Does Twitter go wild over Packers-Cardinals? Hail yeah!
Saturday night's Cardinals-Packers game sent Twitter into a frenzy of superlatives and emotion with about as wild a finish as you're ever likely to see in the NFL playoffs.
In fact, when Green Bay's Aaron Rodgers connected with Jeff Janis for the tying touchdown as regulation ended on a Hail No Hail Mary, the NFL's official Twitter account became completely discombobulated.
ajgiadjglajdfadipfapojgioadsjfljkdzngfjahjfjadhfahjsjfghajsfhdajfadklfjkalsfjkalsjfkaldjflaksjflkadsjfklasjfklasj #GBvsAZ
— NFL (@NFL) January 17, 2016
After the game, with more time to reflect (and type), tweeters opined on how this contest exemplified the NFL's status as our most compelling sport/entertainment.
Holy ?!!! Wow!!! That was one of the best @nfl playoff game finishes I have EVER seen! Kudos @packers & @AZCardinals #itdidntflip
— Kevin Mawae (@KevinMawae) January 17, 2016
So, was this one of the most metal wins ever?
Great game @AZCardinals!!! Epic win!! #BeRedSeeRed #NFLPlayoffs #Megadeth #Dystopia #NFL
— Megadeth (@Megadeth) January 17, 2016
Meanwhile, from another end of the music world and elsewhere, we had a disgruntled take on the NFL's overtime rules.
There was that foolishness with the coin that wouldn't toss before OT.
.@USTreasury Can you please mint a coin with one side to make an NFL referee's job easier. #GBvsAZ
— nascarcasm (@nascarcasm) January 17, 2016
Which meant that you knew something like this was coming.
#NFL is investigating Tom Brady and the Patriots for deflating the coin before the coin toss. #deflation
— Justin Davis (@justindavis33) January 17, 2016
If that coin flip had happened in #Patriots game, folks would have said it was caused by a super-powered magnet in Belichick's back pocket.
— Dan Daly (@dandalyonsports) January 17, 2016
Speaking of knowing what was coming, the game had one old quarterback feeling a bit of deja vu.
Packers v Cards @ UofP stadium in the playoffs going to OT... Where have I seen that before!!!! #IKnowWhatHappenedLastTime #HistoryRePeat
— Kurt Warner (@kurt13warner) January 17, 2016
Others celebrated the greatness displayed on the field, in particular by Larry Fitzgerald and Rodgers.
@NFL A Hail Mary. Then a Hail Larry !
— Patrick English (@patrickbenglish) January 17, 2016
Kings do king things @LarryFitzgerald
— Tyrann Mathieu (@Mathieu_Era) January 17, 2016
Finally, we have a reminder that, even with this loss, of whom Rodgers gets to go home to.