The Vikings
The Vikings
The Vikings were seafaring Scandinavians engaged in exploring, raiding and trading in waters and lands outside of Scandinavia from the eighth to eleventh centuries...
came season
This was really the first day of the season that everything came together,
beginning best goal good hope pull season since state talking team
I hope our best is good enough to get us through, ... Our team going to state is goal we've been talking about since the beginning of the season and we can still pull it off.
amazing chance work
I know we're going to have to work really hard, but we have an amazing chance to do something great.
execution great job
it was just a great job of execution.
chance develop good open teams three tough ways
After two or three tough teams in a row, you'd like that open date, ... But it does give you the chance to develop some depth, so in some ways it's good and in some ways it can hurt.
definitely tough
It's definitely tough when you're used to doing very well all the time,'' Culpepper said.
basically came facts level pair player rise traffic
When all the facts came in, it just didn't rise to the level of a suspension, ... You can't suspend a player for basically getting a pair of traffic tickets. The whole thing just kind of went away. There was nothing there.
decided feels good
feels fine. It just got tweaked. They wanted to take precautions. We had a good cushion, so they just decided to keep me on the sideline.
head knock
You better have your chin-strap buckled, because they'll knock your head off.
earned home opener scary struggling sunday televised week
The scary part of the whole thing is now this week we play a struggling team, Chicago, and everybody's going to try and give us the W before we've earned it,'' said Tice of Minnesota's nationally televised home opener Sunday night.
needed order supposed tonight
This is fun, this is the way things are supposed to be, ... We needed to get things in order the first two weeks, tonight was Huffman football.
knew motivate stepped
We stepped it up big time, ... We knew that we had to step it up, because we had to find a way to motivate our offense.
again difficult last lost played replace year
It's not like he did a lot for us last year anyway. What we lost is his potential, what he could be again for us if he played like he did in 2001. But if we lost what he was last year, that wasn't much anyway. That's not that difficult to replace for a month.
felt lousy
It was a lousy deal, but we felt like we had to take it, ... We had other things to consider.