At companies across the country, corporate training videos that the head office forces all the workers to watch are routinely mocked.
It turns out that the Vikings’ locker room is just like any other office.
After the Vikings watched this week’s league-mandated video on illegal hits, someone in the Vikings’ locker room drew a sarcastic diagram to explain the overriding message.
That diagram shows two similar drawings of one stick-figure football player hitting another. Next to the first drawing are the words, “QB or receiver that makes over $10M -- Illegal.”
Next to the second drawing are the words, “Punter or anyone else we don’t give a f--k about -- Legal.”
And under that is the summary: “Remember! We at the league office are totally concerned about integrity! Seriously! No really, we totally are!”
Vikings punter Chris Kluwe first tweeted a picture of the diagram, and the diagram specifically mentions that hits on punters are OK, presumably in response to the league using a hit on Seahawks punter Jon Ryan as an example of what is allowed. So it’s not unreasonable to think the diagram was Kluwe’s handiwork.
And it was hilarious.