The Minnesota Vikings had a few decades of payback to heap on the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday, so that’s what the poster child for Super Bowl futility did -- by going for it on fourth down and scoring a meaningless touchdown in the fourth quarter -- on their way to Sunday’s 34-3 beat down of America’s Team.

“I’d like you to say it with me,” a Vikings fan said afterward, “Drew Pearson pushed off, and we finally got payback for the Herschel Walker trade.”

Dallas fans though can take solace that they have been through more Super Bowl championships -- five -- than the Vikings have Super Bowl losses -- 4.

Vikings fans practically have to be Brett Favre’s age, 40, to remember the 1975 playoff game the Cowboys won in Minnesota after Pearson’s touchdown catch of a Roger Staubach pass.

But still, a season that held such promise for Cowboys fans ended in an almost predictable fashion, Romo choked, turning the football over three times in a playoff game, and Jason “Red Jesus” Garrett couldn’t make adjustments to allow the Cowboys to put any of their first three possessions in the end zone.