Veteran CFL kicker Paul McCallum can sympathize with Vikings’ Walsh

So it seems only fitting that their latest was ripped straight from the plot of “Ace Ventura: Pet Detective“.

There are a few sides to this game, but it all ends with Blair Walsh missing a 27-yard field goal that might have won the Vikings the game, instead sending them into the offseason empty handed, while the Seattle Seahawks probably are still trying to realize how it worked for them. He didn’t point out that he had made three other field goals – of 22, 43 and 47 yards – to account for all of his team’s points during the game, which just happened to be the third coldest in league history.

That said, Seattle (11-6) still found a way to leave a bitterly cold Minnesota with a 10-9 NFC Wild Card victory, thereby punching their ticket to the second round of the playoffs, meaning a date next Sunday on the road yet again with the top-seeded Carolina Panthers. That would have allowed the Seahawks to save their final two timeouts and get the ball back with potentially enough time to score a touchdown of their own.

Surrounded by reporters in the locker room, Walsh refused to put the blame on Locke or long snapper Kevin McDermott.

“It’s my fault”, he said.

“All I know is that we work to do the best that we can to get the situation ideal”, Gostkowski said. I’m the only one who didn’t do his job.

“It’s unfortunate. Personally, I feel really bad for Blair”, New England kicker Stephen Gostkowski said.

Yogi Berra said it best “it ain’t over ’till it’s over”. “Just doesn’t make any sense at all now”. “It’s a chip shot. If they get really cold and become exhausted they will usually regain power if warmed back up, so take 2 or 3 (if not more) batteries out in the field with you and switch them between your camera and a warm pocket and you should be OK”.

In the Ace Ventura comedy, the main villain is a disgraced Miami Dolphins kicker masquerading as a female police lieutenant.

Minnesota played their first outdoor home playoff game since the 1976 NFC Championship when they beat the Los Angeles Rams to advance to Super Bowl XI.

It was during the replay that the audience noticed that the laces of the football were faced in. “When it’s me out there, I’m just focused on what I’ve got to do to put a good kick out there”. “Get him out there practicing and see what that means”.

Russell Wilson hit Doug Baldwin with a three-yard touchdown strike to cap an 80-yard drive and chop the Minnesota lead to 9-7. But by the end of the game, the Vikings had just 183 yards of offense and recorded 14 first downs, converting on just 3-of-13 third down plays.

“We’re not in the position to win the game without (Walsh)”, linebacker Chad Greenway said. He grew up in the Twin Cities playing three years of varsity football in high school.

Still, Zimmer said he can’t help but wonder how far this team could have gone were it not for one kick that went awry.

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