Kirk Cousins, wearing a grin, grabbed Vikings coach Mike Zimmer's sweatshirt and shoved. Zimmer pushed back, then smiled before a security guard enveloped him as if Zimmer were being attacked by a rabid bear.
The Vikings had just pulled off a victory made miraculous by their own ineptitude, and now Cousins and Zimmer were feeding raw video evidence of … something … to the trolls, critics, haters, wonderers, observers, analysts and worriers who have regarded this Vikings season as something ticking ominously in an unmarked duffel bag in the corner.
The Vikings needed to win in the worst way, and they did.