Last Sunday’s Vikings-Saints epic illustrated everything wonderful and demoralizing about America’s Game. 44 years of futility being erased with a single kick that could not have split the uprights more perfectly..

I have been a critic of Bryant McKinnie’s long before I started writing here at Vikings Gab.  In fact, I have such a lack of appreciation for the Vikings starting left tackle that I often times fail to give him credit when he deserves it.  When my failure to give McKinnie his props gets noted

If you want even further proof that nobody really cares about the NFL Pro Bowl, we give you the newest case. One Bryant McKinnie of the Minnesota Vikings, who unlike most of his NFL brethren, didn't beg out of the game due to injury.

Vikings left tackle Bryant McKinnie has been dismissed from the NFC Pro Bowl squad after missing four of five practices and attending just one team meeting. According to the Minneapolis Star Tribune, McKinnie also missed the team photo. McKinnie has been Tweetering (or is it Tweeting?

Sounds as if Vikings left tackle Bryant McKinnie isn't all that concerned with showing up at Pro Bowl practices.

No Vikings got fined for being dirty in the NFC Championship game. Three Saints were fined a total of $30,000 for hits on Brett Favre that defensive quarter openly admits are well worth the money if the quarterback has to exit the game. Bobby McCray is responsible for the largest fine, at $20,000, for a hit below

The New Orleans defensive lineman was slapped with fines for two hits against Vikings quarterback Brett Favre on Sunday.

From the same Vikings radio team that brought you "This is not Detroit, man" comes this swaggering bit of audio, spoken just moments earlier: "Game's tied at 28.

Premature, unused Vikings (and Jets) conference championship gear is on its way to Haiti. So the Brett Favre coverage continues, in Port-au-Prince at least. [RandBall]

Now that the euphoria of the Saints win over the Vikings and first ever Super Bowl berth has subsided a bit it’s a good time to look at the NFC Championship game more closely. Allot has also been made about the battering that Brett Favre took at the hands of the Saints, football is a contact sport and