Those tickets, apparently, won’t sell themselves.

If you live in within 75 miles of the metro area and want to see the Vikings game on television this Sunday, you might be out of luck. The team still needs to sell more than 3,500 tickets or the game will be blacked-out to local audiences.

The Vikings haven’t had a game blacked-out since 1997. Why can't General Mills buy up all of those tickets the way they did back in the good old days? Some corporation needs to step up and do the right thing because driving to Minneapolis this weekend isn't an option for us here at Cold Omaha.

Please, please, please Mr. or Ms. Corporation muckity mucks: buy those tickets and give the fans the game they so richly deserve. Or, maybe the Vikings could find some offensive talent by Friday and then the fans will buy the tickets on their own. Either way, just get the game on TV.

Vikings welcome another guy you have never heard of before.

It's been a fantastic Labor Day Weekend for Minnesota sports teams. In fact, its been a pretty good run for us over the last couple of weeks. The Indians finally stepped on the Twins throats and ended their season. The Gopher football team lived up to the hype and lost to Bowling Green. And the Vikings are getting the roster finalized as they ramp up for their first game of the season next Sunday against the Falcons.

Another key addition to the Super Bowl run was added when the Vikings picked up Tight End Garrett Mills from New England. Don't know who he is? That's okay, we don't either. But, prior to the pre-season, we hadn't heard of Naufahu Tahi, Chase Johnson, or Jayme Mitchell -- and they all somehow made the final roster.

Let's trust Coach Quiet for at least the first half of the season. While he's obviously not a big X's and O's kind of coach, maybe he knows something about personnel?

Plus, he's started a wonderful trend of referring to himself as "Chill" during radio interviews. That kind of humor is hard to ignore. Maybe referring to himself in the third person will help. It can't hurt, right?

Fire Tim Brewster.

It’s jeezo beezo all over again -- and Gopher Nation mourns.

For those who thought Tim Brewster was the answer – I am here to tell you... he isn't. Unless the question is "who will be the first Minnesota coach fired in 2008?"

Sure, we here at Cold Omaha have been called some of the "dumbest blogger(s) in the history of the internet" but we think Brewster is terrible and he is in completely over his head.

I don't care if he can recruit. He can't coach. He can't motivate.

At some point some of these "4 Star" recruits are going to flip-flop and sign someplace else because even a 17-year-old kid is going to pick up the fact that Brewster is simply a rah-rah guy who shouldn't be running a Division 1 program.

Recruiting is a great skill and it can't be overlooked. But he is getting his team BLOWN-OUT on a consistent basis and his team never looks ready. Tell me how recruiting is going to make that better.

The folks at www.firebrewster.blogspot.com have it right.

He has to go.