EARTH CITY, Mo. -- It's been approximately a season and a half since the Minnesota Vikings walloped the St. Louis Rams on the opening day of the 2014 season.
Much has changed for both sides since the Vikings' 34-6 shellacking of the Rams at the Edward Jones Dome. In football time, a season and a half is a long time, but a game like that isn't easy to remove from the memory bank.
"You really just have that taste in your mouth that the last time you went up against him, they punched us right in the mouth out of the gate," linebacker James Laurinaitis said.