Laces out! Vikings lose after horribly missing 27-yard field goal in the final seconds

Laces out

The laces cost poor Ray Finkle a Super Bowl ring in everybody’s third-favourite Jim Carrey film and tonight — IN REAL LIFE — they cost the Minnesota Vikings a place in the divisional round of the NFC playoffs

Well, maybe

Trailing the Seattle Seahwaks 10-9 with 26 seconds left on the clock, Vikings kicker Blair Walsh faced a 27-yard field goal. Make it and the Vikings would almost certainly win; miss it and their season was done.

For a pro kicker in normal circumstances it would be a chip shot, but under extreme pressure — and in extreme temperatures of around -18°C — it became significantly trickier

On top of all that, when the ball was snapped back to Jeff Locke, he held it with the laces in

(At this point we should mention that Walsh earlier made a 47-yard field goal kicking underneath the laces