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Latest Sports News | Missed field goal gives Seahawks frigid Wild Card win

Minnesota Vikings kicker Blair Walsh missed a 27-yard field objective endeavor with 26 seconds to play to blessing the Seattle Seahawks with a bone-chilling 10-9 NFC Wild Card win in the freezing Twin Cities on Sunday.

Walsh, who had hit on 22, 43 and 47 yard field objectives, looked ready to send a chilled Minnesota swarm home content until he pulled his diversion winning endeavor wide left leaving both groups and a pressed TCF Bank stadium swarm staggered.

"Insane things happen in the playoffs," said Seattle quarterback Russell Wilson. "It was a revolting diversion, we didn't play exceptionally well on offense and that is on me. I assume the fault for that we must be better.

"Yet, we won, we continued fighting. That is the considerable thing about it, you need to continue doing combating in the playoffs, you need to continue doing combating each open door you have. "Barrier was lights out, they made such a variety of huge plays that kept us in the diversion."

As the most reduced remaining seed in the NFC at number six the Seahawks, offering for a third straight appearance in the Super Bowl, will now go to Charlotte one weekend from now for a divisional standoff with the main positioned Carolina Panthers.

The Green Bay Packers will tackle the Washington Redskins later on Sunday to finish off the Wild Card weekend with the victor confronting the Arizona Cardinals.

With the temperature sitting at short 6 Fahrenheit (less 21 Celsius) at kickoff, the diversion was the third-coldest NFL playoff amusement ever and the Arctic like conditions left both offenses working.

Seattle's first ownership finished with punter Jon Ryan not able to handle a low snap and the Vikings assumed control and changed over the miscue into a 22-yard Walsh field objective.

The Vikings based on their preference with 43-and 47-yard field objectives in the second from last quarter before the Seahawks offense at long last warmed up in the fourth.

Russell Wilson hit Doug Baldwin with a three-yard touchdown strike to top a 80-yard drive and hack the Minnesota lead to 9-7. On Minnesota's next ownership catastrophe struck when Adrian Peterson bungled all alone 40 and the Seahawks immediately transformed that into a 46-yard Steven Hauschka field objective and a 10-9 lead that held up after Blair's astonishing miss.