Vikings vs. Lions, Week 1: Adrian Peterson’s 3 touchdowns not enough for Minnesota

Fantasy studs and duds

Reggie Bush was a fantasy stud on Sunday. He needed just four catches to amass 101 yards receiving and a touchdown, plus he added another 90 yards on the ground.

Peterson said he wants to get 2,500 rushing yards this season. That’s probably not going to happen, but there’s no doubt the Vikings will continue to use him as their offensive centerpiece. If Christian Ponder performs as poorly as he did on Sunday, they’ll probably have no choice. Purple Jesus should make fantasy owners happy once again this season.

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We already witnessed Joique Bell’s hip-hop hooray celebration But now it’s official: there is no team better at celebrating touchdowns.

Joseph Fauria, an undrafted rookie tight end and yes, the nephew of Christian, got his first TD in his NFL debut, and wanted everybody to know how thrilled he was by doing... well, I’ll let Fauria take it away.

Joique Bell might be the NFL’s premier touchdown vulture -- he has 13 yards and two touchdowns, which I’d say is pretty naughty. But vultures dont’ want to be vultures -- it’s just their nature.

I’m trying to say that Joique Bell is naughty by nature, which explains why he celebrated his second score by jumping up into the crowd and dancing this way:

The Lions went with Joique Bell diving over the offensive line on their goal line play against the Vikings, and... well, something either really good for one team or really good for the other team happened:

The Vikings picked the loose up and started to run with it while the referees couldn’t figure out what was going on. The referee literally giggled before going into the booth, but eventually decided this was a TD.

This is what it looked like:

The low hit caused Sullivan to hold his knee on the ground for several minutes and reversed a defensive touchdown for the Lions. On the replay, it was clear that Levy did not need the block by Suh. The low block wiped off the touchdown and likely will result in a fine for Suh.

Via Drew Magary, C.J. Mosley went to his barber and either said “yeah ... gimme the EKG” or “yeah ... gimme the polygraph”:

Watch him go!

Six running backs have topped the 2,000-yard mark. None of them were able to do it two seasons in a row. Barry Sanders came the closest with a 1,491 rushing yards in 1998, his final season in the NFL. Peterson was the seveth running back to reach that milestone, and he’s made it clear that he plans to break Eric Dickerson’s 2,105-yard record this season.

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