FedEx Field, home to the Washington Redskins, is becoming somewhat of a home away from home for the Minnesota Vikings. With Saturday's Christmas Eve 33-26 victory over the Redskins, the Vikings snapped their six game losing streak, and with the third win of the season, averted any chance of finishing worse than the 1984 Vikings who finished 3-13. For now, that team is the worst team in Viking history since the league expanded to its 16-game regular season format in 1978.

FedEx Field was the site of Brad Childress' first victory as a head coach, as well as Leslie Frazier's. With last year's victory over the host Redskins, the visiting Vikings have won all three played in Washington over the past five years. The Vikings did lose one game to the Redskins during that span, a 32-21 home loss in 2007. Go figure.

The Vikings have won just nine games out of their 31 played these last two seasons, with two of those nine wins being at the friendly confines of FedEx Field. Frazier is 2-0 in Washington and 4-15 everywhere else. If management changes its public position and does decide to fire Frazier after this season, perhaps the Redskins' Owner Daniel Snyder will hire him to replace Mike Shanahan as the Redskins' next head coach.

Heck, why not? Frazier has two wins at Washington in two tries, and two wins in Minnesota in nine tries. (One of Frazier's "home" games was actually played in Detroit, so there's no counting that game as one having been played in Minnesota).

All has not gone hunky-dory in the past two trips to FedEx Field for the Vikings however. The face of the franchise, Running Back Adrian Peterson, suffered a game-ending ankle injury during the first half of last year's game, and a very severe (reports are a torn ACL and a torn MCL) knee injury on the first play of the second half of this year's game.

As for Peterson playing in what many have labeled, a "meaningless" game, here says there are no "meaningless" regular season games. Exhibition games are "meaningless". Regular season and post-season games are what the players and coaches are paid very handsomely to produce in. If a team's horses are ready to play, and the outcomes of the games are still in doubt, the team plays its horses. Period. Yes bad things can happen, but unfortunately injuries are an uncontrollable  part of football.

While FedEx Field has been such a dismal site for Peterson, it has not been for second-year Running Back Toby Gerhart. In the two games at Washington that Gerhart has taken over for the injured Peterson, the Stanford University product has showcased big-time running skills of his own. Basically, Gerhart has played two halves of football at FedEx Field, and has rushed for a total of 185 yards on 33 carries (5.6 yards per carry), and scored two touchdowns.

The other player who flourished Saturday in another relief role was backup Quarterback Joe Webb. On the play following the Peterson injury, starting Quarterback Christian Ponder suffered a hit they may have caused a concussion. After one more snap, the rookie retired to the locker room for the rest of the game.

Webb, as in his relief role in Detroit, instantly ignited the offensive attack. Webb's first three possessions resulted in touchdown drives of 75, 73 and 72 yards. His fourth possession resulted in a short field goal and his fifth possession consisted of  three conservative running plays in an attempt to run the clock out and preserve the win.

Make no mistake about it, Ponder is a promising rookie quarterback, who did not perform badly on Saturday after a couple of rocky starts recently. That being said, Webb now nonetheless, has clearly established himself as the better prospect between the two, and appears fully capable of becoming one of the league's truly dynamic weapons at his position. Given that Webb indeed showed these signs last year as a rookie himself, it continues to beg the question as to why the Vikings chose to draft another quarterback in this year's first round. The natural inclination for any team is to prove the investment of a first round pick worthy, and when there is a better player at that position, a controversy is the probable result. Well Minnesota, welcome to your self-induced quarterback controversy.

On New Year's Day, the Vikings will close out the season hosting the Chicago Bears. Da' Bears also will not be making a trip to the playoffs this year. This is the final game for the Vikings scheduled to be played at the Metrodome before their current lease expires. After 30 seasons at that venue, should the Vikings need a new place to play next year, hey maybe Snyder will lease out FedEx Field to them, that way the Vikings - given how well they play there - could be back in the playoffs sooner rather than later.

Given that the Redskins have only hosted one playoff game in the stadium's entire existence - that game being way back in 1999  - it's not likely that they will need it come next January anyway. Therefore, the Vikings could enjoy an 8-0 "home" record and probably "host" playoff football again. Such a hysterical arrangement could actually work out to be a win-win situation for the playoff-starved Snyder as well as the potentially homeless Vikings.

Well what's worse, a Minnesota Vikings team that wins, but oh-by-the-way plays its home games in Washington, or the Los Angeles Vikings?