What is considered by many Vikings fans as one of the best plays the franchise has had in recent memory, is also looked at as one of the worst from the Saints’ perspective.
Bleacher Report recently compiled a list of the 10 worst plays in the NFL this past decade. The outlet put Marcus Williams’ missed tackle on the Minneapolis Miracle as one of the worst plays of the decade.
Here’s what it said about the sequence of events that led to the Vikings moving onto the NFC Championship game:
With the Saints trying to protect a one-point lead, Diggs caught Keenum’s pass at the New Orleans 35-yard line with five seconds remaining. With the Vikes out of timeouts and Williams over the top, all the rookie had to do was position himself to tackle Diggs when he came down off-balance after high-pointing the ball.
But Williams over-committed, missed Diggs entirely and took out teammate Ken Crawley, who might have had a chance to catch Diggs for a game-saving tackle.
The rest is the good kind of history if you’re a Vikings fan and the bad kind if you’re a Saints supporter.
Williams has looked good at safety throughout his NFL career, so hopefully he’ll do something so positive that many people forget he was on the wrong side of the Minneapolis Miracle. Vikings fans will have trouble forgetting, though.