It's back. It's really back! Real, live, 11-on-11, full-pads, against-another-team Minnesota Vikings football. And the Vikings won! Sure, the points mattered about as much as Whose Line Is It Anyway?, but meaningless victory still trumps meaningless defeat every time. For the first time in over seven months, we finally got our Vikings football fix.
And to be honest, we could tell it had been a while. The 2015 Hall of Fame Game between the Vikings and Pittsburgh Steelers was low-scoring, sloppy, and pretty boring overall. The sidelines in Canton were full of current and former NFL greats, but out on the field it was largely players that won't be on a roster in a month's time.