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After winning two tickets through work, Megan Mullen was pumped to bring her dad Scott - a die-hard Vikings fan - to Sunday's playoff game.
"Oh I was ecstatic, because he was the first one I thought of," she said.
But Megan has grown up with her dad telling her the Vikes never seem to win when he's in the building.
"He's convinced he's the human jinx," she said.
One loss in particular he can't let go of is the NFC Championship game against the Falcons in January 1999.
"I still think about it," Scott said.
So when the Vikings began to melt down Sunday, so did Scott.
"And he was just getting so, so sad. Because he was like, 'This game, I was at this '98 game. And the exact same thing happened," Megan said.
"I can't take it. I can't take it. I gotta go," Scott said.
"He was like, 'I gotta leave. He was like, I can't take this anymore. And I'm not going to go through that again,'" Megan said.
So they left, and after a short Uber, the Mullens actually made it to a TV set in time for the Minneapolis Miracle.
"When I saw that on TV, I was like, 'Why did we leave?'" Megan said.
Scott ran outside and made snow angels, exorcising demons, he said.
They're catching grief from around the country after a Yahoo reporter featured their story.
"Oh yeah, everyone's giving me a hard time, saying, 'How could you leave?'" Megan said.
But Megan's not mad. And Scott?
"I would do it again. If it happened again, I would do it again," he said.
Maybe all it took was getting the human jinx out of the building.