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Under first-year general manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah and first-year head coach Kevin O’Connell, the Vikings do extensive research before making all sorts of decisions. And that was the case before the team decided when it would leave for next Sunday’s game in London against New Orleans.
When the Vikings played in London in 2013, they left Monday night and arrived Tuesday morning. When they played there in 2017, they left Wednesday night and arrived Thursday morning. For the game against the Saints, they will depart Thursday night and arrive Friday morning.
“I do rely heavily on the sports performance side of things,’’ O’Connell said. “I have not made the trip to London, so this will be my first. I will say that we spent a lot of time talking about how we’re going to handle it, (including) consulting with the players of which have made two or three of those kind of trips. So we do feel good about our plan.”
While the Vikings left at different times for their previous two Sunday games in London, they won both. They defeated Pittsburgh 34-27 in 2013 under head coach Leslie Frazier and Cleveland 33-16 in 2017 under Mike Zimmer.

The Vikings were the home team in 2013, the road team in 2017, and again will be the road team against the Saints. The Saints will fly to London after their game Sunday at Carolina and arrive Monday morning.
“It’s a heck of a travel no matter how you do it, and I think there are a lot of philosophies to it,’’ O’Connell said.
The Vikings will fly home immediately after the game. Unlike after their two previous games in London, they will not have a bye the following week. They will return to face Chicago at home on Oct. 9.
O’Connell said the Vikings will plunge quickly into preparation for the game against New Orleans after they face Detroit on Sunday at U.S. Bank Stadium. The Vikings will practice at the TCO Performance Center on Wednesday and Thursday and in London on Friday. O’Connell said they will “condense some meeting times a little bit” during the week.
Equipment manager Dennis Ryan said he has been working diligently on getting ready for the trip since it was officially announced May 4 that the Vikings would play in London. He said the team long has been assembling a list of items for a manifest that must be turned into customs in the United Kingdom.

“It’s quite a lengthy document, and right away we started going through it,’’ said Ryan, saying the Vikings must include the value of everything they bring and in what country items were made.
Ryan said the Vikings will bring about 20,000 pounds of equipment, a similar amount to their last two trips to London and more than the roughly 17,000 pounds taken for a typical regular-season game. The difference in going overseas is the Vikings need equipment for practices, and the traveling party is larger.
Ryan, who has been with Minnesota since 1975, has accompanied the team on all of its international trips. Prior to their first regular-season game abroad in 2013, the Vikings played preseason games in London in 1983, in Gothenburg, Sweden in 1988, in Berlin in 1993 and in Tokyo in 1994.
For the London game in 1983, Ryan said the traveling party was much smaller, and the Vikings only took about 7,500 pounds of equipment.
The Vikings will face the Saints at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, the fourth different stadium used in four trips to London. They played at the old Wembley Stadium in 1983, the new Wembley Stadium in 2013 and at Twickenham Stadium in 2017.
Ryan hasn’t yet been to Tottenham Hotspur Stadium but has “heard it’s impressive as far as an NFL facility” and that it has a big locker room. The surface is Turf Master, which will make it the first time Minnesota has played on artificial turf in Europe.

https://www.twincities.com/2022/09/23/vikings-wont-be-in-london-very-long-for-game-against-saints/

Hurry-up Vikings, we ain't getting any younger! 

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@"JimmyinSD" said: Ugh,  realized last night the game is on the NFLN,  which isn't carried by DTV stream.... and the bars aren't open yet so....WTF :#
Youtube TV

You should be able get a free trial just for the game. 

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@"MaroonBells" said:
@"JimmyinSD" said: Ugh,  realized last night the game is on the NFLN,  which isn't carried by DTV stream.... and the bars aren't open yet so....WTF :#
Youtube TV

You should be able get a free trial just for the game. 



Thanks,  I also stumbled across another option that is NFL+,  a mobile app that is $5 per month,  but has a 7 day free trial, I think I could pull it up on my phone and then screen share to the tv?

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I always use the free stream on NFL Bite (used to be Reddit).  You have to say no to a few popups before it launches but I've had luck getting the games in Packerland.

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@"badgervike" said: I always use the free stream on NFL Bite (used to be Reddit).  You have to say no to a few popups before it launches but I've had luck getting the games in Packerland.
Ha, I'm near the capital next to Bradberry's doing the same from my place.  NFLBite doesn't work as well as it did last year and it takes some patience but it's free and fuck DirectTV/AT&T/theNFL 
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@"Skodin" said:
@"badgervike" said: I always use the free stream on NFL Bite (used to be Reddit).  You have to say no to a few popups before it launches but I've had luck getting the games in Packerland.
Ha, I'm near the capital next to Bradberry's doing the same from my place.  NFLBite doesn't work as well as it did last year and it takes some patience but it's free and fuck DirectTV/AT&T/theNFL 
so how does this nflbite not get sued by the nfl for sharing their owned content?  Mike has gotten in trouble in the past for having protected content on this site,  I would have to think the NFL is aware of this service.
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@"JimmyinSD" said:
@"Skodin" said:
@"badgervike" said: I always use the free stream on NFL Bite (used to be Reddit).  You have to say no to a few popups before it launches but I've had luck getting the games in Packerland.
Ha, I'm near the capital next to Bradberry's doing the same from my place.  NFLBite doesn't work as well as it did last year and it takes some patience but it's free and fuck DirectTV/AT&T/theNFL 
so how does this nflbite not get sued by the nfl for sharing their owned content?  Mike has gotten in trouble in the past for having protected content on this site,  I would have to think the NFL is aware of this service.
I think their servers are offshore and outside of jurisdictional control.  I actually haven't had to use NFLBite this year...first game was Packers so local, 2nd game was Mon nite and Lions game was the early Fox game with Packers as the late Fox game...so divisional game was on local.  I have NFLN as part of my Hulu live package so will get this game as well.  Hulu Live is yet one more way to get the game via free trial.

