Latest Vikings News
Recent Vikings blog posts
Latest Sports News
Home | Sports | Access Vikings
Vikings coach Brad Childress dresses up for road trip
Print this story
E-mail this story
Save to del.icio.us
Share on Facebook
Share on Digg
Photos of Vikings coach Brad Childress dressed up as a female flight attendant during a recent team flight were posted today by one of his players on Twitter. And yes, photos are making the rounds on the Internet.
Given the viral treatment this afternoon on the prominent Sportsbybrooks.com blog, the pictures posted by tight end Visanthe Shiancoe show the bearded coach in a black wig, pink apron and pearls around his neck.
"Coach is a trip," reads the Twitter caption under one of the photos. "He dressed up ... on the road trip. I wouldn't want to run across him (her) at a bar! That's [offensive lineman Steve] Hutchinson in the pic looking at him ..."
The view tally on Twitter for the two images is already in the thousands.
ESPN's Rachel Nichols wrote on her Twitter page on Sunday that "Childress wore lipstick, a wig, blue nylons -- the message: 'it's just a game; have fun.' Players loved it." Nichols, however, did not include pictures.
Sportsbybrooks said the coach's gender-bending getup was donned on the team's "most recent" flight. The Vikings were in Pittsburgh on Sunday.
Paul Walsh • 612-673-4482
Recent Access Vikings stories
Dueling QBs: Brees vs. Manning - October 30, 2009
| Date/Opponent | Time | W | L | Score |
| Sep 13 - at Cleveland | 12:00 PM | 1 | 0 | 34-20 |
| Sep 20 - at Detroit | 12:00 PM | 2 | 0 | 27-13 |
| Sep 27 - vs. San Francisco | 12:00 PM | 3 | 0 | 27-24 |
| Oct 5 - vs. Green Bay | 7:30 PM | 4 | 0 | 30-23 |
| Oct 11 - at St. Louis | 12:00 PM | 5 | 0 | 38-10 |
| Oct 18 - vs. Baltimore | 12:00 PM | 6 | 0 | 33-31 |
| Oct 25 - at Pittsburgh | 12:00 PM | 6 | 1 | 17-27 |
| Nov 1 - at Green Bay | 3:15 PM | 7 | 1 | 38-26 |
| Open | ||||
| Nov 15 - vs. Detroit | 12:00 PM | 8 | 1 | 27-10 |
| Nov 22 - vs. Seattle | 12:00 PM | 9 | 1 | 35-9 |
| Nov 29 - vs. Chicago | 3:15 PM | 10 | 1 | 36-10 |
| Dec 6 - at Arizona | 7:20 PM | 10 | 2 | 17-30 |
| Dec 13 - vs. Cincinnati | 12:00 PM | 11 | 2 | 30-10 |
| Dec 20 - at Carolina | 7:20 PM | 11 | 3 | 7-26 |
| Dec 28 - at Chicago | 7:30 PM | 11 | 4 | 30-36 |
| Jan 3 - vs. NY Giants | 12:00 PM | 12 | 4 | 44-7 |
Comment on this story | Read all 20 comments | Hide reader comments