Amid a global pandemic, the world hasn’t felt normal for a while now. The return of football won’t make everything better, but maybe, just maybe, it will help us all feel like things are starting to look up.
On Sunday, September 13, the Minnesota Vikings will start their march towards a championship against their rivals from across the border, the Green Bay Packers. The Vikings are currently favored by 2.5 points, mainly because this game will be played in Minneapolis, but there won’t be any fans in the stadium so any home-field advantage will be minimal.
The Packers drafted a quarterback in the first round this year, and while that might have made Vikings fans chuckle, it undoubtedly made Aaron Rodgers enraged. He will be on a mission this season to prove his doubters wrong, and the Vikings – with their young and inexperienced cornerback group – just might be in trouble.
The game plan for the Vikings will be simple: chew up the clock while on offense and unleash their talented pass rushers on defense. As of now Danielle Hunter is still recovering from some unknown injury and hasn’t been practicing, and Yannick Ngakoue just got to Minnesota so he will take some time to learn the playbook.
Add it all up, and this could be a rough game for the Vikings. Yet with how strange everything has been this year, who knows what will happen. Either way, we’ll be here cheering on the purple and gold! Skol!