CHILLY CAN FEEL THE HEAT

Embattled Vikings coach Brad Childress, who has been the continuous target of fan angst and media criticism during an underachieving 2008 season, has claimed that he doesn’t hear the boos from the stands. Apparently, he does read the words of some of the folks who would like to see him join the ranks of the unemployed. Said Childress during his Monday press conference: “I read a great quote the other day. It was author unknown. It read like this: That editorialists and columnists are like men that come down from the mountains after the battle and shoot the wounded. I thought there is a certain something to that.” Really? We shoot the wounded? Or do we shoot the guys who are responsible for getting all those other guys wounded, and worse? Look, Childress can say whatever he wants. It won’t change the fact that he’s the personification of the Peter Principle, and that he has no business being the head coach of an NFL team. The mere fact that he’d see fit to rattle the cages of the folks whose job it is to hold him accountable for his blunders serves only to further confirm our belief that he doesn’t have the temperament to be the guy on whose desk the buck stops. Mr. Wilf? You know what needs to be done. We hope that, whenever your team’s season ends, you’ll move as quickly to do it as you did three years ago, when the Meathead era ended only moments after a win in Week Seventeen.