Beware the hair, some Colt Anderson highlights for Minnesota Vikings fans

Your typical hype video, lots of highlights with music pulled from a Nike ad:

And a very insightful video from Draftguys.com highlighting the many positive attributes in Colt's game:

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Colt Anderson to the Vikings, Colin Dow to the Bengals

Colt Anderson and Colin Dow are the first two Montana Grizzlies to join NFL Teams. Anderson to the Minnesota Vikings with a three year deal and Dow joins the Bengals with a two year contract. NFL deals don't make much sense as they can essentially be torn up at any point but it's exciting none-the-less.

Here's what Colt had to say, from The Missoulian:

“It was tough watching guys you felt you were better than getting picked up,” admitted Anderson, who walked on at UM and leaves as a Football Championship Subdivision All-American. “It was frustrating to watch teams who you thought were interested in you take another guy.

“But bottom line, when the draft got over and teams started calling you - that was pretty exciting. A lot of teams showed interest.”
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Anderson said 10 teams had been in contact with him as the draft wound down.

“But it came down to just a couple,” said the hard-hitting safety. “I just felt Minnesota was the best opportunity for me. They thought I could have an impact for them.”

My advice to Colt (besides not trying in any game against the Packers): dye your hair blond in an effort to look Scandinavian and thus more like the Viking mascot. How could that possibly hurt your chances of sticking with the team?

And Dow's take on the whole ordeal:

“It was nerve-wracking,” said Dow, a two-time all-Big Sky guard who kept hearing positive comments on the phone, but seeing other players picked on ESPN. “They said, ‘Hold on and keep your head up.' Nothing came to fruition, in the draft anyway, but I have an opportunity in front of me either way, and I'm going to take advantage of it.” ...

“I had a choice between Chicago, San Diego and Cincinnati,” said Dow, who was flown in for interviews by both Chicago and Cincinnati.

The Bengals won out.

“I decided that was the place I had the best chance to come and maybe make a difference,” he said. “I used a lot of the same variables that I had to when I was choosing between Wyoming and Montana (for college). Hopefully it works out as well.”

Advice for Dow: Umm, keep Carson Palmer healthy, party with Chad Ocho Cinco while managing to not get arrested.

Have fun guys, looking forward to seeing who else will get picked up.

Grizzlies land nine on preseason All-Conference football team

More than 30 percent of this year's preseason All-Big Sky Conference football team will come from the University of Montana. Here's the complete team, with the Montana kids in bold:

Offense
  • QB-Cole Bergquist, Montana
  • RB-Lex Hillard, Montana
  • FB-Bobby McClintock, Portland State
  • TE-Shaun Fitzpatrick, Northern Arizona
  • OL-Cody Balogh, Montana
  • OL-David Hale, Weber State
  • OL-George Yarno, Idaho State
  • OL-Matt Alfred, Eastern Washington
  • OL-Brennan Carvalho, Portland State
  • WR-Alex Watson, Northern Arizona
  • WR-Eric Allen, Montana
  • WR-Eddie Thompson, Idaho State
  • K-Dan Carpenter, Montana
  • KR-Bryant Eteuati, Weber State
Defense
  • DE-Kroy Biermann, Montana
  • DE-Cole Smith, Portland State
  • DT-Aaron Papich, Montana State
  • DT-Dallas Mauga, Sacramento State
  • LB-Cyrus Mulitalo, Sacramento State
  • LB-Epikopo King, Montana State
  • LB-Tyler Joyce, Montana
  • LB-Bobby Daly, Montana State
  • LB-Jordan Senn, Portland State
  • CB-KJ Gerard, Northern Arizona
  • CB-Ricky Wilson, Northern Arizona
  • S-Torrey Thomas, Montana
  • S-Colt Anderson, Montana
  • P-Dan Zeidman, Idaho State
  • ST-Kenneth Mackins, Portland State
The most debatable UM selection has to be Cole Bergquist at quarterback. Odd that a guy who's never really been #1 on the depth chart and still hasn't been tabbed as the Griz starter would be voted the best signal-caller in the conference.

With almost half their starters on the all-conference team, it's not much surprise they were unanimously voted as the favorite to win the conference.