Kirk Cousins has mixed emotions at Great Clips before leaving Las Vegas

Among Kirk Cousins’ likes — besides In-N-Out Burger — are getting his hair cut at Great Clips.

Cousins had an appointment at a Southern Nevada location at the NFL trade deadline, and while covered by a barber cape, ended up being interviewed on the chair shortly after the Las Vegas Raiders traded him to the Minnesota Vikings.

“To the fans in Vegas, I just feel so grateful for how they welcomed you with open arms for the several months I was here,” Cousins said Tuesday. “That includes teammates, the organization. I really couldn’t speak more highly of my time here in Vegas.

“I got a lot of emotions right now that are mixed. It’s always difficult to say goodbye, especially to people that mean a great deal to me. And there are so many of them here in Vegas. There’s also a lot of people waiting for me in Minnesota that mean a great deal to me, that it was difficult to say goodbye to three years ago.”

The Raiders took advantage of an opportunity to acquire a third-round pick from the quarterback-needy Vikings, but not before they met with Cousins.

“Our head coach (Klint Kubiak) called me, and I had a feeling I knew what that meant and went up to his office,” Cousins said. “He and the GM (John Spytek) told me that you know, there’s a possibility of a trade, and things moved pretty fast after that.”

Cousins’ agent, Mike McCartney, told NFL reporter Tom Pelissero that he was thankful for Spytek giving Cousins the chance to decide whether to stay or go. The 38-year-old decided to go back to Minnesota, where he had played for six seasons, and it paved the way for the Raiders to start rookie Fernando Mendoza.

“There are so many memories, so many great people,” Cousins said. “I understand the challenge on the football field. There’s a lot of work to go get done, but it would be really special. If you’re going to go win somewhere and have success, I want it to be in Minnesota.

“In the Cousins family, we try to say we like to do hard things and we try not to shy away from hard things. And this is a difficult thing. It’s a big change for our family. We feel it’s for the best, and so we’re willing to take it on. I wouldn’t be true to what I’d preached to my boys unless I was willing to also be resilient and do hard things.

“To the fans in Minnesota, I’m thrilled to have the chance to come back and hopefully write the ending to a story for me that started eight, nine years ago when I first arrived. I’m ready to take on this new challenge with this really new team in Minnesota and see where we can go.”

Cousins’ family wasn’t done in Las Vegas after the outing at Great Clips, which last year in a marketing campaign presented him with a Hall of Fade VIP Card for free lifetime haircuts there after he had said in Netflix’s “Quarterback” how he exclusively goes there.

His wife, Julie, posted on Instagram video of their son playing baseball.

“1 hour until we leave for Minnesota,” she wrote. “Turner wanted one last at bat in his little league playoff game. We love you, Las Vegas!”