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The 2014 NFL season marked its first full Sunday of games with a 400-yard passing performance, two overtime games and three big upsets. Here are the day's most interesting facts:

Marshawn Lynch ran for 110 yards and two touchdowns, and the Seahawks bullied the Green Bay Packers, 36-16, in Seattle to win the opening game of the 2014 NFL season.

Suspensions to a few key players could impact the fortunes of several potential Super Bowl contenders when the NFL begins its 2014 season this week. Here's what you need to know heading into Week 1.

A new survey has figured out the most hated NFL team in each state. No surprise in Minnesota; the Packers top the Hate-O-Meter in the Land-O-Lakes. But what states have the Vikings on their 'hate list?" The answer might surprise you.

With the preseason now officially underway, and the Vikings taking on the Raiders this Friday in preseason action -- I thought it would be fun to see what Vegas thinks of the upcoming NFL season. Hint, The Vikes are not favored to win (anything).

The long drought known to us NFL fans as 'the offseason' ends in Canton, Ohio when the Buffalo Bills face the New York Giants in the annual 'Hall of Fame' game, the first preseason game, tonight at 7 PM CT on NBC (KARE-11).

On Sunday, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune revealed a confidential list of NFL demands the league placed on the host city, if Minneapolis wanted the 2018 Super Bowl to take place in the new Vikings stadium. It's unclear how much of it the Minnesotans agreed to, but here's part of the list (all at no cost to the league).

After picking up Anthony Barr, Teddy Bridgewater, Scott Crichton and Jerik McKinnon in the first two days of the NFL draft, the Minnesota Vikings added six players during day three.

Super Bowl XLVIII is less than a week away. Now that both the Denver Broncos and Seattle Seahawks have arrived in the New York metropolitan area, let's take a look at some fast facts about Sunday's game at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. (6:30 p.m. ET on Fox):

As the last two NFL teams left standing get ready for Super Bowl XLVIII, media coverage will analyze every possible storyline, particularly those about preparation, commitment and sacrifice. A young widow, no stranger to the same things, will be at Metlife Stadium in New Jersey to watch the Seahawks play the Broncos, but her path to the NFL's biggest game has been no ordinary journey.

TV ratings may not be the only thing high in the NFL next season.

In an interview with the NFL Network's Rich Eisen on Monday's edition of 'NFL Total Access,' NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell hinted that the league may get rid of the extra point. How do you feel about that?