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I am a life long Penn State fan and as such I have an interest in following former Nittany Lions as they move on into the National Football League. I was pleasantly surprised when Gerald Hodges and Mike Mauti were both drafted by the Vikings. I think that you Vikings fans will be very pleased with their skills and abilities. Mike Mauti, if he gets beyond his knee injuries, will be a fantastic leader. So those are the biased opinions of a die hard Penn State fan. What is the early word on Hodges and Mauti? Do the Vikings have any immediate needs at the linebacker positions that Hodges and Mauti could fill? I look forward to hearing fan responses. By the way this fan site is way more fun than the Steelers fan site (Behind the Steeler Curtain). All they seem to care about over there is plotting mock drafts for the next one hundred years or analyzing the shortcomings of the third string long snapper. I am a life long Penn State fan and as such I have an interest in following former Nittany Lions as they move on into the National Football League. I was pleasantly surprised when Gerald Hodges and Mike Mauti were both drafted by the Vikings. I think that you Vikings fans will be very pleased with their skills and abilities. Mike Mauti, if he gets beyond his knee injuries, will be a fantastic leader. So those are the biased opinions of a die hard Penn State fan. What is the early word on Hodges and Mauti? Do the Vikings have any immediate needs at the linebacker positions that Hodges and Mauti could fill? I look forward to hearing fan responses. By the way this fan site is way more fun than the Steelers fan site (Behind the Steeler Curtain). All they seem to care about over there is plotting mock drafts for the next one hundred years or analyzing the shortcomings of the third string long snapper.

Hey Vikings Fans! Here is a batch of Vikings articles from around the web that you might be interested in. Mark Dayton Wants Cigarette Tax to Help Build Vikings Stadium So about that whole stadium financing thing. Turns out electronic pull tabs aren’t going to be enough. And you thought all that was hashed out before the deal was signed? Guess again. Even as fans digest the details of the new awesome sci-fi sta… 12,000,000 We’ve done it again, ladies and gentlemen. . .and with the issues and some other things we’ve al… Cordarrelle Patterson At The NFLPA Rookie Premiere As we mentioned a couple of days ago, Tweet This Post

So about that whole stadium financing thing. Turns out electronic pull tabs aren’t going to be enough. And you thought all that was hashed out before the deal was signed? Guess again. Even as fans digest the details of the new awesome sci-fi stadium the Vikings have planned, Minnesota lawmakers are scrambling to figure out how the heck they’re going to pay for their $348 million share. Governor Mark Dayton has an idea. Just tax cigarettes! Dayton has introduced a new proposal that would raise the state tax on heaters from $1.23 per pack to $2.83 per pack. Does that sound outrageous? Well compared to other states it’s really not. For instance, in Wisconsin the tax is already $2.52 per pack. If you smoke in New York? You’re shelling out an extra $4.35 per pack. I’d reach for the Nicorette if I lived in New York, but that’s just me. Hypnotherapy? Seems to me – and I’m just a dude with a blog, mind you – that this sort of move was always inevitable. Did anyone really believe you could raise that much money on electronic pull tabs? Seems that was more of a holding pattern kind of idea than anything. Throw that bogus scheme out there and buy some time to think of something legit. And of course the “legit” idea is a tax. Cause it was always going to be a tax. Cause taxes are how you pay for big expensive projects. So the Vikings will get their stadium and Minnesota smokers will be lighter in the wallet. When the stadium is finally built and needs a cute nickname, just call it The House That Cancer Built. Show your tracheotomy scar, get in free! Like The Viking Age on Facebook. Follow TVA on Twitter. Get the all-new FanSided iPhone app. Subsribe to the Fansided Daily Newsletter. Sports news all up in your inbox.

Featured Vikings Post From Around The Web There are lots of wonderful Vikings web sites on the net that every now and then I feel the need to re-post some of the things that I come across. Enjoy! 12,000,000 We’ve done it again, ladies and gentlemen. . .and with the issues and some other things we’ve all had going on in recent days, I didn’t even notice it for about ten days or so. Yes, we rolled past another million on the traffic calculator. Unless my math is off, we actually hit the 12,000,000 visit mark sometime back on May 8. I know that these might be getting a little repetitive and what not, but that’s just because we’ve been hitting them so rapidly recently that they have been becoming more frequent. As always, the most important part of this entire equation is you awesome readers out there. With the Open Threads that we’ve been doing recently, we have a lot of people hanging out and talking about various topics, and it seems like this is becoming more and more of a community than just a random group of guys and gals commenting on the Minnesota Vikings. That’s been the goal all along. We’ve also gotten to branch out even further, with Arif and Eric getting to be part of various interviews and things like that leading up to the draft and the stadium reveal. Hopefully we can just continue to get bigger and bigger and continue bringing you the kind of coverage that you’ve come to expect from us. We’ve been at ” >”> …[click the link below to read the rest of the article] The rest of the article can be found here: Daily Norseman – All Posts Tweet This Post

Neighbors shared mixed reviews on the new Vikings stadium design, but welcomed its neighborhood impact.

