Welcome to game day, everybody! In a few hours, it will be time for another NFC North matchup between our Minnesota Vikings and the Chicago Bears from U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis. We want as many people as possible to be able to follow along with today’s contest, so we’re going to put all of the ways you can do that here in one place.
Television Info
This game is set to get underway at the best possible time for NFL action, that being noon Central time on Sunday. This one is going to be covered by the FOX family of networks, including KMSP-9 in the Twin Cities, and will be getting the “America’s Game of the Week” treatment as FOX will be putting their #1 team of Kevin Burkhardt and Tom Brady in the booth for this one. Here is this week’s map from the folks at 506 Sports, with the Bears/Vikings game represented by the red area.
If you are outside of the red area, you’ll have to look for the game on YouTube TV NFL Sunday Ticket.
For our men and women in uniform serving overseas. . .hey, the government shutdown is over and the American Forces Network is BACK, baby! This one is going to be airing LIVE on AFN Sports 2, with kickoff slated for 1800Z. That translates to a 1900L start time for viewers in Central Europe, 2100L for most viewers in the Middle East, and 0300L on Monday morning for fans in Japan and Korea.
Radio Info
If you’re going to be traveling or just prefer to listen to things through the magic of radio, we have updated our list of Vikings Radio Network affiliates for this season. Wherever you are in the upper Midwest, you should be covered.
If you have satellite radio, you can catch the Vikings feed on Channel 225. If you’re utilizing the SiriusXM app, you can listen on the Vikings’ permanent home there, which is Channel 820.
Referee Info
According to the gang at Football Zebras, the officiating crew for this one will be headed up by Brad Rogers. Hopefully this game will go better for the Vikings than the last time they saw Rogers and company, as it was his crew that called last year’s regular season finale in Detroit.
Weather Info
Once again, because this game is going to take place inside of U.S. Bank Stadium, the weather isn’t going to have any effect on the game itself. If you’re traveling to the game or partaking in any pre-game festivities. . .well, according to our friends at WeatherNation, it’s going to be just about as perfect a late fall day as you can hope for in the Twin Cities. Temperatures will be up into the low 40s by kickoff, with some light winds out of the west.
Betting Info
Not a whole lot of change from the initial betting lines in this one. The Vikings are still sitting as a 2.5-point favorite, while the over/under for this one currently rests at 47.5 points.
Streaming Info
This is a FOX game, so I don’t believe there are any other legal streaming means outside of YouTube NFL Sunday Ticket. I don’t care about illegal streams, but if you happen to share them here you’re going to get banned, so keep that in mind.
That should be everything you need to know to be caught up before kickoff today, ladies and gentlemen. We’ll have our first discussion thread of the day dropping about half an hour before kickoff, at around 11:30 AM Central time, and we hope that you’ll join us there for this one.
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