Darren Boyle's weekly words of wisdom the adventures of VSK chapter two

The Vikings are 2-0, after their scrimmage with the Lions yesterday. Although they trailed 10-7 at the half they took care of business with 20 unanswered points. VSK's performance would be best described as "Dilferesque" (thanks Brian's brother Brett). Game management beats the Browns and Lions, but can it beat teams that can play defense. We will find out Sunday when the purple play the 49ers, noon kickoff on KPLO/KMLO by the way. This weeks games told us that the Packers, Patriots, Steelers and Cowboys arent as good as we thought, and the Bears,Ravens,49ers and Giants are as good as advertised. And as long as Norv Turner is a head coach in the NFL, Raider fans will have someone to laugh at. Wasnt the Ravens-Chargers game a perfect example of how a team can beat themselves? My esteemed colleage Mr. Fisher is a little bit too reluctant to get on the Jay Cutler bandwagon, he played much better this weekend. I believe he is the best QB the Bears have had since Jim McMahon. As far as Kyle Orton and the Broncos being 2-0, they got lucky once and then played the Browns. They should be 2-0, in the same circumstances they would have been 2-0 with Chris Simms as QB. I caught the tailend of the NASCAR race yesterday, Mark Martin got the win and extended his lead in the point standings but the most interesting thing to me is the sound bites from Dale Jr. who got wrecked by David Reutemann while he was having his best run in weeks. He actually was ticked off. Not the calm, measured responses we heard from him when he has had his issues this season maybe he is starting to become tired of his own performance this season and will turn things around. I am not a Dale Jr fan but as much scrutiny his career has been under over the last couple of seasons you cant help but root for the guy. On the highschool level,we saw Gettysburg bounce back from their loss to Eureka-Bowdle by defeating Kimball. Also, Sully Buttes handled Eureka Bowdle quite handily last Friday night. Does this mean that the Chargers will have little trouble with the Battlers when they play in a few weeks? We will find out together, that matchup happens to be on the KPLO schedule. I am going to try a double header this Friday, Miller @ Crow Creek in the afternoon and then Platte-Geddes-Dakota Christian vs. Chamberlain Friday night. Hope you enjoy our coverage. Do you think that VSK will play for the Cowboys next season? Just a thought.