LAS VEGAS -- Hans Carlson had a choice to make. It was the afternoon of Sept. 18, 2018, and he was at Chicago O’Hare International Airport waiting to see if the Minnesota Vikings-Green Bay Packers game would end before his flight home to Colorado Springs took off.
The game, of course, went to overtime.
“I decided to miss my flight,” he said.
Mixed in with a gaggle of Packers fans in front of a television in Terminal 1, Carlson watched in silence. Each time the Vikings kicker lined up for a field goal -- a 49-yard attempt on the first possession of overtime and then an attempt to win the game with a 35-yarder on the final play -- the same thing happened.