Suffering a season-ending knee injury doesn’t preclude Teddy Bridgewater from being pranked by his Minnesota Vikings teammates.
Well, by at least one of them.
Head coach Mike Zimmer related the following story during a media question-answer session on Monday.
“He’s here every day down here in the training room, same kid as he always been always with a smile on his face,” Zimmer said, per the team’s website. “Xavier Rhodes always comes in and unties his shoe. You know he’s sitting and you know he can’t reach his shoe, so Xav’ does it, and I was down there today and I tied it for him. I’m the shoe-tier now.”
Zimmer also mentioned he feels “extremely bad” for Bridgewater because of who he is as a person.
It’s nice to know that Bridgewater is able to stay positive throughout his ordeal, and that his teammates are still giving him crap. That’s the kind of camaraderie that will help him as he recovers throughout the coming year.
Also, given what we’ve seen from Zimmer since the knee injury, it’s easy to understand why his players adore him. As hard as he comes across, he’s got quite the soft, compassionate heart.
Bridgewater is set for surgery on Thursday to repair his ACL and other structural damage to his left knee.
We’ve all heard how bad it was, and offensive guard Alex Boone did nothing to downplay it. He said on the radio Tuesday that Bridgewater’s knee injury was “probably the craziest thing I’ve ever seen.”