Justin Jefferson knows a thing or two about championship teams. And he currently sees parallels between two of the teams for which he has played.
After Sunday’s come-from-behind, 27-24 win over the Seahawks, Jefferson compared the 2024 Vikings to the 2019 LSU Tigers. The latter won the national championship.
“Not just what we’re doing out there on the field, but the way we carry ourselves, the way we treat each other,” Jefferson said after the game, via Kevin Seifert of ESPN.com. “In 2019, when I won a championship at LSU, it was the same type of vibe. The team is just together, fighting for one another every single game. It definitely feels the same.”
That will be music to the ears of Vikings fans, who have been waiting nearly six decades for a Super Bowl win. It’s also been nearly 50 years since the team’s last Super Bowl appearance. Forget being 0-4 in the Super Bowl; the Vikings have a six-game losing streak in the NFC Championship. They’ve lost the Super Bowl qualification game in 1977 to the Cowboys, 1987 to Washington, 1998 to the Falcons, 2000 to the Giants, 2009 to the Saints, 2017 to the Eagles.
“We’re coming together,” Jefferson added. “Every single game, we’re finding different ways to overcome adversity.”
The Vikings started the season with five straight wins. After narrow losses to the Lions and Rams, they’ve won eight in a row.
They’ve also adopted the mindset of going 1-0 each week. It’s a cliche, in large part because it works. When it takes root.
As it stands now, the Vikings need to go 1-0 twice to nail down the No. 1 seed, for the first time since the magical Randy Moss rookie season of 1998.
