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Berry Tramel: Turnovers will tell the tale for Vikings, Cowboys

 
By Berry Tramel | Published: January 17, 2010    Comment on this article Leave a comment

You can say the same thing about the Minnesota Vikings now, smack in the middle of the NFL playoffs, that we all said about the Vikes back in August, when they signed Methuselah to be the quarterback.

photo - Adrian Peterson has had a problem holding onto the ball in his NFL career. Turnovers could loom large in today’s game. AP Photo
Adrian Peterson has had a problem holding onto the ball in his NFL career. Turnovers could loom large in today’s game. AP Photo

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Cowboys at Vikings
→When: Noon

→Where: Metrodome, Minneapolis

→TV: KOKH-25 (Cox 12)

Take care of the ball, and Minnesota’s headed to the Super Bowl.

True then. True now. But with a twist. It’s not the old guy the Vikings have to most worry about today against the Dallas Cowboys.

Captain Leatherhead himself, Brett Favre, became a legend despite treating the football with all the care of bird-feed bread. Toss it here, toss it there, toss it anywhere.

But with the Vikings, Favre protects the pigskin like it’s the Hope Diamond.

Meanwhile, young stallion Adrian Peterson, who began the season as good a pick as any for best player on the planet, has become Fumblefingers. Drops the ball like it’s lined with razor wire.

Thus the plot today at the Metrodome. If Peterson keeps fumbling, or Favre starts throwing interceptions again, Dallas wins. In fact, let’s put a number on it. At least two Minnesota turnovers, and the Cowboys will go to the NFC title game. One or fewer turnovers, and it’s the Vikings who stay on Super Bowl Boulevard.

Minnesota can move the ball. Peterson, when he hangs onto the ball, runs like Jim Brown. Favre, signed in hope that he would play like the old Brett Favre, instead has played like the new Peyton Manning. The best (only?) way to stop Minnesota is to take the ball away.

Which could be problematic for Dallas.

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