Normally, when a team makes the mistakes that the Los Angeles Chargers made Sunday, that team gets a big fat L slapped on its ledger. Unless, of course, that team happens to be playing the Minnesota Vikings.
Regression has come for Minnesota, and it's come swinging a sledgehammer. One year after the Vikings posted one of the luckiest regular seasons in NFL history, winning 13 games with a total minus-3 point differential and going an astounding 11-0 in one-possession games, the scales are in the midst of rebalancing.
Minnesota lost to the Chargers 28-24 Sunday in a pingpong game that neither team truly deserved to win.