Vikings vs. Eagles

Sunday, December 16th was very cold.  Like minus 2 degrees cold.  Despite the weather, we tailgated in our usual lot one more time before our big tailgate party, The Cherrie Jones Tailgate Party which is tomorrow and will be even colder.

We spent a lot of time in the car warming up but we still spent time outside and cooked our food on the grill which took a long time.  Our menu was BBQ pulled beef and mashed potatoes.  Yum.

Construction taking place where the new stadium will be, just east of Gate B and C

It was much warmer inside the dome.  Adrian Peterson didn't play.  Toby Gerhart didn't play.  A barely known running back named Matt Asiata scored 3 touchdowns throughout the game.  Cassel also passed a nice 57 yarder for a  touchdown to Greg Jennings in the first quarter and would pass another Cordarrelle Patterson for a touchdown and Cassel would run another in himself.  I did not think this game was winnable for us going into the game but we ended up winning, in fact, destroying the Eagles 48-30.  

Like my impressions of the cartoon Viking and Viktor?

                         

At halftime, they had a ceremony for the All-Metrodome Team.  This was a team comprised of players throughout the entire 32 seasons of football in the Metrodome, as voted by the fans.  Many of the players voted on this team were in attendance and announced in front of us including Jared Allen, Joey Browner, Anthony Carter, Daunte Culpepper, Chris Doleman, Chad Greenway, Robert Griffith, Steve Hutchinson, Steve Jordan, Chris Kluwe, Ryan Longwell, Randall McDaniel, Adrian Peterson, John Randle, Robert Smith, Scott Studwell, Chris Walsh and Kevin Williams.  Others that were voted to the team but could not attend was Matt Birk, Cris Carter, Dennis Green, Percy Harvin, Tim Irwin, Carl Lee, Ed McDaniel, Randy Moss, Antoine Winfield and Gary Zimmerman. That's to the best of my knowledge...there may have been one or two that I named in attendance that wasn't there or vice versa.