For the next couple of days the American sports scene will have a new capital, Minneapolis, Minnesota. It all starts tonight when the Green Bay Packers take on the Minnesota Vikings on Monday Night Football. Unless you have been completely sports deprived the last couple of months you know that it will be the first time Brett Favre takes the field in Viking's purple against the team he spent most of his career with and division rival, the Packers. Now granted the bigger Vikings and Packers match up happens on Sunday, November 1 when the game is played in Green Bay and the Packers fans will have to decide whether to boo or cheer their former hero. The thing is this Monday Night Football game has no other competition in the sports world. The baseball season is over and though I like hockey let's be real no one really watches it. The boys and girls at ESPN must be drooling thinking of what kind of ratings number this game will get tonight, I'm thinking it could be a record. After tonight's game the crew at the Metrodome will have to work quickly to clean up the place and get ready for tomorrow's Detroit Tigers and Minnesota Twins baseball game. This game will determine who has the honor of meeting the Yankees in the ALDS on Wednesday. The Twins have been a great story coming out of nowhere to catch the Tigers. While the Tigers have stumbled and bumbled their way to a tie. The Tigers will send rookie Rick Porcello to the mound while the Twins counter with Scott Baker. Both managers won't be afraid to use their bullpens because it's win or go home. I love when divisions go down to a one game playoff it reminds me of when I was seven and the great Yankees and Red Sox playoff of 1978, I love Bucky Dent. So enjoy the spotlight Minnesota the whole sports world will be watching.
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I reaaly don't care about Favre, but I need at least seven points from the Packers D tonite. As for the Twins, I called this back at the end of August. One of the other guys in my baseball league was debating that the Twins weren't contenders. After looking at the schedules, with a few good games and a few well placed losses from the Tigers they could be in a dead heat for first place. The wild card to it all was the White Sox. They could've been in the hunt also, but they just seemed to give up. Its to bad they have a lot of good young talent there. For what its worth I'd like to see the Twins take it. Its a good comeback story. However, I think it will go to the Tigers, and just as well, I think they match up better with the Yankees.
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