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Minnesota Vikings: Playoff Victory and Cement-Hard Ball

minnesota vikings: Walsh is the kicker who missed a 27-yard field goal with 22 seconds left that would have sent the Minnesota Vikings to a playoff victory over the Seattle Seahawks last season, according to The Waterloo Record. Ordinarily, Walsh, even if comatose, could make such a kick. He found it in the oddest of places the first-grade class of Northpoint Elementary in Blaine, a Minneapolis suburb. But he didn't. Still, he blew it, and the cries for his head echoed far and wide like the kick . Enter Judie Offerdahl a teacher impressed by Walsh's decency in accepting responsibility. Yes, it was agonizingly cold and the cement-hard ball was not properly placed. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.