Super Bowl Homeboy

Skeptical as to whether the team of destiny will stumble in its quest for success as the real opening ceremonies get underway tonight?

Luckily there is, always has been and always will be one member of the Minnesota sports press who tells it like it fucking is: Sid the Elder. (Not to be confused with The Kid).

Here is what Picasso with a keyboard had to say about the chemistry master, JA69, in his latest, and may I add, dead-on, masterpiece:

“The guys really got along well, and the chemistry was good,” said Hutchinson, who came to the Vikings after Seattle failed to match an offer sheet extended to him in March 2006. “I think so far, out of the three years that I’ve been here, so far this is shaping out to be the best in that regard.”

Hutchinson said former Chiefs defensive end Jared Allen, who was traded to the Vikings and signed for six years and $73.3 million in April, will further improve the chemistry.

“Yeah, [Allen] will help,” Hutchinson said. “Not only is he a great player on the field, but he’s going to be a great guy in the locker room to help build and maintain that chemistry that I was talking about.”

If you can’t smell the air in Mankato, it tastes like camrederie - medium rare. This is the most explosive display of unification since Denzel led Sunshine and Julius out of the Gettysburg Graveyard. I can only imagine what Chilly cooked up behind closed doors.

Well we are here on the dawn of another Vikings season. Once again the players are all cruising down South 169, passing the Jolly Green Giant sign in Le Seuer and being greeted into Mankato by the giant Happy Chef. Those are the same landmarks that Koren Robinson saw fly by his window in a drunken blur at about 130 mph and Fred Smoot saw while planning the Lake Minnetonka boat trip that would earn our franchise a national media shit storm. Well those landmarks haven’t changed, but pretty much everything about the Vikings team has over the past couple years.

One other thing that hasn’t changed is my undying pre-season optimism for the squad. This is my favorite time of every NFL season. Its given rise to dreams of Troy Williamson’s off-season eye conditioning drills giving way to 1500 yard seasons, new rookie defensive ends like Erasmus James and Kenechi Udeze wreaking havoc on opposing quarterbacks and the free agent signing of savvy veteran corners like Dale Carter, Chris Dishman and Jimmy Hitchock finally giving us a secondary capable of winning in the playoffs. Well all of those hopes and dreams, along with plenty others, came to a screeching halt once the games actually began to mean something. Continue Reading »