The Minnesota Vikings

Minneapolis, Gopher State is place to the Gopher State Vikings, and have been since 1961. Many see the Vikings to have got one of the most colorful, if not the most colorful, squad history of any squad in the NFL. They have got got one NFL title that they have won to their name and are the first squad to play and to lose 4 Superintendent Bowls. They have got got won their division 16 modern times however, and this ranks them as 3rd among NFL squads to have done so.

Before 1981, the squad played place games at Metropolitan Stadium. They have got played at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome since 1982. They were officially dubbed the Vikings on September 27, 1960. The name is supposed to reflect the fact that Gopher State is considered to be the centre of American civilization that is centered on a Norse heritage. The team's first caput manager was Norm avant garde Brocklin, who had just finished as a participant with a high repute having just defeated the Green Bay Packers in 1960 with the Eagles. Fran Tarkenton was their first signal caller and they won their first regular season game by whipping the Windy City Bears with a mark of 37-13 in 1961.

Tarkenton began his calling with a boom by throwing four touchdown go throughs and running for another in that gap game. However, the first season did not stop up with such as a great screening as they lost the adjacent seven games and finished the season with a 3-11 record. 1967 establish signal caller Tarkenton traded to the New House Of York Giants and a new caput manager with Bud Grant. Avant Garde Brocklin had resigned after the NFL season of 1966. Grant was from the Canadian Football League and had a record of leading squads in Canada to Championships. It was during the 1960s that the Vikings became known with their powerful defence as the Purple People Eaters. It was with this defence that they won their first Central Division Title and a topographic point in the playoffs for one of those years.

The Vikings had the best record in the NFL for 1969 with a 12-2 record. They had 12 consecutive triumphs which was their longer winning run in 35 years. They went all the manner to the Superintendent Bowl that twelvemonth and then lost to the Sunflower State City Chiefs with a mark of 23-7.

In 1973 the squad finished the season again with a 12-2 record and earned their 2nd Superintendent Bowl berth, Superintendent Bowl VIII. Again the Vikings were defeated in the great game by the Miami Dolphins in Houston, Lone-Star State at Rice Stadium falling to Miami with a mark of 24-7.

1974 was pretty much the same with the Vikings winning the Central Division again with a record of 10-4. They made it to the large game again only to lose to the Pittsburgh Steelers 16-6 in Tulane Stadium in New Orleans, Louisiana.

They made it to the Superintendent Bowl again for the 1976 season, this beingness their 3rd attempt in four years, and lost again to the Oakland Raiders in Pasadena, Golden State at the Rose Bowl. They lost that game 32-14.

One of the greatest bloopers that many say the Vikings have got ever done was in 1989 when the Vikings took John Herschel John Walker from Dallas with a concluding consequence that Dallas got Emmitt Ian Smith and Darren Woodson. John Herschel did not really execute as well as the Vikings expected while Dallas won three Superintendent Bowls in the 1990s with their award bill of exchange choices of Ian Smith and Woodson.

The Vikings are one of the most impressive squads to have got got ever graced a professional football game field to have never won a Superintendent Bowl. They have got got won 9 Divisional Playoffs, won 4 NFL Conference Championships, and lost 4 Superintendent Bowls that many say they should have won at least one of. Many say they are owed their twenty-four hours with the amount of endowment that saving graces the squad on a changeless basis. Maybe that is true. They play with bosom and fire and surely that counts for something.