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Joe Webb
With Adrian Peterson out of the game on the 1st play of the 2nd Half, and Christan Ponder out on the 2nd play of the 2nd half with a helmet to helmet hit; injuries looked like they might an insurmountable hurdle for the Vikes.
Then Joe Webb comes in, we were down 10 to 13. He completed 80% of his passes including 2 Touchdowns, and also ran 5 times for 34 yards and a touchdown. His QB Rating for the game was an almost perfect 158.3. His performance was enough to lift the Vikes out of the 6 game losing streak, and to a 33 to 26 win.
Joe has an intense energy and can avoid the sack as well as any quarterback we have seen.
We cannot wait to see more out of Webb next season.
Thursday, October 1, 2009 Week 4 NFL picks: Longtime Vikes' fan gets a shot Youngman column: 'Favre Week' draws a lot of attention, especially from the So-Called Expert. By RANDY YOUNGMAN The Orange County Register
This is the week Brett Favre has been looking forward to for two years, the reason he came out of retirement twice – to lead the Minnesota Vikings against the Green Bay Packers, his former team, on Monday night at the Minneapolis Metrodome.
That's why this week's guest prognosticator had to be a rabid Vikings fan.
Randy Wold of Cypress, also known as the "Minnesota Maniac," more than fits that description. He was born in Moorhead, Minn. ("It's right across the river from Fargo, N.D.," he said) and moved with his family to Anaheim in 1958.
But Wold, 58, has never stopped rooting for his beloved Vikings, his allegiance not even wavering during the four Super Bowl losses or the heavily favored Vikings' crushing overtime loss to Atlanta in the 1999 NFC title game that kept his team out of the Super Bowl.
He's a longtime member of the Southern California Viking Club (see scvc.com), which convenes at Northwood Pizza in Irvine to watch all Vikings games. And it's obvious he bleeds purple. He also likes to reminisce about the time he picked up former Vikings coach Bud Grant at the airport and about playing in a charity golf tournament with former Vikings quarterback Tommy Kramer.
"Everybody in our family is a big Viking fan," Wold said, saying he and wife Janice have four children and nine grandchildren, all of whom have been properly trained to root for the Vikings.
Randy and his brothers have owned and operated an auto repair business in Cypress for nearly four decades, though he had to sell his share when he was afflicted with debilitating fibromyalgia in 2001.
The Wold brothers also have a drag-racing team called "Purple Reign Racing (see purplereignracing.net) – it was named in honor of the Vikings defense, of course– and all of their race cars are purple. At one time, Randy even wore a Vikings helmet while racing his prized 1979 Camaro Z-28.
As you can imagine, Wold is still basking in the glow of Favre's last-second touchdown pass to beat the 49ers last week, which kept the Vikings undefeated.
"It was amazing!" he said. "I've seen him do that to the Vikings so many times."
And now he's hoping Favre can do the same thing to the Packers.
Click on MORE PHOTOS on the webpage (link below) to see my picks, noting the three games on which Wold and I disagree:
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