MINNEAPOLIS - As Vikings kicker Blair Walsh lined up a 27-yard field goal that would have given his team a two-point lead with just over 20 seconds to play, Seahawks kicker Steven Hauschka had his sights set the opposite direction.

"I wasn't watching it," Hauschka said from his locker postgame at University of Minnesota's TCF Bank Stadium. "I was actually in the kicking net trying to get ready for mine. I thought I was going to have a shot to win it at the other end."

As it turned out, Hauschka's shot never came. Walsh's kick sailed wide left and the Seahawks took possession. Quarterback Russell Wilson took a knee on the very next play to run out the clock for a 10-9 victory that sent Seattle into next weekend's divisional round against the Carolina Panthers.

"Every kicker, if they play long enough, has something like that, and it sucks," Hauschka said of Walsh, who hit from 22, 43, and 47 yards out before his miss. "I can't imagine what it's like for the season to end like that, so I mean some of it was out of his control and I'll have to watch the play to see what actually happened, but I mean he was one of their best players out there today and it's tough, tough. I feel for him a lot.

"I'm excited we won as a team, but it's kind of a sick feeling too that you have when you see something like that happen."

Walsh's field goal miss capped what was an irregular day of kicking, punting, throwing, catching, and carrying the football thanks large in part to the minus-6 degree temperature that was recorded just prior to game-time.

The climate represented the third-coldest playoff game in NFL history and one that Hauschka said made it feel like he was "kicking a flat ball all day," noting how in zero-degree weather the air pressure in a football can drop from the standard 12.5 pounds per square inch (PSI) to "8.5-9 PSI."