The reclamation of Tarvaris Jackson continued Sunday at the Metrodome with the resilient quarterback using his finest performance of a trying season to lead the Vikings into the NFL playoffs.
Vikings owner Zygi Wilf sprinted onto the field in jubilation after Ryan Longwell's game-winning field goal, and other staffers hugged and celebrated the team's first division championship since 2000.
Ryan Longwell booted his 20th career game-winning field goal to lift the Vikings to a 20-19 victory over the Giants, and the Eagles needed three more things: a win over Dallas, a Bears loss in Houston, and a chartered plane to the frozen tundra of Minneso
Brian Dawkins dropped to the turf, after his second strip of a Dallas Cowboy in two drives resulted in a second successive fumble return for an Eagles touchdown, and a third-quarter lead big enough to stretch from South Philly to Minnesota.
This is the third year that Peggy Cacciabeve's fifth-grade class at Cheney Elementary in East Orlando has competed in the Beat Jerry contest as a math and Americana project.