Five reasons the Minnesota Vikings will win Super Bowl 50

Even with the NFC’s hardest path, the Minnesota Vikings can still win Super Bowl 50.

It must have been sweet, sweet revenge for Mike Zimmer’s Minnesota Vikings to go into Lambeau Field for the final game of the regular season on Sunday night and wrestle the NFC North crown away from the rival Packers. Green Bay had dominated their peers of late, winning the last four division titles in a row before 2015’s changing of the guard.

Kudos to the Norsemen for taking down their bully to the east. However, they might have actually done themselves a disservice by toppling the Cheeseheads, as their reward for earning the No. 3 seed is having the hardest potential road to the Super Bowl in their conference.

While the Packers now draw the 9-7 Redskins, the Vikings have to host the red-hot Seattle Seahawks, a team that throttled them in Minneapolis by a score of 38-7 only a short month ago. The Seahawks are probably the scariest and most battle-tested team in the conference when it comes to the playoffs, and they’re peaking at just the right time (plus rumor has it Marshawn Lynch will return this weekend).

If the Vikings manage to find a way to prevail this Sunday, they’ll then travel to Arizona for another regular season rematch, this time with the No. 2 Cardinals — a team many analysts think could represent the conference in Santa Clara. Assuming Minnesota could pull off that upset, they’d still probably have to beat the top-ranked team in the NFL, the Carolina Panthers, in the NFC Championship Game on the road.

That’s a ridiculously difficult path to the big game, but there are still five great reasons why the Vikings could pull it off and win Super Bowl 50.

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