Listen: Vikings announcer Paul Allen's audible disgust at Jalen Reagor's punt fumble
While the last offensive play of the game for Minnesota has been one of the major talking points from the Vikings' disappointing season-ending loss to the Giants, there was another almost catastrophic moment featuring Jalen Reagor.
Reagor failed to call a fair catch as he caught a Giants punt and immediately fumbled as he was tackled. His blushes were saved when a teammate recovered before the Giants could jump on the ball when the score was 24-21, but it was his fifth fumble of the season for the Purple.
And there was nobody more disgusted in U.S. Bank Stadium at that moment than Paul Allen, the Vikings radio announcer on KFAN, whose reaction to the incident is well worth your time.
"Jalen Reagor muffed it where he should have called fair catch, and the Vikings held onto it. That's so freaking unacceptable, that's unbelievable he just did that," Allen said.
Safe to say Paul Allen is not a Jalen Reagor fan. pic.twitter.com/Qro3sR52sr
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"4:12 to go in the 3rd quarter, 24-21 Giants, it's Vikings ball on the KFAN Minnesota Vikings Radio Network, not driven by Jalen Reagor, driven by Polaris," he quipped as he delivered a sponsor shoutout.
Here's the play in question, and it's clear as day he should have called a fair catch with a Giants player bearing down on him, ultimately forcing the fumble.
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The Vikings traded a 2023 7th-round pick and a 2024 conditional 4th-round pick to the Philadelphia Eagles for Reagor, a former 1st round draft pick.
Raised on the Isle of Man, Adam has 15 years experience as a reporter and editor at regional and national level in the U.K. and the U.S. He moved to Minnesota in 2014 and became a writer for Bring Me The News. He is now the co-owner and editor of Bring Me The News and Bring Me The Sports, mixing in some occasional sports writing with his other editorial duties. He lists his three great loves as his family, Liverpool F.C. and baked beans (the British kind).