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Tom compton signs with vikings8/24/2023 It’ll be the first for Cousins and Compton at U.S. “His goal is to make it fun for us when we’re out here in the grind, so we definitely appreciate it,” Compton said.įor now, they’ve kept busy learning a new offense with the next step in that development coming Saturday afternoon in the Vikings’ second preseason game. The main goal of these rabbit hole subjects isn’t necessarily to learn or annoy, but to cut loose during an otherwise hectic part of the football season. “No, I’m staying away from that,” he said. “A lot of times I’m just sitting there like, ‘Yeah, I don’t know that one.’ But it’s fun to see them from afar.”Īs for moon phases, Thielen hasn’t been studying up on the lunar cycles. “They know every quote from every movie,” Thielen said. They often speak to each other using only movie lines, which often goes well above Thielen’s head. “He hasn’t really had a choice.”īut in Thielen’s words, there’s still a long way to go to fully understand the relationship between the lineman vying for a starting job at left guard and the new starting quarterback. “Thielen’s picked up on it having a locker next to us,” Cousins said. Moon appears as a crescent that decreases in size from day to day. Lit portion increases from day to day.Įntire visible portion of moon is lit. Moon appears as a crescent that increases in size from day to day. Moon can’t be seen because it’s between Earth and Sun. So you can keep up with Cousins and Compton: There are eight major phases of the moon as it orbits the Earth. The wide receiver was given a locker at the team’s new practice facility sandwiched between the stalls of Cousins and Compton, hearing first-hand the occasionally strange topics and inside jokes the two share. No one on the Vikings has learned that better than Adam Thielen. It would be pretty hard to articulate how it goes a lot of riffs back and forth, I’ll just say that.” So, we developed our own little sense of humor. We roomed together for two years, my first two years before I got married. “Tom and I have a weird sense of humor and maybe we should put a hidden camera in. “I wonder how in the world Tom acknowledged that to you,” Cousins said when prompted with a question on the subject. There were nights in their apartment when they’d rattle off various facts they learned. Unlike the units of time, Compton can’t remember exactly why they spent so much time studying moon phases, but he’s sure it was a silly task meant to make light of a stressful time. “As camp goes on, there’ll be something we have to expand on to make it fun,” Compton said. To date, the two have been too busy to decide on the latest topic that’s going to occupy their free time to a maddening extent. “Weight issues,” the 315-pound offensive lineman said. There wasn’t a fight over who had top bunk, though, Compton said - a decision settled by default. They made good roommates, both organized people who spent most of their days in the football facility, and saved money by splitting a one-bedroom place where they crammed into bunk beds. Kirk Cousins and Tom Compton’s friendship goes back to the Washington days, where they were roommates for a time. So as coaches yelled at players to focus on this play, on this second, they’d take it a step further. As rookies, they weren’t the focal point of the offense and had time to crack a few jokes to entertain themselves at practice. Like, how can we stretch this out and make it bigger than they want it to be?” Especially if coaches are harping on something. “We just take something and run with it,” Compton said, doing his best to explain how he, to use Cousins’ words, “got big into periods of time.” “We’d do a deep dive on stuff. They became so close that they shared a one-bedroom apartment for two years before Cousins married his wife, Julie. He’s an accurate quarterback who celebrates practice touchdowns as if they’re Super Bowl passes, a ‘You like that?!’ screaming competitor, and, also, a bit of an eccentric guy away from the field.Īs the Vikings get to know their peculiar new quarterback, there’s perhaps no better teammate to ask about him than Compton, the Rosemount native who was teammates with Cousins for four seasons with the Washington Redskins. And so, as Cousins gets acclimated to his new team in preparation of the season opener that’s now less than four weeks away, Cousins’ new teammates have to get acclimated to him, too. And, yes, this really is the Vikings’ new starting quarterback, a man of curiosities beyond the football field and a quirkiness not often found in athletes of his stature. “A megasecond is like 11 days or something like that.Ī megasecond is, indeed, 11.6 days. “And then we got big into periods of time - like a fortnight is two weeks,” Cousins said, the conversation caught on a microphone he was wearing.
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