Next week the Packers are in London and Vikings / Bears are playing divisional so I'm hoping to get yet one more on local broadcast and keep the streak alive.

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@"badgervike" said:
@"JimmyinSD" said:
@"Skodin" said:
@"badgervike" said: I always use the free stream on NFL Bite (used to be Reddit).  You have to say no to a few popups before it launches but I've had luck getting the games in Packerland.
Ha, I'm near the capital next to Bradberry's doing the same from my place.  NFLBite doesn't work as well as it did last year and it takes some patience but it's free and fuck DirectTV/AT&T/theNFL 
so how does this nflbite not get sued by the nfl for sharing their owned content?  Mike has gotten in trouble in the past for having protected content on this site,  I would have to think the NFL is aware of this service.
I think their servers are offshore and outside of jurisdictional control.  I actually haven't had to use NFLBite this year...first game was Packers so local, 2nd game was Mon nite and Lions game was the early Fox game with Packers as the late Fox game...so divisional game was on local.  I have NFLN as part of my Hulu live package so will get this game as well.  Hulu Live is yet one more way to get the game via free trial.

Next week the Packers are in London and Vikings / Bears are playing divisional so I'm hoping to get yet one more on local broadcast and keep the streak alive.



My daughter has HULU live,  maybe I can steal their stream for the game?

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@"JimmyinSD" said:
@"MaroonBells" said:
@"JimmyinSD" said: Ugh,  realized last night the game is on the NFLN,  which isn't carried by DTV stream.... and the bars aren't open yet so....WTF :#
Youtube TV

You should be able get a free trial just for the game. 



Thanks,  I also stumbled across another option that is NFL+,  a mobile app that is $5 per month,  but has a 7 day free trial, I think I could pull it up on my phone and then screen share to the tv?


I tried that a few years ago on the NFL app and it wouldn't let me.  They wouldn't let the stream be sent to another device.

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@"greediron" said:
@"JimmyinSD" said:
@"MaroonBells" said:
@"JimmyinSD" said: Ugh,  realized last night the game is on the NFLN,  which isn't carried by DTV stream.... and the bars aren't open yet so....WTF :#
Youtube TV

You should be able get a free trial just for the game. 



Thanks,  I also stumbled across another option that is NFL+,  a mobile app that is $5 per month,  but has a 7 day free trial, I think I could pull it up on my phone and then screen share to the tv?


I tried that a few years ago on the NFL app and it wouldn't let me.  They wouldn't let the stream be sent to another device.


well that sucks.

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@"JimmyinSD" said:
@"badgervike" said:
@"JimmyinSD" said:
@"Skodin" said:
@"badgervike" said: I always use the free stream on NFL Bite (used to be Reddit).  You have to say no to a few popups before it launches but I've had luck getting the games in Packerland.
Ha, I'm near the capital next to Bradberry's doing the same from my place.  NFLBite doesn't work as well as it did last year and it takes some patience but it's free and fuck DirectTV/AT&T/theNFL 
so how does this nflbite not get sued by the nfl for sharing their owned content?  Mike has gotten in trouble in the past for having protected content on this site,  I would have to think the NFL is aware of this service.
I think their servers are offshore and outside of jurisdictional control.  I actually haven't had to use NFLBite this year...first game was Packers so local, 2nd game was Mon nite and Lions game was the early Fox game with Packers as the late Fox game...so divisional game was on local.  I have NFLN as part of my Hulu live package so will get this game as well.  Hulu Live is yet one more way to get the game via free trial.

Next week the Packers are in London and Vikings / Bears are playing divisional so I'm hoping to get yet one more on local broadcast and keep the streak alive.



My daughter has HULU live,  maybe I can steal their stream for the game?


I don't know where she lives in relation to you.  The deal with Hulu live is that you need to sign into your home area within 30 days if you're going to use it elsewhere "for travel".  You are allowed one of each (home and travel) simultaneously as long as you've signed in on your remote device recently.  I sign in to Hulu Live on my home network with my laptop before I head up to the lake place (which is in a different broadcast area) and than I can stream up there.  If she lives close, just get her user name and password and try it over the weekend before the game (so you know it will work).  

Edit:  It may be tied to your home network not area so you would have to go to her place with your mobile device or laptop and login.  That gives you 30 days of streaming.

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Now that this game is upon us I can’t help but feel like I missed an opportunity to travel across the pond with some Vikings buddies of mine and make fools of ourselves. Classic rock and spice girls playlists. Bad Austin Powers and Aldous Snow impressions. And pints. Lots of pints. Conservatively, I think we could have set foreign relations back about 200 years. Next time!

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