What. Just. Happened?
What. Just. Happened?
Let's start this reflection with the man who crossed the goal line: "It's a storybook ending — and it never ends that way. Usually, it's reality. It's real life. Things go, you walk home and worry about tomorrow. But today had other plans. I give it all to God, because things like this just don't happen." — Stefon Diggs.
As Joe Buck called it on Fox:
"Keenum steps into it.
Pass is …
CAUGHT!
DIGGS!
SIDELINE!
TOUCHDOWN!
UNBELIEVABLE!
Vikings win it!"
During Sunday night's peak moments, viewers' Apple Watch devices equipped with heart rate monitoring were sending them alerts. One person wrote on social media: "Apple Watch thinks I'm having a heart attack #SKOL".
U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., tweets, "Best playoff game ever, and I will personally volunteer to shovel Case Keenum's driveway tonight."
"I just ran on the field and threw my helmet. I had to go back and find it." — safety Harrison Smith.
Minnesota Department of Human Services Commissioner Emily Piper usually spends her time trying to help others. Sunday night, according to her Twitter, she was in serious self-help mode:
"If you couldn't handle it w/ 2min left & hid doing laundry does that mean u are on laundry duty next wknd? Asking 4 a friend."
A Deadspin commenter shared this hilarious nugget: "My Fitbit congratulated me for doing sixteen minutes on the elliptical during the game. There's no elliptical in my house."
At Target Center, the Timberwolves were warming up to take on Portland when the touchdown was broadcast on the giant video board over the court. The early arriving fans went nuts, and several players pointed and reacted.
In St. Paul, barely anyone was seated inside the arena for "O Canada" before the Wild's game against Vancouver. A much larger crowd was watching the game on concourse TVs when Diggs scored, unleashing a roar that could be heard around the rink, adding a strange burst of jubilant crowd reaction during our neighbor's national anthem. Later, the "Skol!" chant broke out as the game begun.
"I just dropped my helmet and ran onto the field. Anyone who would hug me, I would hug them. Just tears of happiness and such jubilation between everyone was really cool." — Vikings guard Jeremiah Sirles.
In Mike Zimmer's opinion, practice makes perfect: "I said to one of the guys on the sideline, 'We've been practicing all these situations through OTAs and training camp and even during the season.' We actually practice that one every week."
Let's close with a quote from tight end Kyle Rudolph, who articulated in the locker room the feeling some Vikings fans had the moment they got done screaming: "It's just the beginning. We've still got a lot of work to do. It'd be a shame to let something like that go to waste by us not showing up."
It’s too soon to tell how much the immigration crackdown is to blame.
