Minnesota Twins & Vikes Flying High

The Monday Night Football game this week featured a special match-up of divisional rivals. The Minnesota Vikings played the Green Bay Packers in a game that lived up to the hype. What made the game so spectacular was QB Brett Favre playing against his former team for the first time as a Viking. Talk about anticipation.

Packers QB Aaron Rodgers stood his ground in the loud and proud Metrodome of Minneapolis. Rodgers would make some plays with his arm as well as his legs, but the Vikings defense would pressure him all evening and with pressure mistakes happen.

The game was an exciting clash of two teams who obviously know each other well. Rodgers finished 26 of 37 for 384 yards 2 touchdowns and 1 interception. Those interceptions were no fluke, the Vikings defense came out hungry for a victory and would finish with 8 sacks.

There were many heroes in the Vikings win, one being defensive end Jared Allen with 4.5 sacks and a forced fumble on the night. But it was Brett Favre who stole the show with his pinpoint passing and generalship of the field. Favre went 24 of 31 for 271 yards and no interceptions. The night for Brett was just another game, but for us watching it was a historic sports event featuring one of the greatest quarterbacks to ever have played the game. No signs of retirement in Brett's game, that's for sure. Vikings are an undefeated 4-0 on the season.

Final Score
Vikings 30
Packers 23

The following afternoon the same loud and proud crowd in the Metrodome would cheer their Minnesota Twins baseball team in a one game playoff for the AL Central Division championship. Their opponent would be division rival Detroit Tigers who were trying to avoid a late season collapse that would rate right up there with some of the greatest sports collapses of all-time. The Twins had won the last 17 out of 21 and were miraculously in it for the division crown.

The game was a thing of beauty, a back and forth struggle with all the ingredients to appear of MLB Classic games sometime in the future. Controversial calls, big-time defensive plays, every hit game altering and every pitch a nail biter. Both teams played the game like it was the most important game of their lives and afterward many players expressed it being the greatest competitive game they'd ever been involved with.

Unfortunately, someone had to lose the game, but it would take extra innings before it would be decided. Both teams are to be commended for an incredible display of playoff baseball to kick off October. If you missed this battle I suggest you search out an online site that might be streaming the game non-stop, such is the greatness of this game. Yes, Minnesota is the place to be in sports this season. And to the fans who were blessed by the sporting Gods to have tickets to both these Metrodome events: Consider yourselves the luckiest fans on the face of the earth today.

Final Score
Twins 6
Tigers 5