Editing Episode 612 (section)

=== The Fourth Quarter ===
The Vikings were down 12 with under 20 minutes to play. According to Opta Sports, they became the first team in NFL history to be trailing by 12 points with under 20 minutes remaining and win by 17 or more.

Key sequence of events in the comeback:

* Dallas Turner forced a fumble on a sack; Zach Bacobo-Welle recovered and carried it seven yards
* Andrew Van Ginkel sacked Love again on the very next play, forced another fumble, recovered it himself, and nearly returned it for a touchdown before being stopped at the one by Bacobo-Welle — a man who had just earned his carry
* Jordan Mason scored from one yard out — a '''Big Citrus''' goal-line run, notable for being exactly the kind of uncomplicated red-zone play Vikings fans had been requesting
* Harrison Smith tipped a Jordan Love pass intended for a receiver; unaware the tip had been caught, he was frustrated until Josh Metellus informed him James Pierre had intercepted it
* Justin Jefferson scored his second touchdown of the game, matching his total from the entire 2025 season, by stretching the ball across the goal line on a play that did not require the stretch but was funnier with it
* '''Trey Smack''' missed an extra point and then kicked a 59-yard field goal
* The Vikings lined up offside on the field goal, giving the Packers fourth and one
* Jordan Love attempted a quarterback sneak into a gap occupied by a 340-pound defensive tackle ('''Big Citrus'''), having just taken points off the board. He did not convert. The Packers never scored again
* Carson Wentz ran into his own lineman (McLellan, tripped by Carson Wentz, bracing so as not to fall on Carson Wentz), received a roughing the passer call, and the Vikings took a first down under the body-weight rule — '''the very rule the Packers had lobbied the league to implement'''

Aaron Jones scored his first career touchdown against the Packers. Christian Watson had 147 yards including an 81-yard touchdown early in the game, which Arif was required to acknowledge given his stated scepticism. Packers running back situation remained disorganised without Josh Jacobs, who had pled no contest to misdemeanor battery and criminal damage earlier in the week.

The Vikings-linear-Super-Bowl trophy, which had been at risk of ceasing to exist on a Packers win, is confirmed back in Vikings hands. Tracked by '''Alex Schulte''', who has been maintaining the tradition since its invention on the fly using rules neither host fully understands.