Anyone in the Minnesota Vikings front office still have Brett Favre’s telephone number handy?
Yes, it’s a bad joke. But gallows humor is fitting in Minnesota where Super Bowl LI hopes crumbled Tuesday in the same fashion as quarterback Teddy Bridgewater’s left knee.
When Bridgewater was taken away from the team’s practice facility in an ambulance following a gruesome non-contact injury, Minnesota’s championship hopes left with him. The one position where a stacked Vikings roster couldn’t afford a major injury is now exposed for the rest of the NFC to capitalize upon.
Minnesota fans looking for a shred of hope will point to the 1999 St.