MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – The daughter of Minnesota Vikings head coach Mike Zimmer issued an impassioned defense of her father on social media this week in response to online criticism over the Vikings’ disappointing performance this season.
“My dad has lost 16 pounds this season because of stress,” Corri Zimmer White wrote on Instagram Tuesday. “[H]e gets to work every day at 4 a.m. and works until 9-10 at night.”
She lambasted “so-called fans” who made fun of her father’s appearance, and judged his every coaching decision.
“If you can’t appreciate and can’t recognize everything he’s done for this team, then you are no fan,” Zimmer White wrote.