Watch Vikings get screwed on insane Hail Mary pass interference penalty (Video)

The Minnesota Vikings can’t stay out of their own way, but officials aren’t helping with a questionable pass interference call. 

Everything that can go wrong went wrong for the Minnesota Vikings in the first half of Sunday’s game in Tampa.

After battering the Buccaneers stout run defense, the Vikings have shot themselves in the foot in every conceivable way. Dan Bailey missed two field goals and an extra point, and the Minnesota defense started to crack after holding Tom Brady down for most of the first half.

But the most painful twist of the knife came at the end of the second quarter when officials flagged the Vikings for pass interference on what seemed to be a rather routine Hail Mary attempt.

Nothing about the play seemed out of the ordinary from what we usually see on Hail Mary throws. Yet, the officials threw the flag and Tampa Bay was able to kick a field goal to add to its lead at the time.

The call was par for the course as far as the Vikings first half went, but it was also indicative of the season as a whole. Fans have lost count of the number of times Minnesota has been a call away from having an entirely different season. They barely lost to a Titans team bound for the playoffs, were a running back cut away from beating the Seahawks and should have been dragging the Tom Brady Bucs behind the woodshed after the first half on Sunday.

But instead, the Vikings continue to be on the wrong side of bad breaks and it’s come to define a season that isn’t as lost as it otherwise might appear.