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• The “AI Baby” Trend Has Reached the Minnesota Vikings

Whether we like it or not If you’ve spent any time on social media over the past couple of weeks, you’ve no doubt seen a significant number of “AI Baby” videos on various platforms. For those of you who have not, what these videos do is use AI to generate baby avatars. . .I guess, for lack of a better term. . .who then give speeches or other performances with the adult audio behind them. If you’re...2025
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• Vikings Links: No Playoff Seeding Changes

Photo by Brace Hemmelgarn/Getty Images The old heads prevailed! The NFL owners concluded their meetings and the traditionalists won the playoff seeding proposal. It was voted down. Not that big a deal since really bad divisions does not happen too often right? Hard to get owners to give up a home playoff game and the revenue that comes from that game. 8 Takeaways from NFL Owners Meeting: P...2025
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• Trail Blazers are up for sale and Phil Knight is not interested this time
An earthquake hit Portland last week, as Paul Allen’s estate announced that they have begun the process of selling the Trail Blazers organization. According to a state released by the team, the sale is “consistent with Allen’s directive to eventually sell his sports holdings and direct all estate proceeds to philanthropy.” Besides the Blazers club, […] The post Trail Blazer...2025
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• Pre-Snap Reads 5/15: The 2025 Seahawks schedule has been released

Photo by Michael Zagaris/San Francisco 49ers/Getty Images What games peak your interest? In Today’s Links: pretty much, just news about the schedule, our Seattle Seahawks’ schedule, our division rivals’ schedule, et al. What games will you travel to? How are you feeling about our chances this upcoming season? Will we take the division? Let us know in the comments below! #np Something’...2025
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• Phil Knight Won't Attempt To Purchase Blazers

Phil Knight is not interested in purchasing the Portland Trail Blazers as the franchise enters the open market. The Nike co-founder previously expressed interest in buying the Blazers following the death of Paul Allen in 2018. Jody Allen rebuffed Knight's offer to buy the Blazers for more than $2 billion in 2022. "Five years ago, when I was a younger man, I had a great interest in being a part of ...2025
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• Portland Trail Blazers will be sold by Paul Allen's estate, team says
Paul Allen's estate took control of the Trail Blazers in 2018 when the billionaire died, and there has been speculation about ownership plans ever since....2025
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• Vikings Links: Minicamp Is Underway!

Photo by John Byrum/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The offseason practices are on! Minicamp is going and I do not know if there any televised portions but there are ways to see some of it ... To watch the Minnesota Vikings’ 2025 rookie minicamp, you can follow the team’s social media channels and watch highlights on their website and YouTube channel. The Vikings will also share content f...2025
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• Vikings Links: Free Agency Day 11 Open Thread

Photo by Michael Hickey/Getty Images We are still waiting on the backup QB spot to be filled The signings continue to trickle in and the pickup of Rondale Moore was a nice addition to the wide receiver group. Moore turns 25 on June 9th and still has a lot of upside IMO. He is averaging 45 catches a year for 400 yards and 1 TD in his short career. He has been banged up and did not play last...2025
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• Vikings Links: Whose Your QB For 2025?

Photo by Adam Bettcher/Getty Images JJ McCarthy or Bust! It appears that the consensus is that JJ McCarthy should be given the QB job without any competition. If alternate idea is suggested for discussion sake, the defenders arrive in full force and will label/slander the person making the idea. Comical. I do plans every offseason and I try to do different versions for possible discussio...2025
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• Vikings Links: It’s Going To Be An Interesting Offseason

Photo by Brace Hemmelgarn/Getty Images The team has tons of options and flexibility! Still decompressing after that playoff loss against the Rams. The non-competitive nature of the game is what really depresses the most. For these dudes to not even show up for a playoff game is embarrassing. While Sam Darnold deserves plenty of blame, the offensive line really chose a great time to get th...2025
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• Vikings Links: It Has Been A Great Season!

Photo by Perry Knotts/Getty Images Let’s hope it continues with a beat down of the Packers We all are hoping that the team continues to play well, stack wins, and beat the stinkin Packers! But much of the conversation is about what the team will do with starting QB Sam Darnold this offseason. Nothing wrong with that if you can multitask. I think the team should hang onto him for a couple o...2024
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• Minnesota Vikings News and Links: Prayers For Randy Moss!

Photo by Adam Bettcher/Getty Images One of the two greatest to ever play the game has our love! As we look to the Bears game, the thoughts are that the Vikings should handle their business. The Randy Moss news is sad to hear but it is encouraging to know he is on the mend and battling. All the prayers for Randy Moss! Minnesota Vikings News and Links Red Pen Meetings Helping Kevin O’Connell...2024
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• Vikings Links: Can The Vikings Win This Week?

