Kicker Blair Walsh is most famous for one thing — shanking a 27-yard field goal attempt that cost the Minnesota Vikings a playoff game against the Seattle Seahawks. The Vikings cut him the next year and he signed with the Seahawks this past offseason.
Blair Walsh points at Vikings bench after making field goals for Seahawks
Shading your old team’s bench in a preseason game after your former teammates taunt you is the most preseason thing.
With the two teams facing off in the preseason Friday night, it seemed inevitable that Walsh would take some shots at his former team. Sure enough, he pointed straight at the Vikings’ bench after making a 52-yard field goal in the third quarter.
Walsh did it a second time after making another 52-yarder. This time, teammate Richard Sherman joined him in the shading, livening up an otherwise uneventful second half of an exhibition game.
After the game, Walsh said his former Vikings teammates had been mocking him.
“I simply was just responding to getting taunted,” Walsh said, via ESPN’s Sheil Kapadia. “I didn’t say anything. When you’ve got guys who were your teammates for five years yelling at you when you’re trying to kick, it’s just odd. And I hope they were in jest. And I hope they didn’t mean it because I didn’t mean anything with mine, but it was definitely not out of nowhere.”
Seahawks coach Pete Carroll didn’t mind.
“They were giving him a hard time. They were razzing him a little bit and all that,” Carroll told Kapadia. “He was just having a little fun with it. He’s a really good competitor. I like his mentality, and I think we are very fortunate to have him.”
Preseason football, y’all.
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