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Vikings Hire Pottymouth
The Vikings have hired Bengals defensive coordinator Mike Zimmer to be their next coach, according to every football reporter you follow on Twitter. It's his first head coaching gig after being passed over numerous times in a 20-year NFL career. ...

Chris Kluwe Says Wishing Unemployment On Mike Priefer Was "Too Harsh"
In his column alleging that Vikings special teams coach Mike Preifer used homophobic slurs and pushed him off the team, Chris Kluwe said he wanted to make sure Priefer "never holds a coaching position again in the NFL, and ideally never coaches at any level." He's backing off that a bit....

Vikings Launch Independent Investigation Of Chris Kluwe's Claims
Yesterday, the Vikings promised a review of Chris Kluwe's allegations that he was released in part due to his public comments supporting gay rights, and that assistant coach Mike Priefer used homophobic language in team meetings. Today the team revealed more details, and they're bringing in the big ...

Mike Priefer Denies He Is A Bigot
Minnesota Vikings special teams coordinator Mike Priefer has issued a statement in response to former Vikings punter Chris Kluwe's accusation that he is a bigot who once said, "We should round up all the gays, send them to an island, and then nuke it until it glows." In the statement, Priefer claims...

Vikings Vow To Investigate Chris Kluwe's Allegations
The Vikings have released a statement reacting to Chris Kluwe's article from earlier today, in which he alleged that he was released from the team in part because of his outspoken support of gay rights, and accused assistant coach Mike Priefer of being an outright homophobic bigot. The statement rea...

I Was An NFL Player Until I Was Fired By Two Cowards And A Bigot
Hello. My name is Chris Kluwe, and for eight years I was the punter for the Minnesota Vikings. In May 2013, the Vikings released me from the team. At the time, quite a few people asked me if I thought it was because of my recent activism for same-sex marriage rights, and I was very careful in how I ...

T-Wolves Radio Announcer Flips His Shit After Game-Ending No-Call
Last night's Mavericks-Timberwolves game ended on what appears to be an egregious non-call. With just three seconds left on the clock and the T-Wolves down by two points, Kevin Love's potentially game-winning shot was snuffed out by Shawn Marion. It looks like Marion hacked Love's arm on the shot, ...

Minnesota Was <i>This</i> Close To Winning The Texas Bowl
Ohhhh. Syracuse wins. ...

Ricky Rubio Victimizes Nicolas Batum With A Magic Pass
We've all seen Ricky Rubio make plenty of amazing passes, but here's another one that is worthy of our attention and praise....

Vikings Fan Is Really Bad At Heckling Bradley Fletcher
In case you didn't figure it out, Bradley, this guy doesn't think you did a good job. He was being sarcastic....

Vikings Center John Sullivan Playing With A Shake Weight
The Vikings released a video with the central premise being that Adrian Peterson is terrible at giving gifts. In the video, Adrian Peterson gives teammates terrible gifts. Rather than show the video, we just made GIFs out of the parts where John Sullivan plays with his gift, which, as you can see ab...

Hockey Player Waves To Child, Child Can't Stop Smiling
These pictures, of a young Wild fan melting in response to a wave from Charlie Coyle, made the rounds earlier this week. Now the NHL has shared the video from Sunday's game, and it's just as adorable....

Fuck Your Fantanking
Drew Magary’s Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday during the NFL season. Email Drew here. ...

ESPN Says The Ravens (Who Won) Had A Sub-Zero Chance Of Winning
The graph above, tweeted out by ESPN Stats & Info last night, shows the win probability for the Ravens and Vikings over the fourth quarter of their ridiculous Sunday game, which saw five lead changes in the final two minutes....

Here's A Story About LeBron Being Really Nice To A T-Wolves Fan's Mom
Here's a nice story from a Reddit user who sits courtside at Timberwolves games about how LeBron James was really nice to his mom on multiple occasions. Suck it, LeBron haters....

Adrian Peterson Says Baltimore Has "The Worst Fans In The NFL"
Just a horrible day all around for Adrian Peterson, who exited in the second quarter with a foot injury and had a prime seat for late-game nuttiness that saw the lead change six times in the fourth quarter. Peterson vented afterwards, splitting his anger between officials and fans....

Adrian Peterson Leaves Game In Pain After Serious Lower Leg Injury
Vikings running back Adrian Peterson left today's game after injuring his right leg as Ravens linebacker Arthur Brown tackled him....

Drunk Vikings Fan Tumbles Down Seats, Spills Beer
You'll want headphones for this one. NSFW language, but perfect commentary for the perfect Vikings fan....

Mexico City Smoke-Out Only Second Strangest Delay In Spurs History
The NBA's "Global Games" are off to a hilarious start. I mean, it wasn't funny for the 22,000 Mexico City fans who didn't get a chance to watch the Spurs and Timberwolves thanks to the arena filling up with smoke, but images like Tony Parker masking up and rushing into a burning building are pretty ...

Here's The Smoky Arena Before The Wolves-Spurs Game
You had one job, Mexico City. One. Job....