SID's JOTTINGS

• With the Vikings playing at the Gophers' TCF Bank Stadium for the next two years, don't be surprised if the team decides to play games in London in 2014 and 2015 if Sunday's game against Pittsburgh at Wembley Stadium is a success for the team and the NFL.

• The Vikings lost four Super Bowls in eight years, to Kansas City, Miami, Pittsburgh and Oakland. With the team playing the Steelers it's a reminder that most of the players who played in all four of those games thought that the Pittsburgh team from 1974 was the best. That team featured stars such as Franco Harris, Terry Bradshaw and Joe Greene, and in addition the Steelers drafted four players that year who went on to the Hall of Fame: Lynn Swann, Jack Lambert, John Stallworth and Mike Webster.

• Michael Cuddyer will almost surely wrap up his first batting title Sunday for the Colorado Rockies, and in the process become the first former Twins player to achieve that feat after leaving the team. Rod Carew won seven batting titles with the Twins but none with the Angels. Cuddyer entered Saturday trailing only Detroit Tigers star Miguel Cabrera in all of baseball with a .333 batting average. He also had 20 home runs, 84 RBI and 74 runs scored in 129 games.

• It was officially confirmed this week by the Philadelphia Inquirer that former Gophers men's basketball forward Rodney Williams signed a partly guaranteed multiyear contract to play for the 76ers.

• Former Gophers wide receiver Eric Decker had a slow start for the Broncos but exploded on "Monday Night Football" against the Raiders last week with eight catches for 133 yards and a touchdown. Decker has 19 receptions for 252 yards this season. In other news, Decker and his wife, singer Jessie James, are expecting their first child.