Minnesota Vikings

2012 record: 10-6

Lost in NFC Wild Card round

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1) No matter what he does on the field, Cordarrelle Patterson’s will struggle to match his first NFL impression.

The first round pick from Tennessee sported a white tuxedo jacket, bowtie and an expensive multi-colored Louis Vuitton belt during his draft night at Radio City Music Hall.

2) Backup quarterback McLeod Bethel-Thompson’s grandfather won a gold medal at the 1948 Olympics.

Wilbur “Moose” Thompson placed first in the shot put at the summer games in London.

3) Christian Ponder’s wedding night dinner was at Arby’s



The Vikings quarterback and his wife, ESPN personality Samantha Ponder, hit the fast food restaurant after a pre-Christmas civil ceremony in Wisconsin.

4) Tight end Kyle Rudolph was originally set to play basketball at Wake Forest.

“I was going to go to Wake Forest and play basketball and then summer rolled around before my junior year and I went to a few football camps,” Rudolph told the Star-Tribune in 2011. “Coaches convinced me otherwise. They said, ‘You should probably think about this football thing, it might work all right for you.’ I’m still the same height now as I was as a sophomore in high school, so I think that had a little to do with it as well.”

5) Bothering Adrian Peterson with dumb questions can result in karmic justice.



It certainly did in the case of this TMZ interviewer, who approached the star on a Washington D.C. street in April.

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