Prince Salutes Minnesota Vikings with Fight Song

By Sam Brand Posted Jan 22nd 2010 01:52PM

Minnesota native Prince "saw the future" while watching the Vikings throttle the Cowboys last week. He's created a pop-slash-fight song to take Brett Favre and team to the Super Bowl. Diane von Furstenberg appeared on 'The View' to plug a new collection of home furnishings. And jilted mistress YaVaughnie Wilkins has spent $250,000 on billboards to take revenge on millionaire mogul Charles Phillips. This is What You're Searching For Today...

Prince Vikings Song – Chilling at a sportsbar, eating wings and slurping down a Bud is the last place you'd expect to find pop superstar Prince. But Prince is a football fan. Or maybe he's just a Minnesota fan. The 51-year-old Minneapolis native watched the Vikings smash the Cowboys last week, and according to Minneapolis' Fox affiliate, Prince "saw the future." He went home after the game, "wrote the song, 'Purpe and Gold,' and said the song came easy and fast." Now the R&B inflected fight song is taking the internet by storm. Better "Purple and Gold" than "Pants on the Ground."

Diane von Furstenberg – DVF appeared on 'The View' today to talk about "her career and the history behind some of her most memorable designs." The 63-year-old Belgian fashion legend appeared on the show just days after announcing the launch of a home décor line. "The design of your home is a reflection of who you are," von Furstenberg said in a statement. "Since my business is so textiles driven, this is a natural for me," she tells Home Furnishing News. It's the first "full, freestanding home collection" of the designer's illustrious career, according to Shelterpop. "What had held me back is that the distribution of home products is so odd," Von Furstenberg continued. The collection, made in partnership with Springs Global, will be released next January.

Charles Phillips and YaVaughnie Wilkins – Charles Phillips is the president of multi-billion dollar company Oracle. He made $19 million last year. Yavaughnie Wilkins was his mistress for 8 ½ years. They lived together and played together and went to social events together, but the whole time, Charles was married to another woman. Late last year, Charles Phillips "dumped" Yavaughnie Wilkins to reconcile with his wife. Wilkins didn't take the news too well. She's since spent $250,000 on revenge billboards across the country. "'You are my soulmate forever!' –cep," says a massive billboard in New York City's Time Square. It's just one of several embarassing billboards possibly timed to sabotage a major Oracle event planned for Jan. 27.

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Friday 22 January

By Jan

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The song is a marching army type song. perfect for football!!! Prince is weird but unique, brilliant and a musical genius. Prince is "one of a kind"--once gone there will never be another--just like Elvis, Frankie, Liberace and Michael Jackson...they were all special....Prince is one of them....

Saturday 02 October

By Christopher Panzullo

I could not of said it any better myself... Dito.

By leroy

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I hope that song is Darlin Nikki.Cuz thats what the Vikings are to every team they play..UH UH UH YEAHHHHHH !! FIRST AND YOU`RE NOT ..UH UH UH

By Jim Fedullo

go vikings, go jets. i had 4 friends out of Arkansas who were drafted by the jets & our QB was Joe Ferguson & after I got out of the V.A. hosp, wounded twice in Vietnam, I went back to school at Minnesota when the Tark, Eller, Paige & White played. Frank Broyles, Bud Grant & Bear Bryant ( whom i had the luck yo meet many years ago), were my favorite coaches. if all goes ok this weekend, i'll be in HOG heaven.

By htcorner23

New Orleans musical tradition: Dr. John, Professor Longhair, Fats Domino, the Nevilles, the Meters, Harry Connick Jr. and too many more to mention.

Minnesota music tradition: Prince?

Saints Win! WHO DAT!?!?!?

By renantech

the song was very impressive i love the song.. Sikat ang Pinoy

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