MINNEAPOLIS — From Section 316 at U.S. Bank Stadium, things were looking bleak.
Some fans started leaving in the middle of the second quarter, when the Vikings looked more like a Keystone Kops routine than a team trying to clinch the NFC North. Paper airplanes rained down from bored fans. When quarterback Kirk Cousins kneeled to end the first half, the Vikings down 33-0 to a mediocre Indianapolis Colts team, the stadium echoed with boos.
If Brett Delage hadn't driven from Fergus Falls with his wife for seats he bought for $120 apiece, he said, he would have left at halftime too. It wasn't just that his team was losing. It was that his team was pathetic.
