Please don't ask Matt Kalil where he wants to be traded. (Vine)
Please don't ask Matt Kalil where he wants to be traded. (Vine)

Vikings left tackle Matt Kalil has had a rough go of it this season, including Sunday's game against the Packers. But not so much so that he'll endure gum-flapping from unhappy hecklers, particularly those wearing fur trapper hats.

That's right, as Kalil was leaving the stadium following the Vikings' loss, he calmly walked over to a group of fans, knocked off the aforementioned trapper hat, picked up his bag and continued on his way to the parking lot, never once removing the phone from his ear.

The man underneath that trapper hat? Rhett Wade, who told ESPN.com's Ben Goessling his side of the story. 

"(W)e just watched Matt Kalil cost us the game, so when he came out I really didn't want to see him, so I said to him ... 'where do you want to be traded?'" Wade explained on Twitter. "And he was on his phone, and when it finally registered with him what I said he turned and then he told me to 'get the f--- outta here' and then i said 'I'd rather have your brother than you on my team.' ... (T)hen he walked away like he didn't hear what I said, but then he turned back around and asked me what I said again and then I repeated what I said again and then he proceeded to grab my hat off my head and throw it on the ground and mumble some stuff."

On Monday, Kalil apologized.

“The whole incident yesterday with the media thing and the fan, obviously a lot of frustration losing a game like that and losing [right tackle] Phil [Loadholt] in the game to injury and stuff like that,” Kalil said, via the StarTribune.com. “Obviously I was a little upset. But hopefully you guys didn’t take anything personally. It was just one of those days, so I apologize for that.”

First-year coach Mike Zimmer also weighed in.

“He was wrong in what he did,” he said. “We appreciate 99.9 percent of the fans, they’re great for us and he should have conducted himself in a better manner. It’s a good lesson for all of us. I know in the past there have been times I’ve been upset with people, too, but they pay money to go watch us play and watch us perform so they have a right to express their opinion. We just have to keep our composure and not let things get out of hand.”