Photo by Stephen Maturen/Getty Images They should be able to right the longship! While I believe most Vikings fans are confident that the team will win this week, there still should be some concern. If the defense is unable to bring any pressure on Joe Flacco similar to how they were unable to pressure Matthew Stafford, Flacco is capable of carving up the mediocre secondary. I would not be...2024
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• Vikings Links: Are you Picking The Vikings To Win?

Photo by Stacy Revere/Getty Images The Vikings are not being picked by many Not too many folks are picking the Vikings this week. I suppose it is because of the difference in QB play? Is it because the Lions have a really strong offensive line and could possibly run the ball on the Vikings and eat up the clock? I cannot say that the game doesn’t make me nervous but I still can’t pick again...2024
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• Sam Darnold to Start Preseason Opener, “Majority” of Healthy Players to Play

Photo by David Berding/Getty Images A bit of a different approach The Minnesota Vikings will be taking a slightly different approach to their preseason opener than they have over the last couple of seasons when it comes to which players take the field and which ones don’t. Head coach Kevin O’Connell has said that Sam Darnold, the presumptive starting quarterback for the Vikings, will start...2024
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• Pete Carroll: One of One

Photo by Chris Unger/Getty Images The greatest tenure in Seattle sports history ended today. An homage to the legendary Pete Carroll, and the incredible impact he leaves behind. And just like that, he was gone. — After the 2009 NFL season, the Seahawks found themselves stuck axel-deep in sludge, helplessly spinning treadless tires with little hope and zero vibes. They were five years remo...2024
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"Photo by Soobum Im/Getty Images The decision is part of Paul Allen’s directive to sell his sports holdings, but the Seahawks won’t be sold just yet."

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"With an aging roster and virtually no star-power, then-owner Paul Allen stunned everybody by firing head coach Jim Mora Jr after one season and hiring the hottest college coach in the country to pull his franchise out of the mud."

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"Jody Allen is managing the estate of her late brother Paul Allen, including the Blazers and the Seattle Seahawks."

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"Earlier this week, the play-by-play voice of the Vikings, Paul Allen, offered some insight as to an October incident that resulted in coach and quarterback pushing and shoving each other during [more]"

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"As Paul Allen of KFAN said during my weekly spot with him on Wednesday morning, and as Chris [more]"

2020
"“Listen, I played with Stefon, You get him to the side, he is a great dude, locked in, but he needs the attention,” Greenway told KFAN’s Paul Allen."

2019
"He sold the Trail Blazers to the late Paul Allen for $70 million in 1988."

2018
"Trail Blazers star point guard Damian Lillard met with owner Paul Allen for one hour last week to discuss the team's direction moving forward, sources told ESPN."

2017
"Kshama Sawant, a socialist, wrote to coach Pete Carroll and team owner Paul Allen, asking them to add Kap as Russell Wilson's backup."

2016
" Danny Leroux of Real GM offered the financial implications: Good on owner Paul Allen for being willing to spend the money."

2015
"" Bill Wixey of Q13 Fox in Seattle thinks Seahawks owner Paul Allen should call Wilson's bluff should he seriously want to have a football and a baseball career: Wilson's work on the gridiron is well documented."

2014
"Billionaire Paul Allen, who owns the Seattle Seahawks and the Portland Trail Blazers, has pledged to contribute at least $100 million to the fight against the deadly Ebola virus."

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• Pre-Snap Reads 5/15: The 2025 Seahawks schedule has been released
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• Phil Knight Won't Attempt To Purchase Blazers
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• Paul Allen’s estate puts Trail Blazers, but not Seahawks, up for sale

Photo by Soobum Im/Getty Images The decision is part of Paul Allen’s directive to sell his sports holdings, but the Seahawks won’t be sold just yet. Eight years removed from the passing of Paul Allen, his estate has formally put one of his sports teams up for sale. On Tuesday, the National Basketball Association’s Portland Trail Blazers announced that a formal sales process has commenced, ...2025
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• Ranking the Heartbreaks

Photo by Brian Peterson/Star Tribune via Getty Images To Err is Human. Ask a Vikings Fan. We’ve officially entered the (relatively) quiet portion of the offseason. Minicamps and OTAs will soon be here, but not yet. Same with the NFL schedule release. Chris, Mark, Warren, et al. have done the usual excellent job of covering where we stand. So, in the meantime, let’s have some fun with this ...2025
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• 25 years ago today: The Kingdome, the Seahawks’ original home, is imploded

Getty Images The Seahawks played their first 24 seasons at the Kingdome from 1976-1999 before eventually moving to Lumen Field in 2002. Today (March 26) marks the 25th anniversary of the demolition of one of the most iconic buildings in Seattle sports history: the Kingdome. 25 years ago today, the Kingdome was imploded. pic.twitter.com/knrPxrwuzi— Seattle Seahawks (@Seahawks) March 26, 2...2025
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• Vikings Links: Free Agency Day 11 Open Thread
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• Vikings Links: It’s Almost Over!

