Wow: Did the New York Giants Really Just Win a Playoff Game?
A proud franchise restores some old luster with a victory in Minnesota. Plus: craziness in Jacksonville and on the goal line in Cincinnati.
Decades from now, mystified scientists will gather to study the NFL’s Minnesota Vikings, to try to figure out what they were all about—if they existed to compete in football, or merely to psychologically torment a population of loyal, long-suffering fans.
Tests will be run; helmets will be carbon-dated; archaeologists and academics will scour the ruins of old Twin Cities stadia. Brainy lab coats will review those regular-season box scores and heartbreaking playoff collapses, the fact that a 13-4 team could be quite statistically terrible, and ask a simple, probing question:
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