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Minnesota Vikings News and Rumors

Ponder and Winfield expected to play for Vikings

CNNSI.com

The Minnesota Vikings have listed quarterback Christian Ponder and cornerback Antoine Winfield as questionable for their playoff game on Saturday against Green Bay.

startribune.com

The Vikings' biggest pass play of the season came from, of all things, an incompletion from a game that didn't even involve them.

Kevin Kaduk, yahoo.com

It probably isn't a good thing to make Adrian Peterson angry, but a bar in Green Bay is going ahead and doing it any way before the Packers' big wild-card playoff game against the Minnesota Vikings on Saturday night. The above picture was snapped in an …

Michael David Smith, profootballtalk.com

When preparing to play any other running back, an opposing defense might talk about totally shutting him down. But against Vikings running back Adrian Peterson, the Packers have set a goal that is not nearly that lofty. “We aren’t giving up 200 again,…

ESPN.com

OK gang. The time has come to ship off across the frozen plains, get myself to Green Bay and begin final preparations for Saturday night's NFC North-exclusive wild-card playoff game between the Minnesota Vikings and Green Bay Packers. I'll check in when…

startribune.com

Are you ready for Joe Webb? Just kidding ... we think.

ESPN.com

Five nuggets of knowledge about Saturday's Minnesota Vikings-Green Bay Packers wild-card game: Frozen tundra: You've already heard plenty of national nostalgia about playing a night game in freezing temperatures at one of the NFL's most sacred cathedral…

startribune.com

With a playoff clash between the Packers and Vikings coming Saturday night, we once again enlisted Tyler Dunne of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel to provide a scouting report on Green Bay.

ESPN.com

A few of you have suggested I've been a bit negative toward the Green Bay Packers' chances of winning Saturday night's wild-card playoff game against the Minnesota Vikings. For me, this week has been about presenting some undeniable facts in context, fr…

Doug Farrar, yahoo.com

For the second time in six days, and the third time this season, the Green Bay Packers and Minnesota Vikings will face off. This time, the stakes are higher for both teams, and having split their NFC North series so far, the longtime rivals will see who…