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Shaun Hill will make his first start in nearly three years on Sunday, against the team that gave him his first NFL action. He hopes he'll end the game for the St. Louis Rams by doing the only thing he ever got to do for the Minnesota Vikings: taking a knee.

Hill, who was signed by the Vikings as an undrafted free agent in 2002 and got on the field for a pair of kneel-downs at the end of a Vikings victory over the Bears in 2005, will start against the Vikings on Sunday in place of Sam Bradford, who will miss the season with a torn ACL. The 34-year-old Hill, to whom coach Jeff Fisher said the Rams have committed to for the 2014 season, could be in line to start at least 10 games for just the second time in his career and the first since 2010, when he saw 10 starts for the Detroit Lions in place of an injured Matthew Stafford.

The quarterback's last start came on Jan. 2, 2011, in the final game before Leslie Frazier had the interim tag removed from his head coaching title. On Sunday, he'll face the Vikings in the debut of Frazier's successor, Mike Zimmer.

Hill was willing to laugh at himself during a conference call with reporters on Wednesday, saying his first kneel-down with the Vikings was his favorite of the two. If his NFL career had ended there, Hill recalled thinking, "I'm going to have the world's shortest highlight film."

But the quarterback is starting in the NFL nine years later, and the Vikings are once again involved in his NFL odyssey.

"My mind-set then is the same one I've tried to carry throughout my whole career," he said. "I don't know how long I'm going to be here, but give it all we've got today and let the rest take care of itself."

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