{"id":964,"date":"2009-09-13T11:30:56","date_gmt":"2009-09-13T15:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=964"},"modified":"2009-09-13T11:30:56","modified_gmt":"2009-09-13T15:30:56","slug":"are-they-the-big-story-in-the-nfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/09\/13\/are-they-the-big-story-in-the-nfl\/","title":{"rendered":"Are they the big story in the NFL?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/sports\/vikings\/59076987.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Souhan<\/a> looks at whether the Minnesota Vikings can turn all that potential into solid achievement:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>This is a unique day in Vikings history.<\/p>\n<p>Today, the first Sunday of the 2009 NFL season, the Vikings become the biggest story in the most popular sport in America for a reason other than an epic loss or an embarrassing scandal.<\/p>\n<p>Today, the Vikings present a Hall of Fame quarterback who is a defector from their greatest rival and will lead one of the most talented teams in football.<\/p>\n<p>Today, your Vikings will not be the franchise of Super Bowl losses, championship game chokes, 41-0, Love Boat, Ticketgate, Denny Green&#8217;s homemade videos and myriad arrests.<\/p>\n<p>Today, your Vikings become the biggest story in the NFL because of what they are capable of doing, not what they are chagrined to have done.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;ll be able to watch the Vikings-Browns game, but with Buffalo playing on Monday night, there&#8217;s a stronger chance that the Buffalo FOX affiliate will show it in our area. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Souhan looks at whether the Minnesota Vikings can turn all that potential into solid achievement: This is a unique day in Vikings history. Today, the first Sunday of the 2009 NFL season, the Vikings become the biggest story in the most popular sport in America for a reason other than an epic loss or [&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":[126,179],"class_list":["post-964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","tag-minnesotavikings","tag-nfl"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-fy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964","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=964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":965,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions\/965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}