Need to apologize again to Fearless and any other Vikings fans. (I think FF is a Vikings fan, but I'm not sure.)
I watched them last night and as I've mentioned before, my own little voodoo hex kicked in for them. I hardly ever get Vikings or Bengals games and when they're on I try to watch, hoping to see Jefferson or Chase for nostalgic reasons, but also because I hear so much about them in the league. But all they ever do is suck arse when I watch.
I remembered the game was on a little late, so I turned it on just in time for Buck/Aikman talk about a Jefferson TD....which I missed. Then almost immediately--while I'm watching--he derps away an accurate throw that would've at worst been down inside the 5, maybe scored. That's followed up by Darnold misfiring several throws to him wide open, and also a crazy-good spin move on a defender for a first down that got nullified by a holding penalty. That's the kind of stuff, along with being erased by double-coverages, that happens when I try to watch those two guys.
At this point I'm almost ready to believe the rest of the world is gaslighting me and neither one of them are doing jack squat in the NFL, because they never do it when I'm watching. It's kind of like the quantum physics thing where my observation affects their reality. They're good, supposedly, as long as I'm not watching them.
Occasionally I would get up and do other stuff for a few minutes and I'd hear Buck call a completion or some type of good play for him.
Yeah, right. I'm on to you, Joe Buck.
