After the Washington Commanders won their first playoff game since January 2006 on a last-second field goal, NFL fans all said the same thing about the Wild Card round victory – doink!
The Commanders bested the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on the road 23-20, on a Zane Gonzalez field goal as time expired, with the kick hitting the upright and bouncing through the goalposts for the game-winning trio of points.
Washington’s 19-year wait for a postseason win, and all the troubles the team had faced since that 2006 victory, also on the road against the Buccaneers, came down to a matter of inches.
And the kick hitting the upright on the way through the goal posts counts all the same and many NFL fans thought it was the perfect ending to the thrilling contest.
‘Script writers loving the doink this year,’ one NFL fan said.
‘Sometimes it better to be lucky than good! Wow!’ another person stated.
Jayden Daniels and the Washington Commanders won their first playoff game since 2006
Gonzalez’s last-second field goal hit the upright and it was the lasting memory from the game
‘Doinkin their way to the divisional!’ an NFL fan added.
‘The doink giveth and the doink taketh,’ another football fan said about the game-winning play.
‘One yard back and it’s a miss, crazy game,’ one fan said about the jarring end.
‘The Doink for Detroit, if you will,’ said another fan in reference to Washington’s first playoff win since 2006, which sets up a divisional round showdown against the Detroit Lions next weekend.
‘The Washington Post!!!’ one person said, using a reference to the daily newspaper in the nation’s capital to make a pun.
‘Democracy dies in doinkness,’ another fan said with a reference to the Washington Post’s catch phrase.
‘That doink bounces out if Dan Snyder still owns the team,’ another person pointed about about the Commanders’ recent troubles.
‘THE DOINK-STRICT OF COLUMBIA,’ one person concluded.
A collection of social-media messages talking about Gonzalez’s doink to win it for Washington
The Commanders were the first road team to win during Wild Card weekend, with the first four teams to not win their division to play all losing.
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Washington will attempt to make its first NFC Championship Game since the 1991 season next Saturday when they travel to face the Detroit Lions.
The Lions went 15-2 in the regular season and made last year’s NFC Championship Game.
The final spot in the Divisional round will be claimed on Monday night by either the Minnesota Vikings or the Los Angeles Rams.
Jayden Daniels was clutch again for the Commanders, with a fourth-quarter, fourth-down touchdown pass to Terry McLaurin for a go-ahead score, putting pressure on Tampa Bay to respond.
Two costly fundamental plays led to a Buccaneers turnover and settling for the game-tying field goal, ultimately, costing them their season.