The Vikings released Bobby Wade on Thursday and signed free agent Greg Lewis. Wade agreed to take a pay cut just last week. Wade's $1.5 million salary, about half the original figure for 2009, would have been guaranteed for the season if he was on the roster for Sunday's opener at Cleveland. "It happens every year. It's the business portion," Childress said after practice. "We had a sitdown. That's never an easy discussion to have."