Mike Priefer’s cellphone rang, as it usually does soon after a Vikings game. Chuck Priefer, as always, was on the other end. No greetings were necessary between son and father.
“I picked up the phone and we just laughed,” said Mike, the Vikings special teams coordinator. “My dad was Marty Mornhinweg’s special teams coordinator in Detroit [in 2002] when Marty won the overtime coin toss and chose to kick off. It didn’t work out so well for him.