We interrupt our planned blog entry to bring you breaking news.....
As background, six years ago, I posted this account of what it's like to be a Minnesota Vikings football fan, and listed my Top 5 most brutal Vikings losses of all-time. I now can add a new one that I'll label as 'tied for fifth':
T-5. 2016 Wild-Card playoff game at home versus the Seattle Seahawks. In the third-coldest game at kickoff in NFL history, in a game the Vikings were not favored to win (mostly based on a big regular-season loss at home to the same team a month earlier), Minnesota trails 10-9 with under 30 seconds to go. However, they've made a last minute drive deep into Seattle territory, and line up for a likely game-winning field goal of just 27 yards. Their fine placekicker, Blair Walsh, had already kicked three other field goals in the difficult conditions, so as long as the snap and hold were good, this was going to be a big win.....and he shanked the kick way left.
There are those that would put this higher on my list (or theirs), but given the stakes of a Wild Card game versus a championship game, given they weren't favored to win anyway, and given that they'd still have to win two more playoff games (at least one and probably both on the road), I don't currently rate it higher. If this young Vikings team goes no farther in the next couple of years, I could see it rising in my rankings.
Either way, brutal.
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