Post by Oracle Bone Diviner on Nov 3, 2021 18:04:23 GMT -6
January 10, 2016, to be exact. That's when the future became clear to me. Everything we needed to know was right there in front of us, laid bare on the icy field.
I knew all I needed to know about 2 Vikings after that day...and neither of them was Blair Walsh!
For me it was Oct 23rd, 2016. The loss to Philly after the 5-0 start, which had been preceded by the weird, Zimmer putting mutilated stuffed animals in the locker room deal. Throwing players under the bus afterwards, calling them soft. And prior to that a presser I will never forget on Oct 21st, where he came in and was so arrogant and brusque with the press. Yeah he was 5-0, but he acted like he'd already won 3 Super Bowls and was entitled to piss on the assembled media. All that weird stuff in such a short period of time, with a 5-0 team. He was cracking under the "strain" of a situation most coaches would love to be in, just totally bizarre behavior. Not up to the job, it became apparent right then and there.
Then it just snowballed into 8-8 and all the other crap that year. Funny that last Viking game I attended in person was the Texans game a couple weeks earlier, where they got to 5-0. This is why I don't like going to games-- I guess I jinxed it all lol!