Minneapolis Miracle just doesn’t cut it.



Not for a play that turned the tables on 57 years of heartbreak, disappointment and letdowns in the biggest of moments.



Somehow, it was more than a miracle. It was an exorcism of so much of the bitterness and cynicism that festers in the subconscious of Vikings fans young and old.



It was a cleansing of the sludge that stains the spirit of even the most optimistic of the team’s supporters.



They’ve all been let down before. The grandmothers and grandfathers at U.S. Bank Stadium on Sunday remember the fearsome Purple People Eaters and their four Super Bowl losses in the 1960s and ‘70s.



The mothers and fathers who filed in for the NFC divisional playoff game against the Saints watched Darrin Nelson drop that pass at the goal line in Washington in 1987 or Gary Anderson go wide left in 1998.



Even the sons and daughters have had their innocence tested by Brett Favre’s...