Chiefs Take on the Vikings Tonight

by Chris Thorman on Aug 21, 2009 7:05 AM CDT in 2009 Kansas City Chiefs Training Camp

Game time: 7 PM Central

Where: Some dome in Minneapolis

T.V.: It's on KCTV in Kansas City and I doubt it's broadcast many other places. I seem to recall last year heading to a bar to watch the first preseason game and they said DirectTV's Sunday Ticket didn't carry all of the preseason games. I'm not sure if that's true or not though.

Radio: 101 The Fox

I have to admit I'm not a big fan of the Friday night Kansas City Chiefs games, or NFL games for that matter. I always enjoyed filling up my final weekend day with football, not the last day of the work week.

This morning, to get you primed, I've got a few tidbits of info from the media guide released for this week's game. You can follow Vikings news over at the Daily Norseman.

Chiefs/Vikings Connections

QB TYLER THIGPEN was a seventh-round pick of the
Vikings in 2007.
Chiefs defensive assistant RONNIE BRADFORD (2002) and strength and
conditioning coach CEDRIC SMITH (’90) each played with Minnesota.
Minnesota DE JARED ALLEN (2004-07) and CB BENNY SAPP (2004-
07) each played for Kansas City. Allen entered the NFL as a fourth-round
pick of the Chiefs in 2002.
Minnesota TEs coach JIMMIE JOHNSON (’94) and WRs coach George
Stewart (’81) both played for Kansas City.
Minnesota scouts FRANK ACEVEDO and TERRANCE GRAY both
worked with Kansas City as did Director of Player Development/Legal
LES PICO and asst. to the head coach MARY REDMOND.
Vikings player personnel consultant PAUL WIGGIN is a former Chiefs
head coach (’75-77).
Vikings LB BEN LEBER is a product of Kansas State.
Minnesota asst. OL coact JIM HUEBER coached at Dodge City CC (’75-
78) and Wichita State (’79-80).

The Series

The Chiefs-Vikings preseason series is deadlocked at 7-7-0. Minnesota won the last preseason outing between the two squads by a 27-16 count at the Metrodome (8/12/05). KC’s last preseason win vs. the Vikings was a 26-16 victory at Arrowhead (8/16/03). Five different stadiums have hosted Chiefs-Vikings preseason contests, including the Liberty Bowl in Memphis, Tennessee where Marty Schottenheimer made his KC debut.

2008 Stats

Use this morning thread to get you started today.

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Will the Chiefs beat the Vikings tonight?

Yes

289 votes

No

253 votes

Not sure

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Well no wonder the Vikings are so bad

They have all of our old throwaway personnel ;)

Herm Edwards: "There's FOUR quarters in football?!"

by IISaiNtII on Aug 21, 2009 7:23 AM CDT reply actions

Just spotted a Tamarick Vanover jersey on one of our janitors!

Aint got a beach and I see no mountains, landlocked loungin' in the City of Fountains.

by HIV 2 Elway on Aug 21, 2009 7:54 AM CDT reply actions

I have NFL Sunday ticket to see the chiefs games in New Orleans. The ticket doesn’t show preseason games, however you can catch them on NFL network. They play all the games. Only problem is the chiefs games are “replayed”. NFL networks shows the game at 10 tonight.

by ChiefinSaintsland on Aug 21, 2009 8:02 AM CDT via mobile reply actions

They can have Jared Allen...

We still have Super Bowl IV…(and Albert)

Advantage: Chiefs

by chicks_love_chiefs on Aug 21, 2009 8:21 AM CDT reply actions

Anyone else hoping

Pollard does to Favre what he did to Brady???

I'd rather be a free man in my grave than living as a puppet or a slave

by ArrowDread on Aug 21, 2009 8:39 AM CDT reply actions

The fuck have you been all summer?

Aint got a beach and I see no mountains, landlocked loungin' in the City of Fountains.

by HIV 2 Elway on Aug 21, 2009 8:41 AM CDT up reply actions

Living off the grid

I'd rather be a free man in my grave than living as a puppet or a slave

by ArrowDread on Aug 21, 2009 8:46 AM CDT up reply actions

Vikings

They wear purple and play in a dome?! I dislike them nearly as much as I dislike the Twins…

I'd rather be a free man in my grave than living as a puppet or a slave

by ArrowDread on Aug 21, 2009 8:42 AM CDT reply actions

directv

Does not carry any preason games on NFL Sunday Ticket. The only games they have are the ones broadcast on nationa broadcasts or NFLN.

So I will have to watch the KC game at 11am Eastern when they replay it on NFLN :(

"I will fight you!"
"What is your weapon?"
"My bare hands!"
"That is stupid. I will use a sword and I will cut off your bare hands."

by CT Chief Fan on Aug 21, 2009 9:16 AM CDT reply actions

i meant

11pm tonight….

"I will fight you!"
"What is your weapon?"
"My bare hands!"
"That is stupid. I will use a sword and I will cut off your bare hands."

by CT Chief Fan on Aug 21, 2009 9:17 AM CDT up reply actions

I feel ya

I live in Jeff City (smack in the middle of MO) where Chiefs games are broadcast locally. I have Sunday Ticket so I can see all the games and also for the off-chance that the Chiefs have a game on Fox and they decide to put on the Rams (really?) game instead.

Sunday Ticket is ridiculously expensive and they don’t show the preaseason games! To top it off, the game is on some obscure local channel that I don’t get through DirecTV so I have to go to my buddy’s place, who has regular cable. Ah well.

TOUCHDOWN! KAN-SAH-CITY!!!

by TheScootness on Aug 21, 2009 1:43 PM CDT up reply actions

I sure do miss

that sack maniac Jarred Allen. “Sigh” O well..

by Bearson on Aug 21, 2009 9:22 AM CDT reply actions

I bet you also miss his numerous DUI’s. For people who get on LJ for shoving beligerant drunk women who try to start things in public with him, I still contend Allen was more dangerous to the people of Kansas City….but he drove a car with horns on the front, and he had a mullet! That makes him pretty swell in my book!

by jk86 on Aug 21, 2009 10:45 AM CDT up reply actions

I am nervous about tonights game.

Peyton Manning vs the Vikings. 6 dropbacks, 1-3, with 3 sacks.
The Vikes are going to be JACKED UP tonight, our boys better be ready to play or someone is going to get his head knocked off.

And so, Craig finds himself leaping from blog to blog, striving to put right what once went wrong, and hoping each time that his next leap, will be the leap home.

by craig in calgary on Aug 21, 2009 10:07 AM CDT reply actions

Someone= Brett Favre

by Chiefsfan1970 on Aug 21, 2009 10:23 AM CDT up reply actions

Brett Favre is so awesome, if he got his head knocked off, he would grow another one.

With even MORE Stubble!

And so, Craig finds himself leaping from blog to blog, striving to put right what once went wrong, and hoping each time that his next leap, will be the leap home.

by craig in calgary on Aug 21, 2009 10:25 AM CDT up reply actions

LOL

by Chiefsfan1970 on Aug 21, 2009 10:56 AM CDT up reply actions

My hope is

that after pushing us around for a series or two, they’ll take Williamson and some of their other big names out and our first stringers will then have a chance to breath a little. If guys like Allen and Williamson play the whole first half, YIKES!

Ten sacks in a season! For crying out loud that's what I used to average per game using DT in Tecmo Bowl!

by KCporkchop on Aug 21, 2009 2:01 PM CDT up reply actions