MINNEAPOLIS — Bring It Home is the Minnesota Vikings’ chosen theme for their 2018 playoff run, a cute play on words because they are hoping to become the first team to ever play the Super Bowl on its home field, which is scheduled for Feb. 4 at U.S. Bank Stadium.

Thanks to the Miracle in Minneapolis, they still have a chance to do so after their 29-24 victory Sunday over the New Orleans Saints that will forever rank among the most shocking endings in NFL history.

Down by a point with just 10 seconds remaining and the ball on their own 39-yard line after watching Drew Brees stage one of his patented comebacks, journeyman quarterback Case Keenum floated a pass in Stefon Diggs’ direction. Diggs caught the ball at the New Orleans 34-yard line with a couple seconds left and Vikings coach Mike Zimmer admitted that he wanted his receiver to get out of bounds in order to give Kai Forbath a chance to kick a game-winning field goal.

Instead Saints safety Marcus Williams whiffed on the tackle, which allowed Diggs to run into the end zone.

Pandemonium ensued at U.S. Bank Field, where the Super Bowl will be played in three weeks.

This miracle actually had a divine name.

“Buffalo right, seventh heaven,” said Pat Shurmur, the Vikings offensive coordinator.

Brees, making the 13th playoff start of his career, completed just one of his six passes for 3 yards and threw an interception in the opening quarter while Keenum and the Vikings scored on each of their first two possessions to build a 10-0 lead.

Keenum, making his first playoff start, was hot early, completing six of his first nine throws while the running tandem of Latavius Murray and Jerick McKinnon picked up huge chunks of yardage on the ground.

McKinnon scored Minnesota’s first touchdown on the Vikings’ opening possession, going 14 yards on a misdirection play. The Saints handed the Vikings three points on their next possession, thanks to two pass-interference penalties on cornerback Ken Crawley, including a highly questionable 34-yarder that gave Minnesota a first down on the New Orleans 6.

When the Vikings finished a 12-play, 58-yard drive with a 1-yard touchdown run by Murray on their first possession of the second half, it appeared as if the Saints would head back to New Orleans without offering much resistance.

Brees and a much-improved Saints defense would not go down quietly, however.

A sack by the Saints’ Sheldon Rankins pushed the Vikings out of field-goal range on Minnesota’s first possession of the second half, and Brees responded by taking the Saints on their first scoring drive of the game.

It came shortly after a controversial play in which Saints receiver Michael Thomas ran into Andrew Sendejo, knocking out the Vikings safety with an apparent concussion. The play initially drew a flag, but after further consultation among the officials it was decided there was no penalty. Thomas, the Saints’ leading receiver, scored on the next play and was showered with boos.

Keenum’s worst moment of the game immediately followed when, under pressure from Cameron Jordan, he threw a ball up for grabs. It landed in the arms of the Saints’ Williams, who returned the interception to the Vikings 30.

Thomas scored again on a 3-yard touchdown throw by Brees early in the fourth quarter and the game was on.

Minnesota pushed its lead to six with Forbath’s 49-yard field goal early in the final quarter, but a tipped punt by George Johnson set up New Orleans at the Minnesota 40-yard line and Brees needed just four plays to find Alvin Kamara for a 14-yard touchdown that gave the Saints a 21-20 lead.

The Vikings countered with a 53-yard Forbath field goal with 1:29 left, but Brees calmly took the Saints from their own 25 to the Minnesota 24, setting up a 43-yard field goal by Wil Lutz with just 25 seconds remaining.

Minnesota had one timeout left, and what little hope it had became even less when the drive started with a false-start penalty. But then Keenum,who completed 25 of 40 passes for 318 yards, found Diggs for a 19-yard completion in the middle of the field. The Vikings used their final timeout.

Two incomplete passes later, Shurmur sent in the play that will forever be remembered around here: “Buffalo right, seventh heaven.

“(Keenum) said as I was about to leave (the huddle), ‘I’m going to give somebody a chance,’ ” Diggs said. “I was hoping it was me.”