Welcome to the 25 SKOL’s of Christmas!
In a comparable vein to how Freeform hasactually done the 25 days of Christmas, we will appearance back at various minutes in Vikings history to bring a little additional pleasure to you this vacation season.
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It’s that basic. The vacations can be a attempting time for some individuals and we desire to put a smile on individuals’s dealswith by thinkingback about some genuinely jubilant times in Vikings’ history.
On the fourteenth SKOL of Christmas, the Vikings offered to me: The Miracle at the Met.
The present generation of Vikings fans will neverever forget Case Keenum’s 61-yard goal pass to Stefon Diggs as time ended in the 4th quarter that provided the Vikings a 29-24 triumph over the New Orleans Saints in an NFC Divisional playoff videogame on Jan. 14,2018 Dubbed “The Minneapolis Miracle” that ending sentout the Vikings to the NFC title videogame.
Exactly 33 years and one month earlier, another unlikely surface left Vikings fans rocking the erector set that was Met Stadium in Bloomington, Minn. I was amongst those in presence and a month earlier had turned 11 years old. Already in love with sports, the end of this videogame was the veryfirst time I recognized simply how unique a minute of sports pandemonium might be whether young and old.
The temperaturelevel at kickoff on Dec. 14, 1980, was 20 degrees however the wind chill made it feel like11 The Vikings gotin with an 8-6 record and a opportunity to clinch the NFC Central with a triumph. The Browns, who were preferred by 3 points, were 10-4 and required a win to safeandsecure a playoff berth.
The Browns held a 13-0 halftime lead, however quarterback Tommy Kramer’s 31-yard goal pass to tight end Joe Senser early in the 3rd quarter cut Cleveland’s lead to 13-6. The Vikings’ Rick Danmeier, who had missedouton the additional point, traded field objectives with the Browns’ Don Cockroft and a 1-lawn hurrying goal by Cleo Miller in the 4th quarter provided Cleveland a 23-9 lead early in the last quarter.
The Vikings started to rally as Kramer linked with running back Ted Brown on a 7-backyard goal pass with simply over 5 minutes left in the 4th quarter, however Danmeier onceagain missedouton the additional point. (This is verification of simply how far back the Vikings’ kicking problems go.)
This left the Browns up by 8 points — which was 2 ratings duetothefactthat the two-poi