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Minnesota Vikings

The Minnesota Vikings are an NFL team based in Minneapolis, MN and currently play in the North Division of the NFC. Prior to 2002, they played in the Central Division, a.k.a. the Black and Blue Division. The Vikings won one NFL championship and lost to the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl IV and were the very 1st team to play in and lose 4 Super Bowls.

They won their division title 16 times, which is the 3rd-most amongst the teams currently playing in the NFL. The Vikings were established in 1961 after their ownership group pulled out of the American Football League and said they’d join the NFL as an expansion team. Their home games were played at Metropolitan Stadium through 1981; their home games have been played at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, which is the home of the MLB’s American League’s Minnesota Twins, since 1982. The Vikings name was partly meant to show Minnesota as the center of Scandinavian American culture.

The Vikings’ 2000 record was 11-5; after 14 weeks, they were 11-2 and had a short slump: they lost to the St. Louis Rams, Green Bay Packers and Indianapolis Colts. The Vikings’ 2001 record was 5-11; they bought out Dennis Green’s contract and hired Mike Tice to replace him. Tice coached the last game of 2001, in which the team lost to the Baltimore Ravens; he was named the permanent coach after that season, but the team wouldn’t make the playoffs again until 2004.

In the 2003 season, the Vikings almost made the playoffs, but were beaten when the Arizona Cardinals made a game-winning touchdown and knocked the Vikings out of playoff contention. Tice was fired after the 2005 season and replaced by Brad Childress; this move was one of many major front office changes made by the new ownership team that was led by Zygi Wilf. In the 9th week of the 2007 season, Adrian Peterson went on to break the record set by Jamal Lewis in 2003 for the most rushing yards in one game-296 rushing yards against the San Diego Chargers. Even though the Vikings made a strong push mid-season, they ended it at 8-8 and just barely missed the playoffs.