The Vikings were “lambasted at Lambeau” on Sunday, and it didn’t look a whole lot better the next day, as the sadness-fueled hangover finally subsided on Monday afternoon. In fact, it looked a little worse.
The Vikings special teams dug a hole for the Purple, and the Packers offense and defense buried them in it. The San Francisco 49ers won an overtime thriller shortly after the Vikings deposited 41-17 into our collective misery memory banks and virtually cemented the third seed in the playoffs for Minnesota. There is not much good to glean from that Green Bay beatdown, and Purple optimism is waning like our New Year’s resolution enthusiasm.