Minnesota Vikings: Third coldest ever game makes National Football League history
So it seems only fitting that their latest was ripped straight from the plot of “Ace Ventura: Pet Detective”.
Blair Walsh is the face of the Minnesota Vikings’ playoff failure, but he shouldn’t be in the picture alone. Walsh disappointedly missed the go-ahead kick with under 30 seconds remaining in the game.
Although it wasn’t the most hard kick, the Minnesota Vikings relied too much on the leg of Walsh.
Walsh said, “It’s all the same”. That’s one of those times where I should have just put a double arm wrap [on the ball].
Yet Walsh reverted all blame to himself and said both Locke and snapper Kevin McDermott “did [their] job”. I’m the only one who didn’t do my job. “When you have that going for you then you are able to believe that we can overcome anything as a team”. “The opportunities we had out there today ” it makes you ill”.
“Grilled a few burgers, had a few drinks, a little ‘antifreeze, ‘ ” he said. “We missed a chip shot field goal, so that’s life”. “He’s got to make it”.
In the Ace Ventura comedy, the main villain is a disgraced Miami Dolphins kicker masquerading as a female police lieutenant.
Russell Wilson and the Seahawks needed more than three quarters to warm up at Minnesota, their quest to avenge last year’s Super Bowl loss almost frozen before it began.
“It was all good until my eyelashes froze”, said Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman. “I kind of knew right away”.
“I’m telling you, sometimes that can psychologically get a kicker”, NBC color analyst Cris Collinsworth said of the laces while watching a replay.
Walsh was far from the only goat.
That put the Seahawks up 9-6.
The trip to the end zone was set up by Wilson recovering a botched snap, avoiding the incoming rush and connecting with Tyler Lockett for 35 yards two plays earlier in a moment of sheer elusiveness and improvisation. The back-to-back losses to end the season forced the Packers to a WildCard spot, where they will now have to do their work on the road during the 2016 playoffs. Romo actually picked up the ball and nearly ran it in for a touchdown but was caught at the last second. “He was just threading them all game”.
“We don’t speak of that as Vikings fans”, Garret Duncan said.
Temperatures fell to -21 degrees Celsius (-31 wind chill) before kickoff at TCF Bank Stadium, home of the University of Minnesota football team, as the Vikings await the completion of their new home – the US Bank Stadium – which is slated to open mid-year.
But even after all of that, Seattle still had to stop Teddy Bridgewater and the Vikings offense on three drives before the game was over. Peterson had trouble all game, carrying the ball 23 times for only 45 yards.