{"id":34563,"date":"2016-04-15T02:00:42","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T06:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=34563"},"modified":"2016-04-14T21:33:36","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T01:33:36","slug":"jared-allen-returns-to-the-vikings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2016\/04\/15\/jared-allen-returns-to-the-vikings\/","title":{"rendered":"Jared Allen returns to the Vikings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Viking_Head.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Viking_Head\" width=\"80\" height=\"81\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10672\" \/>On Thursday, former Viking great Jared Allen signed a new contract to <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/15203766\/jared-allen-retires-minnesota-vikings\" target=\"_blank\">return to Minnesota<\/a>. For one day, anyway:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Crediting the team for the fondest memories of his career and reflecting on the life changes that happened in six years with the Minnesota Vikings, Jared Allen signed a one-day contract with the team so he could officially retire as a member of the organization.<\/p>\n<p>Allen, who played in Super Bowl 50 with the Carolina Panthers and announced his retirement two weeks after the Panthers&#8217; loss, will finalize his retirement on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In my heart, when it was all said and done, I knew I wanted to retire as a Viking,&#8221; Allen said in a conference call. &#8220;I&#8217;ve always kept in contact with [general manager] Rick [Spielman] and [vice president of football operations] Rob [Brzezinski]. It was one of those mutual things.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You go through life, and there&#8217;s a maturation process,&#8221; Allen said. &#8220;I made some mistakes early in my career, and you learn from those and you grow from them. Minnesota was a place that helped me grow as a man. &#8230; When I got there, I was in the process of changing some habits and growing up. To have guys that are doing it right around you is phenomenal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Allen left the Vikings following the 2013 season, when the team shifted its defensive scheme and began the search for a new quarterback under coach Mike Zimmer. After a difficult 2014 season with the Bears, Allen was traded to the Panthers last fall, and became a regular contributor to the league&#8217;s sixth-ranked defense. Allen has praised the atmosphere created by Panthers coach Ron Rivera &#8212; a former teammate of Frazier&#8217;s in Chicago &#8212; but said it would have been sweeter had he made a Super Bowl appearance with the Vikings, who lost the 2010 NFC Championship Game to the New Orleans Saints in overtime.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, former Viking great Jared Allen signed a new contract to return to Minnesota. For one day, anyway: Crediting the team for the fondest memories of his career and reflecting on the life changes that happened in six years with the Minnesota Vikings, Jared Allen signed a one-day contract with the team so he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[449,126,179],"class_list":["post-34563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","tag-jaredallen","tag-minnesotavikings","tag-nfl"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8Zt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34564,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34563\/revisions\/34564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}