin without him.

The way people are fretting over Thanksgiving plans, you'd think a massive blizzard was in the forecast.
Nope, it's an 11:30 a.m. Minnesota Vikings game. What's a Minnesotan to do? 
OK, so many of us don't eat our turkey until later in the day anyways. But a good number of Minnesotans do plan Thanksgiving dinner mid-day. And this Vikings game is throwing a wrench in the planning.
When will we cook? When will we eat? Will the TV be on?
We conducted a super scientific Twitter poll to see how the game is impacting when people are going to eat their Thanksgiving meal. Click below to see the results.




https://twitter.com/StarTribune/status/9...wsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FStarTribune%2Fstatus%2F933027108418408449

Look at that fan devotion: Minnesotans willing to starve until after the game is over. Bravo!

When Case Keenum and the Vikings were battered in Pittsburgh and limped home at 1-1, the suggestion here was to step away from the upstairs railing, let your talented squad take a few more swings in this highly imperfect league and hold off on Googling “NFL Mock Draft ’18.”
Eight games later, the Vikings are 8-2, winners of six straight and sitting on the second seed in the NFC.
Thanks for coming. Please pay the receptionist on your way out.
The Vikings truly are the second-best team in the NFC behind Philadelphia (9-1). Enjoy the flight, but stay buckled for the unexpected, but inevitable turbulence.
It’s Week 11. There are six more to go. Ask the folks in Dallas, Buffalo, Denver and Green Bay how quickly things change. Or just reach back a year and recall the numbers 5-0 and 3-8.
Week 12 starts with three games on Thanksgiving. As the first one — Vikings at Detroit — nears, the sense is many fans have overcorrected their assumption wheel since that Pittsburgh loss and are rolling end over end toward the ditch on the other side of this winding road to Minneapolis and Super Bowl LII.
Just breathe a bit before locking arms in a statewide “Duck, Duck, Goose Gray Duck!” celebration of a second NFC North title in three years. Let’s all get up Thursday morning and see how things go against a Lions team that has controlled the Vikings more often than not since 2014.
Beat the Lions, and the NFC North lead is three games with five to play. Lose to the Lions for the fourth straight time, and it’s one game with Detroit holding the first tiebreaker and a more favorable schedule.
In other words, no pressure, guys. Before you eat turkey, don’t play like one.
Now here’s a closer look at the 16-team NFC:
http://www.startribune.com/vikings-road-...459124143/

Interesting Uni History for our Vikes - some may already know this from going to the new stadium's exhibit about this - but for those that don't know how or where our vikings horned helmet and Norseman Logo came from check this link out!

http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/21409...-minnesota

Allow me this indulgence and proud father moment...

Coaching my girls 10U Hockey Team and we got our first victory in our first game and my first game ever coaching. 

With :26 seconds left in the game our girls (Edina 10U) went up 2-1 over Minnetonka Black to beat a team that we never bested last year. 

We let the first goal in and our goalie broke down in tears. I had to coach her back to the net reminding her that there will be more goals scored against us this year and that we would score goals to back her up too. She didn't let in another goal the remainder of the game despite us being outshot by about 2-1. Each of our goals came from a rebound put in by a girl in position or by a pass from the corner to a girl in position..... Which as a coach is much more gratifying than watching a girl skate coast to coast and scoring. 

They executed the breakout of our own zone flawlessly again and again. Man I know it seems strange to get excited over a 10U girls hockey game... But wow that was soooo much fun. 

Here are many of the interviews we did with Viking players so far this year.   Don't know Pat Elflein, Latavius Murray, ben Gideon or more?  They are all here:

Adam Thielen



Linval Joseph



Eric Kendricks

Some fun video here...

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000...fame-class