Chris Kluwe

not the score at 7-7.

At this point was when things started getting weird: After going 3-and-out, Chris Kluwe went back to punt the ball away.  The ball was snapped to him, and he promptly let it slip right out of his hands.  Trying to salvage the play, Kluwe (quite comically, I might add) still tried to get the punt off, but a Bears defender was so close to him that the ball bounced right off the orange defender's chest and Kluwe's leg even hit the guy in the head on the backswing!  The coupe de grace of the play then occurred: as the ball rolled around on the ground, Kluwe decided to kick it forward (an illegal action anyway) instead of just letting a guy fall on it.  The kick, of course, bounces right up into a Bears defender's hands who just happened to have the perfect angle to go into the end zone to give Chicago a 14-7 lead.  Basically, just when you think the Vikes couldn't get any dumber, a play like this transpires.  Let's just say that Kluwe may be updating his resume over the bye week instead of working out at the Dome.

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nalty made the kick more difficult than it needed to be.  So, after one more drive ending with Chris Kluwe, the Vikings got the ball with 4:41 remaining in the game, down by a 10-9 score.  The Vikings moved to nearly midfield with ease, but then a screen pass to Peterson (5-yard loss) and a false start penalty set up a 2nd-and-20 down and distance situation.  On the next play, Frerotte uncorked a deep bomb (in the direction of Berrian, if I'm not mistaken), and while the catch wasn't made, pass-interference was called on the Lions' defender, putting the ball at the Lions' 26 yard line.  After reviewing the replay, it was clear that there was minimal (if any) actual interference on the play, so the Vikings essentially caught a game-winning break, as a few plays later Longwell knocked the game-winning kick through the uprights.

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With respect to Patsy Cline (or Gnarls Barkley, for this generation), the recent Monday Night Football game between the Minnesota Vikings and New Orleans Saints was the epitome of "Crazy".

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