Each year I always forget what the date is around this time of year and then after getting all worked up about the “news” that day I realize it’s far too late for us to run our own coordinated April Fool’s Joke.
Beyond that, it’s become so expected at this point that the real joke may be that we’re not running any fake headlines at all. That sounds like the contrived humble brag of a hipster, but I feel like we as Minnesota Vikings fans have been through enough and that getting people’s hopes up with fake signings or trades is like twisting the knife that is stuck in the back of the captain of the Titanic.