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The post-practice fare is Chinese food, spread over a long table covered with a red-and-white picnic cloth. At the end sits a lonely metal bowl full of fortune cookies, the only food that has gone relatively untouched. Maybe the Minnesota Vikings can't bear it, a glance into the future, because the present is convoluted enough. But it seems so simplistic, so harmonious, 53 men breaking bread -- or slurping lo-mein -- in their locker room. At their feet, on the carpet, is a giant Viking head; on the top of the doorway outside is a sign. It says, US-WE-TEAM. Inside, they are one. Outside, a storm is brewing.
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