Brett Favre, frowning and shaking his head, denied a report that he declined to meet with NFL security officials. Randy Moss left the locker room in a huff, refusing to speak with reporters.
Even with Moss playing in the Metrodome for the first time since 2004, the Vikings offense spent most of the afternoon moving sideways like a drunken crab. Then Brad Childress compared his team to migrant workers.
Imagine what the Vikings' mood would have been if they had lost.
We'll never know, because E.J. Henderson won a game and maybe even saved a season Sunday. His two interceptions doubled his team's season total and led to the winning field goal in the Vikings' gotta-have-it, 24-21 victory over Dallas, a victory that should make his team the logical favorite in the backsliding NFC North.
Ten months after shattering his femur, Henderson moved well enough to rescue an offense that has developed a severe limp.
"I'm not surprised by it," Favre said of Henderson's recovery. "He's really the quarterback of our style of defense ... .
"He does it as well as anybody. He never complains. That's one of the good stories in this league."
Henderson's first interception of the game -- and first since Oct. 22, 2006 -- gave the Vikings the ball on the Dallas 16, setting up their first touchdown. His second interception, midway through the fourth quarter, set up the game-winning field goal.