Your Absolutely Mandatory London NFL Game Open Thread

In “The NFL Drops the Ball: Part Infinity” they didn’t make the Vikings the temporary home team. Has the league never picked up a history book? Jeebuz!

To The Game!

Vikings/Saints:

-Contrary to that Bugs Bunny opera documentary you watched, the Vikings never wore horns on their helmets. That was done by English writers in order to (literally) demonize those merry bands of rapists and pillagers. The truth of the matter is that they wore butterfly wings on their helmets.

-According to the written record, Vikings began ‘visiting’ Britain back in 793. It may have occurred before that time-something written by Ealdwulf The Super Scribbler indicating an earlier time may have gone up in flames in some monastery burned down by those very same visitors. Irony!

-As far as the Saints are concerned, keep an eye out for Cuthbert. He’s a triple threat in that he can play the monk, bishop or hermit positions.

-Due to injury the Vikes are playing Ragnar Lodbrok at tight end-he’s got soft hands and a mighty broadsword that can lop the head off a cb quite easily.

-The Saints are 3 1/2 point dogs. Will they pull off the upset like Alfred The Great of Wessex did, defeating The Great Heathen Army at The Battle of Edington in 878?

-Vikings defensive front line featuring Ivar the Boneless and his brothers Ubba, Bjorn Ironside, Hvitserk and Sigurd Snake-In-The-Eye is plenty intimidating and if forced to, will give Andy Dalton the old Blood Eagle if he doesn’t renounce his Christian beliefs before the end of the third quarter.

-Grizzled Saint Luna of Thorney, a linebacker/hermit out of Northumbrian State is said to be a relic but I’m thinking there’s still some mead left in the tank.

-This could come down to the kicking game and though some call him a bishopric behind his cloak, Waltheof of Melrose is a placekicker par excellence. He’ll be sporting the latest in foot fashion, the vaunted “Crakow shoe”-some say the 2 1/2 foot upturned poulaine is a bit much but I’ll bet you three months worth of tithes that he gets the job done.

Watch with me, will you?