The sportsbooks may have had the Minnesota Vikings as underdogs on Sunday night, but other than Lambeau Field, it's hard to imagine what advantages the Green Bay Packers really had. Call it two ships passing in the night, the aging champ succumbing to the young challenger, or whatever artistic conceit you prefer. Though the Packers were one spot ahead of the Vikings in the season-long DVOA rankings headed into Week 17, Minnesota (ninth in weighted DVOA, 14.4%) has clearly been playing better than Green Bay (18th, minus-2.1%) for quite some time.
Of course, this ruins the narrative a bit for the newly crowned NFC North kings.