EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. -- After the Minnesota Vikings' 20-10 win over the Atlanta Falcons on Sunday, Vikings coach Mike Zimmer told his players in the locker room -- and reporters outside of it -- how much the victory meant to him on a personal level.
We posited the theory that the win carried some significance for Zimmer in part because of the one season he spent as defensive coordinator there in 2007, when the Falcons went 4-12 and head coach Bobby Petrino quit in December to take a job at Arkansas. Zimmer said Monday that his days in Atlanta didn't have anything to do with it.