Some Saturday Football Thoughts

 Here are some of my football thoughts as we plow through the offseason.

1. Happy 94th Birthday Coach Grant!

2. Happy 81st Birthday Mick Tingelhoff!

3. Former Vikings center Godfrey Zaunbrecher once said, “I’m the third-string center behind Tingelhoff and Tingelhoff hurt.”

4. I always look forward to Peter King’s annual reporting on the league’s schedule-making process. It was interesting to learn that one of the things that bounced a possible schedule was that it had the Minnesota Vikings opening the season with @ San Francisco and @ Arizona. The schedule-makers decided that was too much travel. If that was enough to scrap that schedule, how’d the Vikings November on the accepted schedule pass the travel test. @Baltimore, @San Francisco, Green Bay, and @Los Angeles. That’s three coast trips over four weeks. 

5. Vikings 2021 Offensive Line:

Christian Darrisaw

Ezra Cleveland

Garrett Bradbury

Wyatt Davis

Brian O’Neill

I haven’t been this excited about a Vikings offensive line since Steve Hutchinson was a part of it. 

6. The Cleveland Browns selected Barkevious Mingo with the sixth pick of the 2013 NFL Draft. Through eight seasons the most remarkable thing about Mingo’s career was that he was selected with the sixth pick of the 2013 NFL Draft. And that wonderful name. At least that was the case until I stumbled upon this Mingo nugget from NFLonCBS.

Barkevious Mingo is the first player ever to play all his team’s games in six straight seasons, all while playing for 6 different teams.

2015: Browns

2016: Patriots

2017: Colts

2018: Seahwawks

2019: Texans

2020: Bears

2021: Falcons for 7 straight?!

7. From the Pro Football Hall of Fame:

There are four Hall of Famers that have glasses on their Bronzed Busts:

Joe Gibbs

Lamar Hunt

Dan Rooney

Ron Wolf

George Young boosts the count to five. 

8. Tim Tebow. Has any player gotten so much attention from doing so little? He was a great college football player. He was a terrible professional quarterback. Watching him throw a football caused me physical pain. I’d rather watch Spergon Wynn throw a football. The only good thing that I can say about Tebow’s reappearance as a tight end/H-back/coaches pet is that it’s slightly less annoying than the attention given his return.

9. Christian Darrisaw, Ezra Cleveland, Garrett Bradbury, Wyatt Davis, Brian O’Neill. Can’t wait to see these five on the field together.