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So head on over to Oakley.com for more information today. Oh, Hello welcome to another episode of Purple Insider Matthew Pollard here and Judd Zulgad is joining me because I am

launching a new little bit we're going to do here on the show because it is June and

there isn't much breaking news outside of delusional Packers fans thinking that their

players are going to be better than Justin Jefferson online so we don't deal in delusions here but we do deal in Vikings history.

So each week we're gonna look at a random old game of the week, and it truly is random.

I just started asking people, hey, give me a game that Vikings fans might not remember, but was actually awesome. And our friend Sam Ekstrom said, you got to go back and look at that 09 game between the Vikings and Baltimore Ravens and of course

Judd you were covering this game so we're going to talk all about this and

maybe make some comparisons to modern day go through some of the things that we

would have remembered from this game but then also things that we didn't because both of us watch this back and we'll have a fun time and I think this is better than going through classic games that everyone remembers because watching this back.

This was an amazing game and also kind of this is a mid-October game in 2009, but a turning point to be able to say like wow this Vikings team is not only six and oh after beating Baltimore

spoiler we're gonna cover wins but also the offense taking this huge explosion with Brett Farve and he's throwing rockets and fastballs everywhere and it feels like it was kind of one of those, hey, the Vikings are really for real with this offense.

So a really fun game, Judd, to go back and watch.

And so just to set this up to, what this was was 2009.

Ferve of course joins that you know he's not going to join the team, he's not going to join the team,

joins the team shockingly after the Mancato portion training camp.

And the first two games the Vikings shockingly after the Mancato portion training camp.

And the first two games, the Vikings won

against Cleveland at Cleveland and at Detroit.

And those two games were like,

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