ATLANTA – No offense, John Sullivan, but those of us covering the Vikings through both of your back surgeries in 2015 never in a million years would have predicted we’d see you as an active, starting player participating in Super Bowl LIII’s Opening Night.
“None taken,” laughed the Rams center.
“And, actually,” he added, “after the second surgery, I thought that might be it for me, too.”
And yet, here we were, standing on the floor of Atlanta’s State Farm Arena on Monday night as 10,000 fans hooted and hollered six days before “Sully” and his Rams face the Patriots at Mercedes-Benz Stadium.