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Looking Back On Some Of The Top Stories In 2014

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Another eventful year!

It’s the perfect time once again for a quick and final review of some of the biggest stories on the FM Observer in the last year.

From my perspective, here is the Top Ten List for 2014:

10. Blind Bowler Bowls Back-To-Back Perfect Games – Read story here

9. GM Recall Expands To Every Car Ever Made – Read story here

8. Fargo Named Drunkest City In America – Read story here

7. Fargo’s ESPN Game Day Crowd Swells To A Million – Read story here

6. North Dakota Gets Its Own NFL Team Franchise – Read story here

5. Star Trek’s USS Enterprise Coming To Fargo – Read story here

4. WE Fest Cancelled Due To Diseased Tick Invasion – Read story here

3. Moorhead Haunted House Worth Avoiding – Read story here

2. FM Observer Becomes Dominant Area News Source – Part 1  Part 2  Part 3

1. We lost Cody Marthaller, Co-Founding Father of the FM Observer – Part 1  Part 2

Happy New Year 2015 from the FM Observer! If you must drink and drive, drink water.

BREAKING: Vikings Trade Away Six Draft Picks To Keep Adrian Peterson


Minneapolis, MN—I believe the old saying goes, “In with the new, in with the old.” That’s the mantra around Minnesota Vikings football team headquarters these days as newly-acquired head coach Mike Zimmer is employing some old tricks that long-time fans of the Purple have seen before.

As reported by Matt Drangle of the Minneapolis Sun-Times, the Vikings have traded away their 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th-round 2014 draft picks for the rights to keep star running back Adrian Peterson. This leaves them with only 6th and 7th-round picks.

“When you’re carrying a loaded magnum with six bullets, what are you gonna do? NOT fire the gun?” quoted coach Zimmer. “We spoke to the league. They agreed that there’s nothing in the NFL Book of Bylaws that says you can’t have an NFL draft fire sale every 20 years or so. This will keep our offense on the right track and save us a ton of cap space by not having to ink a fleet of unproven rookies.”

Coach went on to explain that draft picks are just numbers, they’re not even players and that trading away numbers for an actual player was good strategy. Coach’s strategy is particularly baffling as the player in question is currently under contract. At press time it is not certain where the traded-away draft picks will end up, but it sounds likely that they will be donated to a local non-profit organization.

Not since 1989 have the Purple traded away a heavy handful of draft picks for a mega-talent. It appears coach Zimmer abides by another old saying: “When in Rome, do as the Romans do.”

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