Vikings coach (and former Eagles fan) Kevin O’Connell comes from a ‘long line of Delaware Countians’

Monday night's game is a homecoming of sorts for Minnesota Vikings coach Kevin O’Connell. He grew up a young Eagles fan idolizing Randall Cunningham.

When Kevin O’Connell thinks about Philadelphia, he’s flooded with memories of Veterans Stadium, his grandmother’s cooking, and antagonizing the classmates in his North Jersey grade school.

O’Connell will be wearing purple and gold on Monday, but the memories of arguments about Kelly green have been in the back of his mind this week. His job at the FBI led him to places like North Jersey, Phoenix, Knoxville, Tenn., and California over the last three decades. There are few jobs that challenge the hours that NFL head coaches spend in their office for most of the year, but a high-ranking gig in the FBI might just stack up against Kevin’s time sheet. Kevin, 37, said the experience he and his mother had with his father’s heavy workload helped inform how his family dynamic functions now with young children in the house.

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