CHICAGO — The Vikings had won four straight games at Soldier Field before Sunday. Some of their wins had even come in relatively normal fashion. In other words, they’d tempted fate for too long.
They’d led by 14 points in the second half against the Bears, and then by 11 points with two minutes left. Two major special teams gaffes aided a Bears rally to send the game to overtime.
But the Vikings forced a punt, and they rebounded from a first-down sack that put them at second-and-17 from their own 14. Parker Romo hit a 29-yard field goal to win it 30-27 in overtime and improve the Vikings’ record to 9-2.
It was the fifth straight win in a building that had previously been a house of horrors for them for most of the 21st century. Sunday’s game had moments of calamity for the Vikings — especially when they lost Ivan Pace Jr. to a hamstring injury, left tackle Cam Robinson to a foot injury and saw Sam Darnold hobble off the field for two plays with a foot injury — but they built a 14-point lead, and survived the Bears’ late comeback.
Darnold threw for 90 yards on the Vikings’ field-goal drive to end the game. He finished with 330 yards, the second-most in Vikings history by a quarterback at Soldier Field.