Minnesota Vikings week 17 playoff seeding scenarios

The Minnesota Vikings decisive win over the Giants on Sunday Night Football earned the team a 2015 NFL playoff berth for the first time in three seasons.

Many members of the media were saying that the Sunday Night Football contest between the Minnesota Vikings and the New York Giants was a meaningless game. Even respected breaking-news media member Adam Schefter tweeted that it meant nothing and then later deleted the tweet after being hounded by Vikings fans about how a win would propel the Vikings into the playoffs.

The Giants were eliminated from the playoffs earlier that day when the Philadelphia Eagles were unable to beat the Washington Redskins, so the interest in regards to the NFC…