Honestly, I was cheering for the Packers against the Cowboys. I knew we could beat them with a gimpy Aaron Rodgers and an up and down season...they lost to Buffalo a couple of weeks ago for crying out loud! I really did not want to deal with the Cowboys. I just wanted to see them gone. And they were. Bring it on Green Bay!
Of course I have a job that requires me to work weekends. Not a big fan because I miss out on a lot of stuff, but hopefully it's temporary. So I had to work during the game that started at noon. I knew I wasn't going to be able to watch most of it. I really wanted to wear my jersey too but I didn't want to ruin it. I had mom tape the game so I could watch it in its entirety when I got home.
I was in building A and I started in on my rooms. I got through 3 checkouts before I asked for my break. I ate my food and went to finish my rooms. I had such bad anxiety about the game before it even started. I tried to not let it mess up my rooms. By that I mean, forget something or miss wiping off a counter etc. If I had the game on I would have only gotten to watch a little bit of it while I made beds and then I would be in the bathroom where the TV isn't. So I opted to listen to my music while the game was on.
I turned the TV on at halftime just to see what the score was. That was a big mistake. That just gave me more anxiety as the afternoon went on. I worried all day long after that. At about 3ish I heard someone cheer over the walkie talkie and say. finally! We must have scored a TD. A while later I heard Kathy say, "this will be the longest minute of our lives." That must mean, we came back to tie it or we're ahead and we got to keep them from scoring to either win or send it into OT. I really wanted to turn the TV on but I didn't at the same time. So many scenarios were going off in my head on how we got to this point. I kept the TV off for about another 15 minutes or so because I was finishing a room and was almost done. I believed we pulled it off and won the game.
It was the moment of truth. I had to turn the TV on. I had to know what happened. I turned the TV on and of course a commercial. I waited patiently for the commercial to be over and sure enough, we were on the podium with the blue and green sea of confetti with the 12th man cheering as loud as they could. We came back from a huge deficit with only 4 minutes to go in the 4th quarter. This is the game of the century. What an awesome comeback in OT. At this point I didn't know the details on how we came back. I would have to wait until I got home.
When I got home I immediately turned on our game. Mom said that the first 3 quarters weren't all that great. I told her we would watch them anyway. It was ugly. I have never seen the Seahawks play that bad in a while.
Then the 3rd quarter we showed some life.
And we pulled off a "Charlie Brown" field goal attempt. Our field goal kicker, Hauschka had to really sell the fake kick, while our place holder, Ryan grabbed it, ran with it and threw it to a wide open OT Gilliam for our first TD. And then the extra point afterwards. The score was now 16-7.
In the 4th quarter, it went back and forth for a while and Green Bay scored another field goal to lead 19-7. On our next drive, Wilson threw it to Lynch and put some yards behind him but was called out of bounds after a TD. It came back and Wilson put it in for a real TD and a PAT made by Hauschka. Score was now 19-14.
We stopped them again on defense and with a 1:25 left to go Wilson passes it off to Lynch and he snakes his way in and out of the defense and into the end zone for another TD for the Seahawks! We now lead 20-19. The crowd goes nuts! And I can't believe it. We need to go for a 2 point conversion to prevent the win with a field goal on the other end.
Wilson throws this ugly across his body float hail mary pass to Willson for the completion of the 2 point conversion. I was in awe. And our fans started a 3.0 earthquake in the stadium. Score was now 22-19 Now, like Kathy said earlier today, comes the longest minute of our lives. Can we stop them?
They tied it 22-22 in the final seconds of the 4th quarter. Poo.
In OT, we won the coin toss and in six plays, one long throw to Baldwin and the game winning throw to Kearse.
That was the most insane game I have ever watched.
We all will always remember where we were when this game was on. It will be talked about for decades.
"ARE YOU KIDDING ME?" -Steve Raible
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