Dan Bailey's first field goal attempt as a Viking against the Rams in Week 4 didn't go as planned. Yes, he made the kick (albeit it was a bank) and yes, the snapper-to-holder exchange went off without a hitch. However, long-snapper Kevin McDermott got the tip of his pinky jammed in a Rams player's facemask, reportedly tearing part of it off.
You can see him looking at his finger here.
What was McDermott thinking in that moment?
"I was just kind of like, 'Huh. That doesn't look right,'" he said, per the Associated Press.
It very much wasn't right. McDermott, however, wasn't going to be held back. He took the field again before halftime, with emergency longsnapper David Morgan filling in for him in the interim.
McDermott had surgery the next day, but to this day, it appears that McDermott's pinky haunts the Los Angeles Coliseum. Despite the best efforts of Vikings' "specialists" (whatever that means, since it's unlikely the Vikings have pinky-finding specialists), they couldn't find his pinky at halftime, according to Chris Tomasson of the St. Paul Pioneer Press.
Ew.
The Rams play on natural turf, so you've got to think that McDermott's finger is long gone by now. The Rams, however, haven't played at home since that game. If they come back to the Coliseum on Oct. 28 unable to snap the ball on special teams, we may have a cosmic reason why.