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Big Mac, All Day, & Jumpin’ Monkeys

By Cartman on | From vikingsgab.com

It has been a rough week for us Vikings fans.

Okay, this has been a rough week in a string of roughly 60 of them.

With Adrian Peterson getting hammered by the media, the fans, and fellow players for comparing the NFL’s treatment of players to “modern-day slavery” and cornerback Chris Cook being arrested after his neighbor alleged that he pulled a gun on him, it is perfect timing for a good pick-me-up type of story.

Mark Craig of the Star Tribune comes to our rescue by providing us with a story that should make us proud of both Adrian Peterson and Bryant McKinnie.

Peterson convinced McKinnie to accompany him and a handful of other NFL stars to Africa to support the Starkey Hearing Foundation. The mission is to provide hearing impaired people with hearing aids and a year’s worth of batteries.

22,000 hearing aids to be exact. Distributed in just 24 days.

“You kidding?” McKinnie said when asked if his struggling image was a motivation for making the trip. “To think I’ll be able to give a kid fresh water or be able to sit there and see him hear his mom’s voice for the first time. Who wouldn’t want to do that? Just in general, I think this will be a life-changing experience for all the NFL guys going over.”

For anyone that thinks this is one of those all-for-show type of deals and the players won’t actually be getting down and dirty, just listen to McKinnie describe the preparation process.

“I had no idea what it took just to prepare to go there,” McKinnie said in describing the vaccination process. “I took 10 shots. Eight of them in one day.”

“On the video, they’re talking about monkeys jumping out of trees onto you,” McKinnie said. “So you got to take a rabies shot because maybe a monkey will jump out of a tree and bite you. That’s crazy.”

For the entire article about the very worthy cause that these guys are taking part in, give this a click.