Week 17 · 2025–26 season
Vikings
W 23-10 vs Lions · Dec 25, 2025
Misery Index · Content
Vikings fans toasting a Christmas spoiler job over Detroit while quietly admitting Brosmer can't keep starting.
The emotional rollercoaster
Fan misery across the game window. Up is worse.
What happened
A season-sweep of Detroit dressed up an otherwise dreary year, with J.Addison's 65-yard sprint in the fourth essentially sealing it and H.Smith adding another signature interception to the ledger. D.Turner and A.Van Ginkel spent the night living in J.Goff's lap, forcing two fumbles between them. The harder question lingers underneath the celebration: if M.Brosmer's offense can only manage 23 against this version of the Lions, what exactly is being built here?
What fans said
“Fuck tanking. I love watching my team win.”
u/saucysocks3▲ 603joy
“We fuckin on the Vikings bed tonight😈”
u/log28▲ 175joy
“Sweeping the lions is My 12/25”
u/IamAdamThelienAMA▲ 294joy
“Flores is a hell of a coach and that was easily Turners best game as a pro.”
u/Mr-Irrelevant-▲ 398pride
“Harrison Smith is the greatest safety of all time idgaf”
u/problematicboner▲ 171pride
“Holy fuck do I love playing spoiler.”
u/GordonBombay102▲ 84joy
14 more
“I'm sorry, did you SEE the way he handed that ball off to Jordan Addison?”
u/TheTree-43▲ 130joy
“This is my new 12/25 memory. I don’t have to think about that Kamara 6 TD game ever again on Christmas”
u/yukiloho▲ 61joy
“Brian Flores deserves his flowers for devising one heck of a game plan against the Lions tonight and sending them home for the season.”
u/KatoLee111▲ 138pride
“We actually sent them into the playoffs by winning.”
u/Representative-Owl6▲ 37joy
“Brosmer doesn’t deserve to be on a 53 man roster, both of his starts have been some of the worst football I’ve ever seen played by a Minnesota Qb.”
u/JR0359▲ 36rage
“We brought them down with us lmao. Awesome”
u/HurricaneHomer9▲ 50joy
“Tanking is for perpetual losers”
u/Standard_Gap4944▲ 209frustration
“Lions back in the cellar where they belong. Let’s goooo”
u/hjugm▲ 23joy
“He was unironically the best QB on the field today.”
u/TheTree-43▲ 23joy
“I never ever want to hear rhetoric on Max Brosmer being our starting Qb ever again, this kid is horrific”
u/natemore44▲ 15rage
“Merry Christmas everyone. Fuck the Lions. Fuck the Packers. SKOL.”
u/Ninja_Space_Dragon69▲ 14rage
“I would give anything to watch one more game with my dad”
u/DangerMouse_11▲ 20despair
“It’s a shame; this team could have been something but this was probably the worst QB room in football.”
u/IamAdamThelienAMA▲ 50frustration
“All these negative ass mfers in here crying to lose out to move up 1 spot in the draft need to be shamed.”
u/AnthonyBarrHeHe▲ 15rage