On the other side, the Vikings took full advantage of three lost fumbles, ill-timed penalties and conservative play-calling by the Bears. The Bears beat them badly between the 20s, but two touchdown passes by Cousins on third down plays from the 12 and the 7 were the difference.
The Bears crossed the goal line on the meaningless final play to make the final margin eight points, the 13th one-score game for the Vikings this year. There’s not a lot of room for error, and we’ve got to tighten the screws here and play our best football down the stretch,” said quarterback Kirk Cousins, who had only 87 yards passing, his career low as a starter, and took a season-high four sacks. Then comes a trip to Green Bay and another game against Chicago. That’ll be a tough task, with the Los Angeles Rams up next. So a lot of stuff is happening this year, but we just have to worry about ourselves and keep playing our ball and finish this season with three more wins,” wide receiver Justin Jefferson said. Everybody is losing games that nobody expected them to lose. They’ll wear that win over the rival Bears like an ugly Christmas sweater for now, before trying to find better outfits for their last three games. Hard to figure out, but also hard to get rid of.ĭespite an overall performance at Chicago on Monday night more befitting of a team bound for a high draft pick than a deep playoff run, the Vikings (7-7) pulled out a 17-9 victory to take at least temporary control of the final wild-card spot in the NFC. They’ve managed to both dominate and self-destruct in every facet of offense and defense over the course of the year, depending on the month or the week or even the quarter of a game. All rights reserved.MINNEAPOLIS (AP)The Minnesota Vikings remain a perplexing team to evaluate, now 14 games into this variety-pack season of late collapses, steely finishes and everything in between. This can be replaced with: Team A tosses back toppled kubb blocks and play continues)Ĭontact us at or visit us on the web at Copyright © 2013 Get Busy Playin', LLC. If Team B doesn't knock the king over with their remaining dowels. If their baseline had moved up, they still need to move back to the original baseline to toss at the king. Team B must use the remaining dowels to try and topple the king from their original baseline. Team B has knocked over all of Team A's field kubb blocks and baseline kubb blocks with two dowels left. Trying to get them as close together as possible to increase chances of toppling multiple kubb blocks in one toss. (This is an optional rule to speed up game play.) If two or more of the kubb blocks come into contact with one another, Team B has to stack them. For instance, they could put the field kubb a minimum of one block length from the king or they can put them just in front of their baseline kubb blocks.įrom their new baseline created by the closest field kubb block to the king left standing from Team A’s previous turn. The opposing team may put the blocks where ever they want. If kubb blocks tossed onto the opposing team’s field do not make it within the field boundary in two tries, They must knock over the field kubb blocks before the baseline. Where they lie, in either direction but they must be facing Team A. One at a time trying to knock over as many baseline kubb blocks as they can. Whoever gets their dowel closest to the king without touching it, goes first. However, if the king is knocked over any time during play, the offending team loses. To win, a team must knock all of their opponent’s kubb blocks over and successively knock over the king. The dowels MUST be tossed underhand, end-over-end, no helicopters. The object of the game is to knock as many of your opponent’s kubb blocks over as you can using the dowels. The pitch is split up into halves, each team with their respective fields. Baseline kubb blocks are set up evenly between the corner stakes with the king in the middle of the pitch. Kubb is typically played on a rectangular pitch approximately 16’ x 26’ (8m x 5m).
Kubb provides fun for all ages, everyone can play!Īn official kubb set consists of the following: Kubb is typically played on grass, but kubb could also be played on sand, dirt, or even snow. Although its true origins may be unknown, the game is well known throughout the world and is quickly becoming one of the most popular outdoor lawn games.
Kubb (pronounced ‘KOOB’) is a Swedish lawn game said to have been played all the way back in the Viking ages.