Category: Skol from the Sofa
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2023 Week 5 – Minnesota Vikings Vs Kansas City Chiefs
2023 Week 5 Minnesota Vikings vs Kansas City Chiefs By Mark Martin A quarter of the season is gone and I’ve still no idea who the 2023 version of the Purple are. We could be 4-0 or 0-4, but we sit at 1-3. So, it was week five and it was possibly the most…
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2023 Week 4 – Minnesota Vikings @ Carolina Panthers
2023 Week 4 Minnesota Vikings @ Carolina Panthers By Callum “Cee-Jay” Seymour Season back on track baby! Or are we jumping the gun a little bit!? Our beloved Vikings headed to Bank of America Stadium to meet-up with a favourite ex-Viking Adam Thielen. Thankfully for our Boys in White and Purple on…
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2023 Week 3 – Minnesota Vikings Vs Los Angeles Chargers vol 2.
2023 Week 3 Minnesota Vikings vs Los Angeles Chargers By Dave Morgan I honestly don’t know how to feel. I’m a new Vikings fan, last year was my first full season. I barely had any fingers left last year let alone nails, but just now it feels like I’ve found out what it’s really like…
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2023 Week 3 – Minnesota Vikings Vs Los Angeles Chargers
2023 Week 3 Minnesota Vikings vs Los Angeles Chargers By Tim Coveney Why do we put ourselves through this? Week after week of Sunday night stress and anxiety…almost to the point of nervous breakdown…to follow a group of men in purple throwing a pigskin around…taking the game right to the wire and then, this season…
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2023 Week 2 – Minnesota Vikings @ Philadelphia Eagles
2023 Week 2 Minnesota Vikings @ Philadelphia Eagles By Michael “Mick” Hackett After the first game where everyone on the planet expected us to win, we took that on the chin and moved onto the Eagles, nobody gave us a chance! I was hopeful but realistically I couldn’t see a way after the demolition…
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2023 Week 1 – Minnesota Vikings vs Tampa Bay Buccaneers
2023 Week 1 Minnesota Vikings vs Tampa Bay Buccaneers By Tim Coveney The Vikings begin the season with a crushing defeat that ends all hope of relevance as potential Super Bowl champions – again. If we can’t beat the Buccaneers clearly, we’re going to lose every game this year and finish with an 8-9 mid…
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Skol from the sofa – Volume 8, Bilson Morrissey, Week 16 2022: Minnesota Vikings vs New York Giants
Volume 8, Bilson Morrissey, Week 16 2022: Minnesota Vikings vs New York Giants Our beloved Vikes delivered us an early Christmas present in an all but too familiar fashion to push our impressive record to 12-3. Kevin O’Connell (KOC) now proudly holds the record of most regular season wins by a head coach, in…
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Skol from the sofa – Volume 7, Katie Marriott, Week 16 2022: Minnesota Vikings vs New York Giants
Volume 7, Katie Marriott, Week 16 2022: Minnesota Vikings vs New York Giants As Christmas Eve drew in and we were relaxing with the tree all decorated, presents sitting nicely below and family all gathered around. It might be expected that we were chatting about our lives, playing games and watching the children…
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Skol from the sofa – Volume 6, Amy Boucher Pye, Week 15 2022: Minnesota Vikings vs. The Colts
Volume 6, Amy Boucher Pye, Week 15 2022: Minnesota Vikings vs. The Colts I’m a diehard Vikings fan, having grown up in Minnesota. You ask how did I spend my first anniversary in England? By dragging my new husband to a pub in Norfolk to watch the NFC title game against the Falcons. (This…
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Skol from the sofa – Volume 5, Rob Barton, Week 14 2022: Minnesota Vikings vs. The Detroit Lions
Volume 5, Rob Barton, Week 14 2022: Minnesota Vikings vs. The Detroit Lions In the lead up to this game, I read many posts about how it was disrespectful to the Vikings for us to be 10-2 underdogs against a 5-7 team in Detroit. A game where the Vikings could clinch the division! It wasn’t…