Jan 2nd 2009 11:00PM by Bruce Ciskie (author feed)
Filed under: Eagles, Vikings, NFC East, NFC North, NFL Fans.

The Minnesota Vikings front office has been sweating bullets all week. They are trying like crazy to sell the remaining tickets for Sunday’s NFC Wild Card game against the Philadelphia Eagles.

At the start of the week, there were some 20,000 tickets left. By Wednesday, they were down to 11,000. The NFL’s blackout deadline of Thursday was extended, and the Vikings were down to 3,100 or so tickets by Friday.

They have until 3:30pm Central time Saturday to sell what’s left. If they do it, they’ll have accomplished it without leaning on a corporate buyout of the remaining seats. Here’s Vikings vice president of sales Steve Lacroix:
Knowing that they’re in a bit of a pickle, the Vikings called on resident loudmouth and cheapshot artist Jared Allen to, well, beg for help.Continue Reading