SEATTLE – Seattle’s notoriously raucous home stadium was so quiet, you could hear another Seahawks star fall.

Chester Taylor ran for a career-high 169 yards on 26 carries – including a pivotal, 95-yard touchdown, the longest run in Minnesota history – as the Vikings stunned the battered Seahawks 31-13 on Sunday to end Seattle’s team-record 12-game home winning streak.

Already without league MVP Shaun Alexander, Seattle lost Pro Bowl quarterback Matt Hasselbeck to a right knee strain early in the second half. So ended an NFL afternoon in which both Super Bowl quarterbacks from last season went out with injuries and did not return.

The Vikings (4-2) won their second straight thanks to a 15-yard halfback option pass from Mewelde Moore to tight end Jermaine Wiggins that broke a 10-10 tie in the third quarter. That was followed by Taylor’s record romp.

Seattle (4-2) lost at home for the first time since Dec. 6, 2004, against Dallas.

Seneca Wallace, a fourth-year veteran who has never started an NFL game, replaced Hasselbeck and was 14-for-25 for 134 yards passing and two interceptions. Hasselbeck was 7-for-17 for 127 yards and a touchdown.

A tie game and Seattle’s immediate future changed on the third play of the second half.

E.J. Henderson got past a block from fullback Mack Strong and then swung the left side of his torso into Hasselbeck’s lower right leg, which was planted after he had just thrown an incomplete pass. Hasselbeck crumpled to the ground immediately, rolled over and then tried to get up.

When he could not put weight on the leg to stand, he fell again and angrily pounded the turf while trainers rushed to his side.

Hasselbeck was taken to the sidelines with his weight on the shoulders of two trainers. Soon, he was walking gingerly into the locker room behind Alexander, who was wearing a team sweat suit while missing his third consecutive game because of a broken foot.

On the drive after Hasselbeck left, Minnesota’s Brad Johnson found Marcus Robinson for 28 yards and Richard Owns for 15 more on the drive to get to the Seattle 7. A holding penalty led to a 3rd-and-goal from the 15.

Johnson then handed to Moore, who ran right as if on a sweep. Moore stopped to loft a pass into the outstretched hands of Wiggins, who had slipped behind Ken Hamlin and Michael Boulware for a 15-yard touchdown.

The Vikings’ Cedric Griffin intercepted Wallace’s second pass, but Minnesota failed to convert it into points when Ryan Longwell missed a 46-yard field goal.

But they converted in a huge, record-setting way after getting pinned at their own 5 by a punt. Taylor ran behind blocks of Bryant McKinnie and former Seahawk Steve Hutchinson, then bounced outside into open space and through a Lofa Tatupu arm tackle. Taylor outran Boulware the final 50 yards of a 95-yard touchdown.

The longest run in Vikings history gave Minnesota a 24-10 lead with five minutes left in the third quarter.

It was also the longest run the Seahawks have ever allowed, topping the famous, 91-yard run by Bo Jackson into a tunnel in the Kingdome during a Monday night game in 1987.

AP-ES-10-22-06 1939EDT

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