GREEN BAY, WIS.-The Minnesota Vikings got the last laugh on the Green Bay Packers, and Randy Moss stuck around for every sweet second of this one.

Moss caught two touchdown passes, making good on his promise to atone for walking off the field last week while his teammates were trying to win their regular season finale, and the Vikings rolled to a 31-17 victory over the stunned Packers yesterday.

The Vikings, joining St. Louis as the only 8-8 teams ever to win in the playoffs, will travel to Philadelphia on Sunday after dominating the first postseason meeting with their border rivals.

Green Bay had swept the season series, including a last-second win at the Metrodome two weeks ago to clinch the NFC North crown and the home field for yesterday’s showdown at Lambeau Field, where the Packers have lost two playoff games in the last three years.

Daunte Culpepper threw four touchdown passes – giving him 11 TD passes and no interceptions against Green Bay this season – and the Vikings picked off four Brett Favre passes after managing just 11 interceptions all season.

Minnesota scored on its first three possessions, jumping out to a 17-0 lead in avenging two 34-31 losses to the Packers.

The Packers, who lost Pro Bowl receiver Javon Walker to a shin injury in the first half and left tackle Chad Clifton in the third quarter, pulled to 24-17 on Najeh Davenport’s 1-yard plunge with 13:37 left.

But penalty-prone rookie cornerback Ahmad Carroll committed two costly infractions that set up Culpepper’s 34-yard touchdown toss to Moss that gave the Vikings a 14-point cushion with 10:18 remaining.

Cornerback Al Harris jumped the slant-and-go route and Moss, running on a gimpy ankle, hauled in the pass for the score.

The Vikings stumbled into the playoffs by losing seven of their last 10, the worst record over the final 10 regular season games of any team in the 72-year history of the NFL playoffs. The Packers, meanwhile, were feeling good after winning nine of their last 11 and drawing the Vikings, who had lost 20 of their last 22 games outside of domes.

You never would have guessed. On the first series, linebacker Nick Barnett came up to stop Culpepper on third-and-short and left Moe Williams alone. Culpepper lofted the ball over Barnett and Williams scampered 68 yards for a touchdown and a 7-0 Vikings lead just 1:40 into the game.

After the Packers went three-and-out, the Vikings needed just four plays to make it 14-0 on Moss’s 20-yard touchdown catch when Harris never saw the underthrown pass.

Favre threw an interception right into the gut of cornerback Antoine Winfield on the next possession, and Morten Andersen’s 35-yard field goal made it 17-0.

The Packers pulled to 17-10 on Ryan Longwell’s 43-yard field goal and Bubba Franks’s 4-yard touchdown catch, and they appeared to catch a huge break when Andersen slipped on a 29-yard field goal attempt.

But Brian Russell’s subsequent interception led to Nate Burleson’s 19-yard touchdown catch that made it 24-10.