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Brooking calls final Vikes' score 'classless'
January, 17, 2010
JAN 17
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By Matt Mosley
MINNEAPOLIS -- Tempers flared Sunday at the Metrodome after Minnesota’s final touchdown of a 34-3 playoff victory over Dallas. Cowboys linebacker Keith Brooking sprinted toward the Vikings’ sideline, taunting coach Brad Childress and later calling the late score “classless.”
Vikings nose tackle Pat Williams, meanwhile, said Brooking was lucky to escape the Minnesota sideline in one piece.
"We don’t care what Keith Brooking says,” Williams said. “He was about to get his *** whupped on our sideline over there. It don’t matter. Nobody said anything when they blew out the Eagles [the past two weeks]. It’s the playoffs. It ain’t no regular-season game. If you lose, you go home. We take no pity on them. Do they expect us to? I don’t care about no Brooking. He can say whatever he wants to say.”
To recap: Ahead 27-3 late in the fourth quarter, Childress left his starters in the game. The Cowboys gave up the ball on downs at their 37-yard line with 5:26 remaining, and the Vikings threw three passes on their ensuing six-play drive. The final one was an 11-yard touchdown pass to tight end Visanthe Shiancoe on fourth-and-3 with 1:55 remaining.
Cowboys coach Wade Phillips acknowledged that the Vikings ran up the score, but he didn't seem particularly bothered by it. But Brooking was about to take the last score in stride.
"I thought it was classless," he told me. "I thought it was B.S. Granted, we get paid to stop them, but we had zero timeouts left. I didn’t think there was any call for that."
Told of Brooking’s comments, Shiancoe laughed and said: “OK, we apologize. I’m sorry. Better?”
Feel free to weigh in both this post and over at SportsNation.
http://espn.go.com/blog/nfceast/post/_/id/10177/brooking-calls-final-vikes-score-classless
January, 17, 2010
JAN 17
6:02
PM ET
Email Print Share
By Matt Mosley
MINNEAPOLIS -- Tempers flared Sunday at the Metrodome after Minnesota’s final touchdown of a 34-3 playoff victory over Dallas. Cowboys linebacker Keith Brooking sprinted toward the Vikings’ sideline, taunting coach Brad Childress and later calling the late score “classless.”
Vikings nose tackle Pat Williams, meanwhile, said Brooking was lucky to escape the Minnesota sideline in one piece.
"We don’t care what Keith Brooking says,” Williams said. “He was about to get his *** whupped on our sideline over there. It don’t matter. Nobody said anything when they blew out the Eagles [the past two weeks]. It’s the playoffs. It ain’t no regular-season game. If you lose, you go home. We take no pity on them. Do they expect us to? I don’t care about no Brooking. He can say whatever he wants to say.”
To recap: Ahead 27-3 late in the fourth quarter, Childress left his starters in the game. The Cowboys gave up the ball on downs at their 37-yard line with 5:26 remaining, and the Vikings threw three passes on their ensuing six-play drive. The final one was an 11-yard touchdown pass to tight end Visanthe Shiancoe on fourth-and-3 with 1:55 remaining.
Cowboys coach Wade Phillips acknowledged that the Vikings ran up the score, but he didn't seem particularly bothered by it. But Brooking was about to take the last score in stride.
"I thought it was classless," he told me. "I thought it was B.S. Granted, we get paid to stop them, but we had zero timeouts left. I didn’t think there was any call for that."
Told of Brooking’s comments, Shiancoe laughed and said: “OK, we apologize. I’m sorry. Better?”
Feel free to weigh in both this post and over at SportsNation.
http://espn.go.com/blog/nfceast/post/_/id/10177/brooking-calls-final-vikes-score-classless
