Bryant McKinnie would have returned to game

LT Bryant McKinnie (finger) would have returned to the game Thursday night if the Vikings had another possession late in the fourth quarter.

McKinnie took a lot of flak for being carted off with finger injury, but the Vikings cart all injured players to the locker room. Though the finger ended up being dislocated, McKinnie expects to play next week against the Dolphins.

McKinnie got a ton of grief on Twitter last night when he left the game in the fourth quarter with a dislocated finger, abandoning his team while they were trying to mount a desperate late comeback.

Actually, the grief wasn’t so much about him leaving the game, it was the fact that he had to be driven off on a cart when it was “only” a finger injury. The reason for McKinnie being carted off is because it is Vikings policy to cart all players off when they have suffered an injury.

I won’t repeat some of the things Bryant was called. Suffice it to say, fans were not thrilled with what they perceived to be a lack of toughness on McKinnie’s part.

Because Bryant is a big Twitter guy himself, I’m sure he read a lot of the stuff people were calling him. In response to these online catcalls, Bryant has posted a picture of the injured finger, which had to be worked on by a doctor this morning.



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