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Speaker 1: Welcome into the Minnesota Vikings Podcast.

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Speaker 2: I am your host Ttum Everett from the Vikings Entertainment Network,

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Speaker 2: and wow, I really hope you didn't turn your TVs

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Speaker 2: off after that third quarter on Monday Night Football, because

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Speaker 2: the Vikings scored twenty one unanswered points in the fourth

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Speaker 2: to clinch the season opening win twenty seven to twenty

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Speaker 1: Not only a win, but a divisional win.

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Speaker 2: It was a roller coaster of emotions which we will

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Speaker 2: get into with our guests this week, kfans Eric Nordquist

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Speaker 2: from nine to noon. After Monday's win, the Vikings are

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Speaker 2: ten to one in one possession games since the start

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Speaker 2: of the twenty twenty four season, and our rating NFL

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Speaker 2: Coach of the Year Vikings head coach Kevin O'Connell twenty

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Speaker 2: seven and nine in one possession games in Minnesota. Now,

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Speaker 2: that second half effort was led by Vikings quarterback JJ McCarthy,

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Speaker 2: who was six of eight for eighty seven yards and

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Speaker 2: two two touchdowns with a passer rating of one hundred

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Speaker 2: and forty nine and a half. Plus he ran for

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Speaker 2: another fourteen yards and a touchdown in.

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Speaker 1: The fourth quarter alone. That is incredible.

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Speaker 2: Listen to these amazing feats McCarthy achieved in his regular

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Speaker 2: season debut. First Vikings quarterback in franchise history to start

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Speaker 2: in a season opener in his NFL debut, first starting

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Speaker 2: quarterback with a ten plus point fourth quarter comeback in

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Speaker 2: his NFL debut since Steve Young in nineteen eighty five.

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Speaker 2: McCarthy is now the only QB to do that on

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Speaker 2: the road since nineteen fifty And he became the first

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Speaker 2: player to record at least two passing touchdowns and one

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Speaker 2: twenty eleven. And because of all that, McCarthy was named

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Speaker 2: the NFC Offensive.

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Speaker 1: Player of the Week.

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Speaker 2: Let's hear from the award winner, who spoke to the

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Speaker 2: media on Wednesday.

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Speaker 3: A little surprised, but you know, at the end of

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Speaker 3: the day, Monday Night football, it's a tremendous win we got.

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Speaker 3: But that's a team award. I don't look at that

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Speaker 3: as an individual award at all. You know, defense kept

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Speaker 3: us senate the whole game and found a way to

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Speaker 3: bounce back offensively. So yeah, it's great and all, but

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Speaker 3: you know, it's on to the next one now.

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Speaker 2: It feels like a good time to bring in nineth

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Speaker 2: Noon's Mad producer Eric nordquis Nord?

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Speaker 1: Oh where else would you rather be? Right now?

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Speaker 4: How about that?

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Speaker 5: How about the kid feeling the moment and realizing that

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Speaker 5: he and maybe it was because he played a part

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Speaker 5: in some of the frustrations that were taking place early

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Speaker 5: led them to victory with an unbelievable fourth quarter performance. Now, Tatum,

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Speaker 5: I don't know when when you have me join and

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Speaker 5: we chat this out, I don't know how much of

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Speaker 5: a rube, how much of a fan versus do you

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Speaker 5: want like my actual opinions on things, because I can't

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Speaker 5: tell you how excited, how elated, how rubelike I felt

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Speaker 5: driving home after doing fan line on Monday night early

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that it wasn't for much as me just trying

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Speaker 4: to analyze the game as much as it was. We

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Speaker 4: did it, okay, gave me said your field all of that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, So you want to know what do we

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Speaker 2: want from you? I think at this point this is

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Speaker 2: a really good chance a You're on in the evening

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Speaker 2: time here on Kfan, and there are people listening to

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Speaker 2: it who may not listen to nine to noon.

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Speaker 1: How you know, is there anything that you.

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Speaker 2: Have said on nine soon or that you haven't said

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Speaker 2: because you're putting on a different hat that you you know,

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Speaker 4: Well, it's it's it's two different things for me.

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Speaker 5: One side, forty year old lifetime Vikings fan reaching my

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Speaker 5: and man Cato slapping hands with the Randy Mosses and

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Speaker 5: the Chris Dolman types in the mid nineties. And then

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Speaker 5: there's the other side of me that goes, Okay, what

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Speaker 5: what Kevin O'Connell has been building towards with this lump

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Speaker 5: I got to be honest I can't because I'm employed

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Speaker 4: I'm going home.

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Speaker 5: Well, we'll try to pick this up on Tuesday. I'm

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Speaker 5: already planning the sad montage that I would put together.

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Speaker 5: But then it changed Tatum. Then it changed three consecutive

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Speaker 5: I think he was he was like six of eight. Oh,

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Speaker 5: I've got that eighty some yards. Yeah, what were the stats?

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Speaker 5: Because it was brilliant performance.

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Speaker 2: If you've been listening to this show Minnesotaking's podcast earlier

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Speaker 5: We did okay, Yeah, he kind of took the team

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Speaker 5: on his back. Now, this is you know, Jordan Mason.

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Speaker 5: You know we're in the world. Now apparently we give

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Speaker 5: Mason flowers. You got to give, you got to give

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Speaker 5: several members of the defense, flowers, et cetera. But for

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Speaker 4: And again that light turning on and.

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Speaker 5: The evolution we watched really, you know, not within a season,

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Speaker 4: I'm just it's it's it's it's unbelievable to.

