Jason Fabini was a rookie fourth-round draft pick of the Jets in 1998. Bill Parcells was his head coach, which became a flabbergasting fact when it was announced Fabini would start at right tackle on opening day.
Parcells didn't hate rookies, per se, but he liked when they thought of themselves as invisible and useless to him until they had put some pelts on the wall first.
"Normally, you equate rookies with mistakes," Parcells said at the time. "But this kid has been one of the rarest rookies I've had. This kid makes zero mistakes."
Why in the world is Bill Parcells being referenced in a Vikings article 11 months after the Wilfs sacked Mike Zimmer, expunging from Purple Nation forevermore the Parcells protégé and all his old-school tales from Parcells' Hall of Fame career?