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Vikings Punter Chris Kluwe Explains Why He Thinks Joey Porter Is "A Frothing Dingleberry"
There was so much goodness in our rollicking Chris Kluwe live chat from the other night that it almost seems unfair to single out just one of Kluwe's responses. But one answer in particular caught my eye and demanded some additional details:...

Minnesota Vikings Punter Chris Kluwe Is Here To Take Your Questions
OK, gang. As promised, Chris Kluwe is ready to take shit from you. He's at the Vikings' training camp in Mankato, Minn., waiting on food and hoping a thunderstorm doesn't knock down the dorm the team's staying in. Ask him anything about anything by firing away down in the discussion below. ...

Join Us Tonight At 10 For What Should Be A Lively Discussion With Minnesota Vikings Punter Chris Kluwe
Aside from being an NFL punter, Chris Kluwe is many things. Video gamer. Picture of calm. Maker of parodies. Defender of punters everywhere. Gawker comment troll. And at 10 p.m. (EDT), Kluwe will be right here taking questions directly from Deadspin readers. The floor down in the discussion will be ...

Vikings Punter (And Crossfit Fan) Chris Kluwe Trolled The Shit Out of Gawker Last Night
Yesterday, Gawker's Hamilton Nolan wrote a post that was critical of the Crossfit™ workout regimen for (among other things) being an expensive, injury-inducing cult fad. Nolan was subsequently greeted in the discussion by a lengthy reply from "Loate," who identified himself as "a currently active NF...

Guy Sues Cris Carter Because Cris Carter Allegedly Took A Bunch Of His Money And Didn't Record The Rap Song He Was Promised
The market's not what it once was. Back in the 90s and 2000s, we were promised pain-free growth. Stick that money in Sun, son, and watch it inflate. Now the times are hard. One must turn to unconventional investment opportunities. "Emerging markets," as they say in the business. Markets such as rap ...

Minnesota Governor Says Football Players Get Arrested Because They're Basically Soldiers Returning From War
It's hard to understate how shocking Adrian Peterson's arrest is in Minnesota. It's just a misdemeanor, for a weird sole charge of resisting arrest, and the details of the incident sound less than damning, but this is AP. All Day. Purple Jesus. Peterson has never had even a whiff of trouble, and by ...

Here's Terrible Video That Supposedly Shows Adrian Peterson Getting Handcuffed
There's not a whole lot to glean from this video, but here it is anyway. It looks like a black man is either in cuffs or on his way to being in cuffs, and could possibly be struggling. TMZ helpfully directs your attention to this black man and labels him as Adrian Peterson. the woman recording the i...

Adrian Peterson Reportedly Shoved Off-Duty Cop Working Security At Night Club
According to TMZ, Kase Smith, public information officer for the Houston police department, claims Peterson shoved an off-duty cop who was working as a bouncer in the club he visited last night. The officer/bouncer reportedly told Peterson it was time to leave and Peterson apparently ignored the in...
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Reports: Vikings RB Adrian Peterson Arrested, Charged With Resisting Arrest [UPDATE]
Details are still sketchy but according to the Houston Chronicle, Adrian Peterson may still be in a Houston jail (he's since been released on $1,000 bond) in connection with resisting arrest charges....

Adrian Peterson Is Ranting On Twitter About America's Godlessness
Adrian Peterson is a great, great running back. This we knew. But we never knew before today that the young man was a budding Thomas Aquinas....

Vikings Owner Would Like To Thank The Fans, Who Will Pay For More Than Half Of His New Stadium
Every morning, the fine folks at Sports Radio Interviews sift through the a.m. drive-time chatter to bring you the best interviews with coaches, players, and personalities across the sports landscape. Today: Zygi Wilf wants to kiss Vikings fans after he got a sweetheart deal....

Minnesota Legislature Votes To Hand Over $800 Million So Shitty Football Team Can Build Shitty New Stadium
After several failed proposals and years of threats to relocate, it looks like the Vikings will be staying in Minnesota. The state Senate today passed a bill that would make way for a $975 million stadium, with the Vikings owners kicking in $50 million—a whole $50 million!—more than they had been sa...

Minnesota Vikings Running Back Caleb King May Have Fractured Someone's Skull At A Birthday Party
Caleb King was an undrafted free agent last year from Georgia and spent most of the year on the Vikings practice squad. This weekend he was invited to a birthday party that apparently raged until 3:00 a.m., only to end with King allegedly beating a fellow reveler to such an extent he suffered skull...

The Jaguars Desperately Want You To Believe Everybody Loves Ryan Tannehill
This is how your NFL draft sausage is made, and it's not pretty: with lies and misdirection and identity fraud and a whole lot of desperation....

Jared Allen Wonders Why The NFL Isn't Trying To Make Football Safer For Defensive Players
Every morning, the fine folks at Sports Radio Interviews sift through the a.m. drive-time chatter to bring you the best interviews with coaches, players, and personalities across the sports landscape. Today: Allen has some thoughts on the NFL's crackdown....

Report: The Vikings Are Trying To Hire Bill Parcells
Oh, you thought Bill Parcells was going to babysit the Saints for a year? Not if Zygi Wilf gets his way, says the New York Post:...

$15,000 Says "Brad Johnson Doesn't Finish This Game": More Tales Of Redskins Bounties
The NFL will tell you repeatedly that it's the cover-up, not the crime. That the harshness of the Saints' punishment is due to the lies and obstruction from the higher-ups, even moreso than the actual bounty program. They'll tell you this because they don't want to have to go around investigating an...

The NFL Is Sending Mixed Messages On Bounty Games
Yesterday, NFL.com re-uploaded video of Phillip Daniels trying to rip off Peyton Manning's head, a play Tony Dungy has pointed to as the start of Manning's neck problems. Today the NFL Network nixed a scheduled airing of the 2009 NFC Championship Game, in which Brett Favre suffered knee and ankle in...

Jonathan Vilma Offered $10,000 To Whoever Took Out Brett Favre
More details are coming out about the Saints' bounty program that put dollar values on injuring opposing players. Peter King reports that before the 2010 NFC Championship Game against Minnesota, Jonathan Vilma put up $10,000 of his own money to anyone who took Brett Favre out of the game. Favre wa...

The Vikings' Stadium Whoreathon Will End Where It Started
As a Vikings fan, I have been long conditioned to treat any rumor of an impending stadium deal with a great amount of skepticism. This team has been announcing new stadium "plans" every year since around 1997. Every announced plan was less a formal declaration than a cheap Jedi mind trick. "Hey, if ...