Minnesota

Brett Favre was displaying odd behavior in the hours after suffering a concussion during Monday night’s Bears-Vikings game. Most noteworthy was when he retreated to his apartment for his usual round of X-rated text messaging only to make a huge mistake and actually send them to his wife.

The Bears clinched the NFC North with a convincing win over the Vikings behind a punishing defensive assault at the frozen TCF Bank Stadium. Surprisingly, key members of the team showed mercy to someone, albeit their own coaching staff, when they refused a traditional celebratory Gatorade shower of Lovie Smith and his cohorts as the clock wound down on their 40-14 victory.

Ticketmaster today sent an email to customers who bought Vikings tickets for Monday night's game against the Bears to remind them about the game telling them it's still happening at the Metrodome, even though the venue has been ruled out all week due to a roof collapse last week.

As the Vikings scramble to prepare the University of Minnesota's undersized stadium for Monday night's game against the Bears, many football observers are wondering why the contest won't be held at one of the several other Midwestern NFL stadiums. Turns out each has a reason it can't host the game.

With the Bears and Vikings game on Monday night apparently being moved to the University of Minnesota campus, Vikings players believe they still have home-field advantage due to the game being played in-state. Not so, says a few veteran Bears.

The Vikings today purchased the world's largest roll of duct tape in a feverish attempt to patch the Metrodome roof in time for Monday night's Bears game against the Bears.