New Vikings Head Coach...Mike Zimmer

[OAKAS]

The Minnesota Vikings will hire Mike Zimmer as their head coach, a league source told ESPN.

Zimmer, who has spent the last five seasons as the Cincinnati Bengals' defensive coordinator, and the Vikings had been in negotiations in an effort to complete a deal Wednesday, according to league sources.

Zimmer remained overnight after his second interview Tuesday was finished, with Vikings owner Zygi Wilf more centrally involved in the session, sources told ESPN.

Wilf himself has made calls to selective references on Zimmer and has come away satisfied to give a green light on hiring the defensive coordinator to succeed Leslie Frazier as Minnesota's next coach.

Parameters on a contract were in place, but negotiations between the Vikings and Zimmer's agent, Marvin Demoff, gained momentum toward completion, league sources told ESPN

 

[Defying]

like Zimmer alot... not the best situation for him though, thought Det was the perfect fit... Vikings defensive players are either young and bad or good and aging.

 

[Fishhead]

Any relation to Don?

 

[slapshot]

Bengals fans through a party when Gruden left @)

now the party has ended with Zimmers departure hno:

 

[5teamparlay]

Any relation to Don?

Happy 83rd Don!!!


January 17 – Happy Birthday Don Zimmer
Over half a century has passed since “Popeye” was being groomed to replace the great Pee Wee Reese as the Brooklyn Dodger starting shortstop. That never happened. A terrible beaning Zimmer suffered as a minor leaguer in the Dodger organization left him unconscious for three weeks and resulted in a metal plate being inserted in his head. The incident left him a different player. He still had the shotgun arm his teammates raved about but he would never become a productive big league hitter. He played three part-time seasons in Brooklyn and two more in LA before he was dealt to the Cubs after the 1959 season. He got quite a few at bats in Chicago but never got his batting average above the .250′s and the Mets drafted him in the NL expansion draft of 1961. Zimmer lasted only 14 games with the Amazins and retired as a player in 1965. He then began the most successful part of his Major League baseball career.


He got his first big league managerial assignment with the Padres, replacing Preston Gomez twenty games into the 1972 season. The Padres lost 190 games during Zim’s almost two season tenure, which lost him that job. During the 1976 season, he was named the Red Sox Manager, replacing Darryl Johnson. The four and a half seasons he spent calling the on-the-field shots in Fenway were the most successful of his career. He will probably be most remembered in Beantown for his team’s failure to hold that big lead they had over the hated Yankees in 1978. But his Boston teams had five winning seasons and his career record as Red Sox skipper was 411-304. He was replaced at the end of the 1980 season with his team in fifth place in the AL East, by Johnny Pesky. Zimmer then got managing jobs for the Rangers and the Cubs. In 1996, he became the fiery bench coach for Joe Torre’s four-time World Champion Yankees. His most famous moment in pinstripes came when he went after then Red Sox ace, Pedro Martinez in the third game of the 2003 American League championship series, after the teams exchanged brush-back pitches.


Zim left the Yankees, livid at George Steinbrenner’s treatment of Yankee manager Joe Torre and his fellow Yankee coaches. I enjoyed his colorful behavior both on and off the field.

 

[viking611]

No, but he's an ISU Redbird like me and 5teamparlay

 

[5teamparlay]

No, but he's an ISU Redbird like me and 5teamparlay

Wow ok and congrats on the win,,

 

[VIEJODINOSAUR]

No, but he's an ISU Redbird like me and 5teamparlay

Well....you hit the lottery.....