MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — E.J. Henderson recovered a Jamaal Charles fumble about three minutes into tonight’s football game and it was time for Minnesota Vikings fans to go nuts.
The Vikes refused to introduce a starting offence or defence tonight. Instead, Vikings head coach Brad Childress waited until the Vikes got control of the football to trot out the team’s new messiah. In fact, the entire offence ran out onto the field, before Brett Favre came out all by himself.
With that, about 60,000 people rose to their feet in what seemed to be a creepy sort of Scandinavian adulation. After 16 years in the wilderness (I love that), Brett was finally one of them.
On his first series, he completed one of two passes for four yards and then Adrian Peterson was stopped short of a first donw on fourth-and-one.
There was already grumbling.
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