Upset ends Vikings' season: Arizona rallies with touchdown as time expires
Cards knock Vikings out of playoffs
Arizona 18, Minnesota 17: McCown tosses 27-yarder to Poole
OK, so you started the season 6-0, and then proceeded to mail the rest of the season in. You still have the best offense in the NFL. All you have to do is to go to Phoenix and beat the Arizona Cardinals, who have the WORST defense in the league. Your playoff hopes are on the line, but you control your destiny- win and you're in. No problem, right? Whatever....
I've heard the "on any given Sunday" shtick since I was old enough to know that the NFL didn't mean "Noodles For Lunch?", but what more incentive did Minnesota need? They were ahead 17-6 with two minutes left to the worst team in football, who just happened to be giving their backup quarterback an extended tryout. Until the last few minutes of the game, Josh McCown couldn't have thrown a burning match into a gasoline tanker if he'd been standing on top of it. Now he's a hero. My hat goes off to him and the rest of the Cardinals for not giving up, which, given the season they've had, might have been a forgivable reaction to having to show up for work yesterday afternoon.
What makes this travesty even more difficult to swallow is that Minnesota's collapse for the ages handed their playoff spot to Green Bay- yes, THOSE evil, blood-sucking Packers. Most of the rest of my family are Packer fans, and my father- poor, misguided soul that he is- still flies a Packer flag in his front yard near Sparta, WI.
Oh, the humanity....
