{"id":39465,"date":"2017-08-01T01:00:47","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T05:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=39465"},"modified":"2017-07-22T10:25:14","modified_gmt":"2017-07-22T14:25:14","slug":"qotd-nfl-preseason-game-passion-and-intensity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/08\/01\/qotd-nfl-preseason-game-passion-and-intensity\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: NFL preseason game passion and intensity"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The NFL pre-season is getting underway, with teams using their matchups to assess the rookies and free agents who all hope to make the team. The Vikings played the Arizona Cardinals in Minnesota on Saturday night. The new coach of the Cardinals was formerly the head coach of the Vikings. The Cardinals had a last-second, fourth-down, desperation play in the last regular season game which knocked the Vikings out of the playoff race. There was thought to be plenty of incipient drama to this game. <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/mld\/twincities\/sports\/football\/9405188.htm\">This article in the St. Paul Pioneer Press<\/a> talks about the lack of excitement in the game:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><strong>Last and best sign it&#8217;s the preseason<\/strong>: The Vikings were offside on a fourth-quarter kickoff. Twice. In succession.<\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Reposted from the old blog (no longer online), 2004-08-15.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NFL pre-season is getting underway, with teams using their matchups to assess the rookies and free agents who all hope to make the team. The Vikings played the Arizona Cardinals in Minnesota on Saturday night. The new coach of the Cardinals was formerly the head coach of the Vikings. The Cardinals had a last-second, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"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":[26,57,41],"tags":[56,126,179],"class_list":["post-39465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","category-humour","category-quotations","tag-arizona","tag-minnesotavikings","tag-nfl"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-agx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39465","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=39465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39466,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39465\/revisions\/39466"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}