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Article: No packing it in for Vikings Culpepper, Vikings alive and well in Green Bay.(Sports)

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January 10, 2005
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Byline: Kent McDill Daily Herald Sports Writer

GREEN BAY, Wis. - Given up for dead emotionally and psychologically, the Minnesota Vikings somehow roared to life Sunday against the Green Bay Packers.

Few NFL teams ever entered the playoffs in as sorry a manner as did the Vikings.

En route to an 8-8 record, the Vikings lost seven of their final 10 regular-season games and four of their last five.

The Vikings virtually begged to be excluded from the playoffs, but they were able to back in to a berth because the NFC was so weak this season.

Then Sunday, they scored three times in the first nine minutes, taking a 17-0 lead that ...

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