Worth It: Fan Tears Achilles Tendon Celebrating Vikings Win
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) -- Vikings fans are still on a Minneapolis Miracle high reliving those final 10 seconds which wiped away decades of agonizing big game finishes.
While many fans flocked to the Vikings gear stores, we found one fan nursing a significant injury he suffered while celebrating with his eight kids in their family room.
Managers at the Vikings locker room at Mall of America say there were 50 people in line when the store opened. Lifelong Vikings fan Jeff Shaffer flew in from L.A.
"I was at the game, yeah. It was fantastic. I don't have a voice left," he said. "I only waited, what, 46 years to see it happen, but it was good."
The best-selling jersey: Stefon Diggs. Case Keenum's was already sold out.
Morgan and Karen Anders from Arizona were also at the game.
"Speechless. I cried," Karen said.
It was a 50th birthday bucket list trip.
"I have never, ever experienced something so magical," Karen said.
In Ham Lake Brendan Koop watched the dizzying final seconds with his wife and eight young children.
"We started screaming and screaming and then Dad's just like, 'Oh, something happened to my foot,'" 12-year-old Eleanor Koop said.
"We were all jumping up and down and as that happened it felt like a bowling ball landed on the back of my left leg," Brendan Koop said.
"And Mom's like, 'Well, are you OK?' and he's like, 'Yeah, yeah I am fine,'" Eleanor said.
"All I cared about at the moment was whether he stepped out of bounds and whether there was any flags," Brendan said.
Brendan tore his Achilles tendon, and may need surgery. WCCO asked if it was worth it to rupture his Achilles tendon.
"Yes, I would do it again to make sure that they had that play," Brendan said.
As it turns out, Brendan's father Dr. Steven Koop is a well-known local orthopedic surgeon who told Brendan he had to go in and get his injury looked at.
But Brendan says he couldn't pull himself away from the TV Sunday night looking at the replays and celebrating. He went to the doctor Monday morning.