There's no offseason like the NFL offseason! After fans watch the yearly rigged Super Bowl, they wait impatiently for major events such as watching head coaches get the hammer, NFL Free Agency, and everyone's favorite annual NFL Draft. The Vikings did their best to address each hole to the best of their ability during the draft and free agency. Its hard to argue with Greg Jennings and three first round draft selections, however, it is widely considered that the only hole the Vikings may not have addressed during the main portion of the NFL offseason is Middle Linebacker. The MLB spot is sometimes called the QB of Defense and apparently, there is a huge question at Quarterback! On defense! The way many Vikings fans see it, there are three obvious scenarios. A) Brian Urlacher Its not the most likely scenario, but the first possibility is to sign Brian Urlacher to a one year deal. Brian Urlacher is an expected NFL hall of famer. The first approach the Vikings could take is to sign one of the best middle linebackers in NFL history. Urlacher may be on the decline, but he would give the Vikings more veteran leadership on defense at one of the most important positions on defense. What else could signing Brian Urlacher do for the Vikings? Well, it would allow Erin Henderson to stay put at his position at outside linebacker. This would also keep the Vikings from rushing the rookie, Hodges and even Mauti or Audi Cole into the starting lineup. B) Erin Henderson This may be the most likely scenario at middle linebacker, as the Vikings are already preparing to go in this direction. According to recent news, Erin Henderson is preparing to make the switch to middle linebacker, like his brother and former Viking, E.J Henderson. Erin Henderson is still young at 26 with six years of experience and big enough to play the position at 6'3 and weighing in at around 245 pounds. Henderson was a serviceable starter at outside linebacker this season for the Vikings, totaling 80 tackles, 3 sacks, and 1 forced fumble. Part of this scenario would most likely include starting the Viking's rookie and fourth round draft pick, Gerald Hodges at outside linebacker. According to reports, Hodges appears to be on the right track, based on his performance at the Viking's offseason training activities. C) Michael Mauti This scenario would likely keep Erin Henderson at his current position at outside linebacker or Gerald Hodges at outside linebacker. Michael Mauti was one of the Viking's three seventh round draft selections. It seems unlikely that a seventh round pick with no NFL experience may be starting at the Quarterback of Defense, but Michael Mauti is a true leader and a very good football player. For those of you that don't know, Michael Mauti had the potential to be a first round draft pick, if not for the injuries, which include several knee injuries, but apparently Rick Spielman thought that Mauti was too good of a football player to not draft. Michael Mauti was the leader and star of Penn State's defense, not to mention, teammate to another Viking's rookie, Gerald Hodges. While Mauti was out with injury, his team honored their leader by wearing his number on their helmets. Not only was he a star football player, but he emerged as one of the leaders to help trudge his team through the Penn State football scandal. Michael Mauti is a great player, though hammered with injuries, this guy is a fierce competitor with the talent and instincts to be our QB on defense. If he's ready to play, then he could make 31 general managers kick themselves in the ass for passing him up seven times. There's no offseason like the NFL offseason! After fans watch the yearly rigged Super Bowl, they wait impatiently for major events such as watching head coaches get the hammer, NFL Free Agency, and everyone's favorite annual NFL Draft. The Vikings did their best to address each hole to the best of their ability during the draft and free agency. Its hard to argue

We've done it again, ladies and gentlemen. . .and with the issues and some other things we've all had going on in recent days, I didn't even notice it for about ten days or so. Yes, we rolled past another million on the traffic calculator. Unless my math is off, we actually hit the 12,000,000 visit mark sometime back on May 8. I know that these might be getting a little repetitive and what not, but that's just because we've been hitting them so rapidly recently that they have been becoming more frequent. As always, the most important part of this entire equation is you awesome readers out there. With the Open Threads that we've been doing recently, we have a lot of people hanging out and talking about various topics, and it seems like this is becoming more and more of a community than just a random group of guys and gals commenting on the Minnesota Vikings. That's been the goal all along. We've also gotten to branch out even further, with Arif and Eric getting to be part of various interviews and things like that leading up to the draft and the stadium reveal. Hopefully we can just continue to get bigger and bigger and continue bringing you the kind of coverage that you've come to expect from us. We've been at this for nearly seven years now. . .I can't believe it, either. . .and yet this site (along with the rest of SB Nation) is still on a serious upward trajectory. Also, I need to give myself credit for surrounding myself with such an amazing group of people over the time that this site has been online. Ted, Eric, Kyle, Skol Girl, Mark, and Arif each provide such awesome and unique stuff to this site on a regular basis and has played a big role into shaping this little corner of the internet into what it is today. The Daily Norseman wouldn't be what it is today without each and every one of them, as well as the contributors that have been here in the past and have moved on to other things. Thanks again for your patronage, ladies and gentlemen, and we hope that you'll continue coming back for even more news and opinion about our favorite football team.

