MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — “It’s going to be 48 and drizzly and we’re bringing the purple rain,” Vikings broadcaster Paul Allen exalted after the walk-off touchdown drive.
It was the perfect description to a storybook ending. Allen’s unbridled excitement took fan’s looming despair and launched it into a universe of euphoria.
“You know, up to the final play I just analyzed where everybody was and then Stefon Diggs caught it. The analyst Pete Bercich and yours truly, seriously, went from zero to 100 in a millisecond,” The KFAN radio broadcaster and Vikings play-by-play announcer said.
The Vikings were down to a third and 10 yards to go, 61 yards away from the end zone with only 10 seconds left on the game clock – that’s when Allen’s call ignited the radio airwaves.