{"id":6346,"date":"2010-11-13T12:38:36","date_gmt":"2010-11-13T17:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=6346"},"modified":"2014-05-09T15:23:11","modified_gmt":"2014-05-09T20:23:11","slug":"sidney-rice-to-play-tomorrow-against-chicago-bears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/11\/13\/sidney-rice-to-play-tomorrow-against-chicago-bears\/","title":{"rendered":"Sidney Rice to play tomorrow against Chicago Bears"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to Bleacher Report<\/a>, Vikings wide receiver Sidney Rice will play in tomorrow’s game against Chicago:<\/p>\n

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Sidney declined hip surgery this offseason, despite several doctors strongly recommending he undergo the procedure. As it turns out, this was a foolish decision on Rice’s part.<\/p>\n

Had he undergone the surgery in April, Rice would have been fully healthy when Week 1 rolled around against the New Orleans Saints.<\/p>\n

With that said, the past cannot be changed, but it’s a wonder as to how much better the Vikings would be if they had Favre’s favorite target on the field.<\/p>\n

Had Rice been playing on a weekly basis, Minnesota would’ve never made the acquisition to bring Randy Moss back to the team who drafted him in 1998.<\/p>\n

Minnesota also would still have their third-round-pick in 2011.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

While I can’t blame him for not wanting to undergo a surgical procedure if it wasn’t absolutely necessary, the decision certainly had deep repercussions for his team. It’s not Rice’s fault that all this happened — there’s no guarantee that the team’s record would have been any better if he’d been on the field from the start — but it’s indisputable that him not being available had a domino effect.<\/p>\n

Update, 14 November<\/b>: No, the Vikings didn’t place Rice on their active roster, so he won’t play in today’s game<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to Bleacher Report, Vikings wide receiver Sidney Rice will play in tomorrow’s game against Chicago: Sidney declined hip surgery this offseason, despite several doctors strongly recommending he undergo the procedure. As it turns out, this was a foolish decision on Rice’s part. Had he undergone the surgery in April, Rice would have been fully […]<\/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":[964,126,179,367],"class_list":["post-6346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","tag-chicagobears","tag-minnesotavikings","tag-nfl","tag-sidneyrice"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-1Em","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6346","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=6346"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25493,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6346\/revisions\/25493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}