When you look at it on a stat sheet, a 1-yard touchdown pass from Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers to tight end Richard Rodgers might not look like much.

But then again, you might have been folding paper footballs that day in geometry class when they covered the Pythagorean theorem.

Via Rob Demovsky of ESPN.com, the heave from one side of the field to the back of the end zone of the other traveled 39.4 yards in the air. (And Jason Wilde of ESPN Wisconsin showed his work, and can prove it. #nerds)

Of course, the real losers were the Vikings, who didn’t have a defender within 15 yards of the Packers tight end who caught it.

On a first-and-goal from the Vikings 1, Aaron Rodgers rolled right, to the other sideline. All the Vikings chased him, ignorning the fact Richard Rogers was drifiting alone to the left corner of the end zone.

“You usually don’t have to throw the ball 20 or 30 yards for a 1-yard touchdown,” Packers coach Mike McCarthy said. “I’m sure you guys will measure that out and correct me. But Richard ran a great route on the back side. It’s a delay route. Aaron delayed more than he probably needed to, but it was obviously a great throw.”

Richard said he was open “forever,” so he started waving his arms like on the playground.

“I was just open, no one was really covering me,” he said. “So I was just standing back there waving.”

Aaron had to put a little more muscle on the ball than he anticipated from that down and distance, but the results were geometrically amazing.