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Speaker 4: It's it's awesome. It is awesome with what we saw.

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Speaker 2: I try not to sound super hyperbolic about all this stuff,

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Speaker 2: everything that everyone described him as. He's a gamer. He's calm,

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Speaker 1: This is just the game of football. I mean, he

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Speaker 2: It is like been six just over six hundred days

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Speaker 2: just I love the patients the coaching staff had. Again,

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Speaker 2: Like I'm trying not to like drink the kool aid

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Speaker 1: And I think you know, you couldn't have asked.

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Speaker 2: For I mean you could ask for more obviously in

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Speaker 4: Yeah, my upper lip is purple. Don't worry. I've had

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Speaker 4: enough kool aid for the both of us. I am in.

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Speaker 4: I am absolutely in. Yeah, no big deal, So long

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Speaker 5: Few days removed from it, just really kind of celebrating

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Speaker 4: We want homegrown, we want cultivated. We had to wait,

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Speaker 5: Of the knee injury, and we got here, and as

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Speaker 5: we talked about it really last week, kind of the idea,

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Speaker 5: we've done all this projection.

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Speaker 4: Now we get to recap, and in.

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Speaker 5: This particular case, we get to recap one of the

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Speaker 5: we saw from a kid who had to battle made mistakes.

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Speaker 5: Light comes on and he flourished, and he went with

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Speaker 5: the end of that game.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, No, the heck of a moment.

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Speaker 2: I love seeing the emotion in the locker room afterwards

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Speaker 2: saying the where else would you rather be? Moment? And

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Speaker 2: because I mean, you know, you as an offense haven't

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Speaker 1: You know, Christian Darsol was not in it left tackle

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Speaker 2: Justin Jefferson had not played a snap of football since

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Speaker 5: Yeah, again, you know the new faces, that's really the key.

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Speaker 5: I Ben Johnson, all this prep work that he had done,

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Speaker 5: that that first drive, Caleb Williams six to six, like

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Speaker 4: I wonder what the new guys are going to look like.

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Speaker 4: They look good. So again you can you can hear it.

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Speaker 4: I'm in full room this week, don't just as you said.

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Speaker 5: I can turn it over and start to think earnestly

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Speaker 5: about week two, certainly, but still just feeling really good

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Speaker 5: in total with the effort that our guys produced in Chicago.

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Speaker 2: Yes, And of course they're playing without Harrison Smith right now,

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Speaker 2: When Blake Cashman goes down without the green dot on

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Speaker 2: it does help a little bit that, you know, eric'spin

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Speaker 2: with the Vikings previously, has some experience here, but it's

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Speaker 2: a different coaching staff for him.

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Speaker 1: And the way that he just was able to.

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Speaker 2: Grasp all the concepts and just fill in so seamlessly

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Speaker 2: was really impressive. And I just feel like we need

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Speaker 2: to put one more bow on this game before we

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Speaker 2: have to take a quick break. And I really want

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Speaker 2: to say welcome, Welcome to the school nation, Miles Price,

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Speaker 2: happy you're here?

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Speaker 4: Are you? Are you kidding me?

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Speaker 5: How aggressive and confident he looked on those punt returns.

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Speaker 5: At one point, You're thinking, I wonder if Silas Bolden's

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Speaker 2: Vikings podcast. I'm your host Tatum Everett from the Vikings

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Speaker 2: Entertainment Network. I'm alongside nine to noons Nordo. The Vikings

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Speaker 2: home opener is going to be absolutely insane. Sunday night

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Speaker 5: Well, Jon is potentially a problem, although I thought Flores

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Speaker 5: That's something I'm going to be looking forward to to

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Speaker 2: Watch as our new guys like a Javon Hargrave and

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Speaker 4: Well we'll see more of it on Sunday night.

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Speaker 4: The best spot for him to be and that matchup

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Speaker 1: I will be waiting all day for Sunday night.

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Speaker 2: I am super pumped that it's another primetime game, the

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Speaker 2: at us Bank Stadium and it's I can't wait for one.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Tonordo for being a part of

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Speaker 2: the show today. We will be waiting all day and

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Speaker 2: I guess all weekend for Sunday Night football when the

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Speaker 2: Vikings host the Falcons. Now that he will be wearing

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Speaker 2: their classics uniforms, which you know, it's that slick look

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Speaker 2: and seventies. However, that is not all that's in store

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Speaker 2: for what's going to be an epic first game back

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty five season. Jared Allen will be in the building.

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Speaker 2: He'll be recognized at halftime for his Pro Football Hall

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Speaker 2: lucky for you, there is going to be another surprise

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Speaker 2: at halftime when he comes into the building. Sunday will

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Speaker 2: also be the premiere of the new twenty twenty five

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Speaker 2: and the Vikings in US Bank are partnering with pix

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Speaker 2: So when you see that new showtime sequence or a

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Speaker 2: couple of other special moments throughout the game, there will

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Speaker 2: the music.

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Speaker 1: It will be incredible.

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Speaker 2: Be sure to get there early as the kickoff to

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Speaker 2: the Vikings Falcons game has country music star Russell Dickerson

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Speaker 2: live at the Commons in front of the stadium. That

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Speaker 2: performance begins at four thirty pm. It is going to

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Speaker 2: be a jam packed, crazy atmosphere as we are going

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Speaker 2: to open up the twenty twenty five season at US

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Speaker 2: Bank Stadium Sunday night.

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Speaker 1: Hope to see you there.

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