{"id":1255,"date":"2016-01-11T07:38:19","date_gmt":"2016-01-10T23:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/11\/blair-walshs-stunning-last-second-miss-melts-the-nfl-internet\/"},"modified":"2016-01-11T07:38:19","modified_gmt":"2016-01-10T23:38:19","slug":"blair-walshs-stunning-last-second-miss-melts-the-nfl-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/11\/blair-walshs-stunning-last-second-miss-melts-the-nfl-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"Blair Walsh's stunning last-second miss melts the NFL Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Blair Walsh was the sports world’s loneliest man on Sunday afternoon<\/p>\n

The Minnesota Vikings kicker missed a last-second field goal that would have beaten the Seattle Seahawks and delivered victory to more than 52,000 home fans who endured historic cold<\/a>. Instead, Walsh lost the game for Minnesota, ended the Vikings’ season and melted the NFL<\/a> Internet<\/p>\n

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See also: ‘Meth Curry’ and the casual cruelty of Internet memes<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Walsh didn’t miss some desperation prayer, either. It was a 27-yard attempt; NFL kickers had converted those with 99 percent accuracy<\/a> so far this season before his nightmare began<\/p>\n

We’ll break down the reaction in a second \u2014 but first, here’s a look at Walsh’s ignominious moment Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n

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Blair Walsh was the sports world’s loneliest man on Sunday afternoon The Minnesota Vikings kicker missed a last-second field goal that would have beaten the Seattle Seahawks and delivered victory to more than 52,000 home fans who endured historic cold. … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[739,836,740],"class_list":["post-1255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-entertainment","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}