As we mentioned a couple of days ago, Minnesota Vikings rookie wide receiver Cordarrelle Patterson is at the NFLPA Rookie Premiere this weekend. The event is taking place at the Rose Bowl in Los Angeles, with 40 NFL rookies taking part in the festivities. Many of them are getting their pictures taken for trading cards and things of that nature during the event. We have a couple of pictures of the new #84 at the event that we thought we'd share here with you. The first one appears to be of him posing for a picture for one of the cards I mentioned or something. Picture comes courtesy of the Twitter account of Sports Cards Uncensored. Someone tell me that these new uniforms are anything but awesome. Because you, sir or ma'am, are incorrect. They are outstanding. Here's another one of Patterson posing for a picture. This one comes from the Twitter account of the folks at Topps. The last one comes from our man on the scene in Los Angeles, Ryan van Bibber. It's Patterson apparently playing catch with someone and sporting a pretty nice pair of shades. Though I will say that, with the sunglasses and the hair, it does give him a bit of a "Stevie Wonder" look, which may not be a good thing for a wide receiver. Hopefully we'll have more from Patterson from the Rookie Premiere here in the next day or two.

FEATURED POST I love sharing my thoughts about the Vikings on this page, but since I visit so many other Vikings websites, here and there it just makes more sense to link to what somebody else is saying about the Vikings. Even though,Although I hope you come to this site often for your Minnesota Vikings news and info, I still appreciate all of the other great sites around the web, and I want to share what some of them have to say as well. Here is an article that I thought you might want to read: So, About That Vikings Stadium Funding Alright, folks. . .it looks like the sites are officially back up and running with no issues. We apologize to all of our readers out there that have had difficulty getting to us for the past couple of days. While we were having problems, it appears that the state of Minnesota might have solved their problem of coming up with sufficient funding for a new Minnesota Vikings‘ stadium. The solution is two-fold, and it was introduced by Governor Mark Dayton on Friday. The first is an increase on cigarette taxes, which will bump the tax on a pack of smokes from $ 1.23 per pack to $ 2.83 per pack. I can’t imagine this being too terribly popular with the smoking crowd. . .it would make the price of a carton go up by $ 16. . .and would give Minnesota one of the highest cigarette taxes in the nation. The other part of the equation would involve closing a corporate “tax avoidance” loophole. According to the state’s revenue commissioner, raising the cigarette tax by itself would generate $ 24.5 million a year in additional revenue, which ” >”> …[click the link below to read the rest of the article] The rest of the article can be found here: Daily Norseman – All Posts GO VIKINGS! Tweet This Post

Hey Vikings Fans! Here is a batch of Vikings articles from around the web that you might be interested in. Is Chad Greenway Legitimately a Top 100 Player? Okay NFL. You put the top 100 players thing out there to generate conversation during the deadest part of the offseason? I’ll bite. Let’s discuss Chad Greenway being selected as the 70th best player in the NFL. I think I’ve made my feelings … Urlacher close to signing ? He says yes, while Vikings say no. The Minnesota Vikings and former Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher seem to have a distinctly different take on current negotiations between the two.  According to Urlacher, both the Vikings and the Broncos have made firm offers that he is currently … So, About That Vikings Stadium Funding Alright, folks. . .it looks like the sites are officially back up and running wi… Greenway Part Of ‘Top 100 Players Of 2013? In today’s NFL, linebackers don’t seem to get a lot of credit unless they’re known as pass rushing specialists.  However, when the NFL players voted on the “Top 100 Players of 2013″ list, they did not forget about Ch… Vikings Fans! Enter The New Era Photo Day Contest! New Era, the official on-field headwear of the National Football League, is teaming up with the NFL to launch the Back to Football Photo Day contest. So what this means is that Vikings fans will now have the chance to join the ranks of Adrian Peters… The Vikings’ Greatest Moment Ever at TCF Bank Stadium The Vikings will have to play for two years at TCF Bank Stadium before their brand new awesome sun splashed airy somewhat futuristic facility is ready to go. But of course the Vikes already have some experience at TCF. They played that one game th… Tweet This Post