With Jordan Love’s return from a knee injury, the Green Bay Packers thought they’d have a fun divisional battle with the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday afternoon. They thought wrong.
From the outset, the Vikings jumped on the Packers, with Sam Darnold launching absolute lasers all over the field and the Minnesota defense flustering a clearly uncomfortable Love to break any Packers’ offensive rhythm. By the conclusion of the first half, Minnesota held a likely insurmountable 28-7 lead.
You could see the frustration mount on the Green Bay sideline when Matt LaFleur wanted to call a late timeout, but was ignored by an official. This led to a furious temper tantrum that summed up a long 30 minutes for the green and gold:
Matt LaFleur tries to call a timeout late in the 2nd quarter. gets ignored, explodes, then gets a 15-yard unsportsmanlike conduct penalty and has to use that timeout ANYWAY to avoid a 10-second runoff pic.twitter.com/HM6HotKH8C
— Christian D'Andrea (@TrainIsland) September 29, 2024
This is what happens when you get embarrassed at home, ladies and gentlemen. One random moment of “disrespect” gets blown up into a whole viral moment people will laugh about for the next few days.