Vikings’ Peterson a game-time decision

The Minnesota Vikings are willing to wait until game time to determine whether running back Adrian Peterson plays in the season opener against Jacksonville.

Coach Leslie Frazier said after Friday’s practice there is no reason to decide before the active list must be declared 90 minutes ahead of kickoff Sunday. This was a backtrack from Thursday, when Frazier said the Vikings would figure out Peterson’s status Friday night or this morning.

“We’ll definitely have an answer on Sunday, one way or another,” Frazier said, innocently stating the obvious.

Peterson, 27, was listed as questionable to play against the Jaguars on the injury report, which by definition gives him a 50-50 chance. The two-time All-Pro pick is recovering from reconstructive surgery to repair two torn ligaments in his left knee on Christmas Eve.

More Vikings

Minnesota has made a formal bid to play host to a Super Bowl. NFL spokesman Greg Aiello confirms the team’s application to be host of the 2018, ’19 or ’20 Super Bowls has been received. The ’18 game will be awarded at league meetings in May ’14, and the ’19 and ’20 Super Bowls will

be picked at the same forum the following two years. Minnesota last had a Super Bowl in 1992.

Jaguars

Maurice Jones-Drew has been briefed. He has heard all about Mike Mularkey’s touchdown policy, the one in which the Jacksonville coach donates money to charity every time a player scores and hands the ball to an official without any kind of celebration. Of everyone in Jacksonville’s locker room, JonesDrew could have the toughest time playing it straight. After all, the three-time Pro Bowl running back has celebrated nearly all his 74 career touchdowns in unique fashion.

Lions

A federal judge in Detroit has sentenced a 35-year-old Detroit Lions fan to three years’ probation for phoning in a bomb threat to the Louisiana Superdome during the New Orleans Saints’ playoff win against the Lions in January. Shawn H. Payton of Jackson pleaded guilty in June transmitting threats to injure in interstate communications. Prosecutors say Payton twice called the Superdome during the Jan. 7 game and claimed there was a bomb in the building. Besides the probation, Payton also must serve 60 days of home confinement.