Gut-punching injuries like Cook's not foreign to Vikings...

Gut-punching injuries like Dalvin Cook's not foreign to Vikings, but that doesn't make it easier

Dalvin Cook hobbled into a quiet locker room, a brace on his left knee, a set of crutches in his hands. The team feared the worst but awaited MRI results to know the extent of his injury. The mood was not optimistic.
Curses in sports don’t exist, but bad luck surely does and the Vikings continue to wade neck-deep in miserable luck.
Can anything else go wrong at this point?
Answer: Of course. It’s the Vikings. There’s always something else lurking around the corner.
The organization absorbed another haymaker to the gut Sunday when Cook planted to make a cut and immediately grabbed his left knee, dropping the football in pain.
The Vikings lost a divisional game to the Detroit Lions 14-7 after shooting themselves in the foot over and over with turnovers, miscommunications and sloppy play.
The loss became a sidebar to a larger story: Cook’s health and the concern that another franchise player suffered a serious injury.
Zimmer’s mood was grim afterward, saying the team fears Cook tore his anterior cruciate ligament, which would follow a sobering trend of negative health news.
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