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Sam Kean is a writer living in Washington, D.C., who has given up watching pro football. He’s working on a book of essays called I Failed Ethics.
January in Minnesota can be harsh, though rarely more than in 1999, when a Vikings playoff victory slipped away. From his vantage point next to a stack of commemorative newspapers, one man almost saw what could have been.