In a sour turn of events, the Minnesota Vikings Week 16 game in New Orleans is a bragging-rights affair, for the most part. The Vikings dropped games to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Chicago Bears in Week 14 and 15, thus rendering the Saints meeting mostly irrelevant. Minnesota maintains a 2% chance to reach the postseason. One would have better odds drawing a Red King from a deck of playing cards on the first flip. It’s “possible, not probable” territory.
The franchise will play for pride of Christmas day with a side dish of the lottery-like probability of continuing a wildcard push.