Welcome to the Monday edition of The Cooler, where sometimes you can’t even make things up. Let’s get to it:
*An embattled kicker who had endured an up-and-down regular season but emerged with confidence going into the playoffs lined up a potential game-winning kick for a division-winning NFC North team playing at home and locked in a low-scoring battle during wild card weekend.
The kicker had made all three of his field goal attempts in the game leading up to that final attempt, and if he could just make one more his team would escape to the next round.