Photo by Stephen Maturen/Getty Images The QB Carousel is going to stop spinning soon The QB carousel is turning and now the media jackals are all predicting/assuming Sam Darnold is going to sign with the Seahawks after they trade Geno Smith to the Raiders for a 3rd round pick. The connection makes a ton of sense because Seahawks OC Klint Kubiak worked with Darnold in 2023 as San Francisco’...2025
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• Minnesota Vikings News and Links: Prayers For Randy Moss!
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• Why the 2005 Seahawks season was so much more than a Super Bowl run

Photo by Kirby Lee/NFLPhotoLibrary The 2005 Seahawks didn’t win the Super Bowl, but they ignited an otherwise apathetic fanbase. Do you know the significance of this photo? It’s from the Seattle Seahawks’ 2003 home opener against the New Orleans Saints. Seattle easily won 27-10, the weather was fine, and it marked the start of the first 8-0 home record in team history. And ...2024
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• Tim Walz was a football coach before being Kamala Harris’ VP pick

Tim Walz’s football coach background, explained, after being named Kamala Harris’ VP pick Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, the current vice president, has announced Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate following weeks of speculation. In recent days Walz was among many potential selections, along with Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro and Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear. Bu...2024
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• Huzzah, football! Seahawks training camp is only a week away

Photo by Jane Gershovich/Getty Images Seattle Seahawks football is almost back. A lot has happened to the Seattle Seahawks since we last won a Super Bowl. In fact, we’re nearly unrecognizable. Not only is Russell Wilson gone, but so is Pete Carroll. Marshawn has retired – so has Richard Sherman, Kam Chancellor, KJ Wright, and Jermaine Kearse. And, I think, Earl Thomas? Bobby Wagner is sti...2024
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• Russell Wilson Speaks on Potentially Playing Both Football and Baseball
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• Is Damian Lillard Ready to Be Portland Trail Blazers' Franchise Centerpiece?
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• Billionaire Allen donates $100M to fight Ebola
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• Michael Bennett Yells 'Pay Him!' During Kam Chancellor's Postgame Interview
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• Seahawks Owner Paul Allen Contributing $100M in Fight Against Ebola Virus
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• Sources: Lillard, Allen met over Blazers' future
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• Steve Ballmer: Just Your Average, Everyday Billionaire Who Saved the Clippers
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• Seahawks, Blazers owner claims he found long-lost sunken WWII battleship
Paul Allen, owner of Seattle Seahawks, Portland Trail Blazers & Seattle Sounders, claims he and his research team have found the Musashi, a massive Japanese World War II battleship, off the Philippines near where it sank more than 70 years ago....2015
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• Kyle Rudolph, MyCole Pruitt's Instant Fantasy Advice After Hall of Fame Game
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• Steve Ballmer: Just Your Average, Everyday Billionaire Who Saved the Clippers
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• Vikings Links: No Playoff Seeding Changes
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• Paul Allen’s estate puts Trail Blazers, but not Seahawks, up for sale
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• 25 years ago today: The Kingdome, the Seahawks’ original home, is imploded
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• Portland Trail Blazers will be sold by Paul Allen's estate, team says
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• Minnesota Vikings News and Links: This Isn’t the Super Bowl, Man, This is Detroit

Photo by Stephen Maturen/Getty Images Heading into the weekend Good morning, folks! I get to cover the Open Thread for Brandon this morning, so let’s see what we’ve got for news stories around the ol’ interwebs about our Minnesota Vikings, shall we? Vikings Radio Announcer Paul Allen Says He Almost Quit After 2021 Season “I’m telling you right now, at the end of the 2021 Minnesota Vikings...2024
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• Rumors, speculation abound (again) that Jeff Bezos could buy the Seahawks

Photo by Cooper Neill/Getty Images His recent liquidation of Amazon stock suggests something may be happening behind the scenes. After offloading Amazon stock twice over the last year, once for $8.5 billion and more recently for $5 billion, freeing up approximately $13.5 billion in cash, Jeff Bezos seemingly has his sights set on a rather sizable purchase. Many assumed that he would be in ...2024
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• Minnesota Vikings News and Links, 19 March 2024

Photo by Rich von Biberstein/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit” - Aristotle Every year there is a draft prospect that shoots up the draft board and sometimes becomes the darling of the media draftniks. Will Levis and Malik Willis rose up the boards for some reason and many folks claimed they would not last til the ...2024
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