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Vikings' defense keys turnaround

By Len Pasquarelli
ESPN.com

Sunday, November 27, 2005

Looking for reasons to assign to the Minnesota Vikings' turnaround, a stretch in which the laughingstock franchise has turned the jokes on nearly everyone else on the schedule, winning five of six contests, including four straight? How has the dysfunctional "Love Boat" gang righted the ship, you wonder, battled back into fringe playoff contention and perhaps (gasp) provided first-year owner Zygi Wilf reason to reconsider the employment status of head coach Mike Tice at the end of the campaign? ...

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