Case Keenum
Never Give Up on This Guy!
The Ballad of The Minnesota Miracle
By Bill McCurdy
The outlook wasn’t brilliant for the Vikings team that day;
the score found them down by two, with ten seconds left to play;
and then Case Keenum took the ball, and heaved it down the field;
and Stefon Diggs ran after it, as sanity surrealled.
Struggling fans were done and gone, departed in despair;
the rest clung hard to a last slim hope – for joy to fill the air;
as Diggs veered toward the right sideline, two Saints upon his tail,
the ball came down from heaven – by Case Keenum Special Mail.
What started at the Vikes’ 39 – was caught at the Saints’ 33;
No Saints made the tackle, and Diggs just waltzed home free.
The game was won by the miracle spun, and the joy went on for a week;
Then a Green Grinch next in Philly – slapped the brief joy flat-out silly,
And now we’re flashed back fast to why – losing’s the reason fans do cry.
Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright;
the band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light,
and somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout;
but there is no joy in Minneville — mighty Case K has struck out.
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Bill McCurdy
Principal Writer, Editor, Publisher
The Pecan Park Eagle
The Pecan Park Eagle 
January 23, 2018 at 4:59 pm |
I was hoping they would make the Super Bowl 🙂
January 24, 2018 at 2:08 am |
Minnesota has won the same number of Super Bowls as Houston has, and Houston has never been there, while Minnesota had 4 cracks at it.