NFL forgets the Vikings actually made the playoffs this season

In a recent promo video from the NFL, the league featured most of the teams participating in this year’s playoffs except for the Minnesota Vikings and Philadelphia Eagles.

For the second time in the last three seasons, the Minnesota Vikings will be one of 12 teams from around the NFL that gets to participate in the playoffs.

This year, the Vikings will begin the postseason as the No. 6 seed in the NFC and their quest to the Super Bowl will start with a matchup on the road against the 13-3 New Orleans Saints. Minnesota is an 8.5 point underdog in this game, but it wouldn’t be a tremendous surprise if they were able to upset the Saints on Sunday.

Despite the Vikings qualifying for the playoffs back in Week 16, the NFL apparently forgot to include Minnesota in a postseason promotional video they recently released.

Actually, the Vikings are one of two playoff teams that weren’t included in this video. Minnesota and the NFC East champion Philadelphia Eagles were both excluded from this promo made by the NFL.

The league had no problem including the other 10 teams in their video. But finding a clip of the Vikings or Eagles clearly must have been too difficult.

Don’t think that Minnesota just let this fly under their radar either. Vikings head coach Mike Zimmer brought up the video in his presser on Monday and said, “I don’t think anyone believes we can win,” this week in New Orleans.

For anyone who has followed Minnesota closely over the years, for some reason the team tends to do better when their expectations are super low and few give them a chance to succeed. When the pressure is on the Vikings and the expectations are high, this is when the franchise typically falters and fails.

So with them pretty much being counted out of Sunday’s matchup in New Orleans before the game has even begun, will Minnesota use their doubters as motivation and prove everyone wrong, once again, by getting a win?