The Game - 1

Tomorrow night is the first game of the season. It's on ESPN because they thought Brett Favre's number was going to be retired, but there is some compelling drama anyway. This article in the Wisconsin State Journal is a good synopsis of why the ante has been upped in the Packers-Vikings rivalry.

Personally, I think the Vikings were less than clean in the whole Favre saga. Did they tamper with Favre? Probably not...but, they had to know it would distract the Packers. I believe that Darrell Bevell and Favre definitely had a circle jerk over the phone over the possibility of being reunited under the Jiffy Pop Dome. Also, Ziggy Piggy (as Vikings owner Zygi Wilf is known around here) was very upset about the supposed bounty placed on Adrian Peterson's head by the Packers secondary. All this leads to tomorrow night's opener at Lambeau Field.

So, how will the game go? I don't know for sure. The Vikings unfortunately are better than last year, but it's not as though the Packers are suddenly bad. I think it will probably be a low-scoring game, being that these are two of the better defenses in the game. I think the Packers have an advantage in that they are less one-dimensional than the Vikings are on offense (at least until Tavaris Jackson proves otherwise). So, with a friendly crowd, I think the Packers win 20-17.