Just when it appeared the Minnesota Vikings were having their most boring, drama-free training camp in years, a gift landed in Eagan on Wednesday in the form of butt sweat.
You read that right: Butt sweat.
It wasn’t Favre Watch of 2009 and ’10, nor the grewsome, traumatic, season-ending knee injury quarterback Teddy Bridgewater suffered at camp in 2016.
But “Butt Sweat” sure was… something for a few hours on social media. It trended.
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Asked about his chemistry with rookie center Garrett Bradbury, quarterback Kirk Cousins joked about how excessively Bradbury perspirates from all pores of his body.
Most importantly, from Bradbury’s, umm, posterior, which could cause fumbling issues, something of which Cousins is no stranger.
“Well, I’m going to take it back to how much he sweats again,” Cousins said with a cheshire cat grin. “He promises that it’s not a problem in games. And, it remains to be seen because today, his shorts were soaked. And, he says it’s not a problem on gamedays, so the moment of truth is Friday night.”
That’s when the Vikings play at New Orleans in their preseason opener, a game that will be broadcast exclusively in Sioux Falls on 107.9 FM.
“But apparently you know they keep those domes air-conditioned, you get a break on the bench with those cooling fans, I’m hoping that really helps,” he said. “That’s a big thing I’m going to take away from Friday night, was how tough was it to grip the ball after he snaps it to me. If it is tough, we might be in pistol and shotgun all year, which coach [Gary] Kubiak and Kevin [Stefanski] wouldn’t like very much.”
Fortunately for the Vikings, they play in the enclosed US Bank Stadium.
A reporter followed up by asking Cousins if posterior sweating is something that should be scouted ahead of time with centers.
“I haven’t talked to our scouting department about that,” Cousins said, chuckling. “But I want to look at him and say, you know, that’s one thing we probably didn’t get a measurement on during the pre-draft process.”
Cousins wasn’t done.
“But it’s really not just posterior, it’s really the whole thing. I mean, I look at his shins, and it’s just pouring. It looks like my window after a rain storm. And, I just look at my shins, and it’s just genetic, I guess.”
Sounds like an innocent wise crack, but his own meeting with a huddle of reporters, the businesslike Bradbury did not seem to be amused by the questions about his “dripping derriere,” a term used by Yahoo Sports in their account of this story.
“We are out here working.” Bradbury said. “I don’t really know how to answer that.”
It is a funny story in the juvenile sense.
Butt seriously, the chemistry between quarterback and new, first round center on a team with plenty of pressure to reach and make noise in the playoffs is not a laughing matter.
Well, actually, perhaps more friction in this specific case would be better.
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