Number seven in the countdown comes from the National Football League over in the US, as we travel back to January 2016 as the Seattle Seahawks take on the Minnesota Vikings in the annual playoffs.
Much like our previous entry, this game was definitely one for the purists, with a real lack of much quality in a game which took place in freezing temperatures. Also similar to our previous entry is that this is the first Seahawks game that I can actually remember watching. It was fascinating, and the game itself was like nothing that I’d ever seen before.
As said above, looking back on the highlights of the game doesn’t really offer that much to look at, however for me it was fantastic. Huge, huge players crashing into each other, fans going absolutely wild and just the fact that it was something totally different.
Indeed, much of the quality in the game came in a crazy three-and-a-half minute spell where the ‘Hawks ran up 10 points thanks to some wonderful improvisation from quarterback Russell Wilson. This firmly cemented the man Wilson threw to, Tyler Lockett as my favourite player in this new found sport, and that remains true today.
In the end, the game actually came down to a minute of horrendous failure on the part of the Vikings’ kicker Blair Walsh (almost certainly more on him later) who (there will be a theme here) missed a somewhat simple kick in his team’s hour of need.
This game was essentially the beginning of the end for my relatively-healthy sleep schedule because, as many of you will know, NFL games kick off at pretty awkward times over here in the UK, and now I will often find myself not sleeping until 5am following Seahawks games. And to think it all stemmed from a game with very little scoring!
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