Viking quarterback Joe Kapp's two incompletions and a delay of game penalty forced Minnesota to punt from their own 5-yard line.

Cartoons like Hägar the Horrible and Vicky the Viking, and sports uniforms such as those of the Minnesota Vikings and Canberra Raiders football teams have perpetuated the mythic cliché of the horned helmet.

Located in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Northern Star Council was formed from the merger of Viking Council and Indianhead Council in 2005.

* E. J. Henderson, Minnesota Viking football player, former Maryland Terrapin.

* Erin Henderson, Minnesota Viking football player, former Maryland Terrapin,

Viking is a city in Marshall County, Minnesota, United States.

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Viking Township is a township in Marshall County, Minnesota, United States.

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* Former Minnesota Viking & NFL Hall of Famer Carl Eller

* The Kensington Runestone of Minnesota, held to prove Nordic Viking primacy in discovery of the Americas.

* The Kensington Runestone, a rune stone found in Minnesota, possibly carved by Viking explorers or a hoax

* On October 25, 1964, in a game against the San Francisco 49ers, Minnesota Viking Jim Marshall recovered a fumble and ran 66 yards with it the wrong way into his own end zone.

Linguists who, due to this and similar facts, reject the Medieval origin of the Kensington inscription, consider this word to be a neologism and have noted that, in a Norwegian newspaper circulated in Minnesota, the late 19th century Norwegian historian Gustav Storm often used this term in articles on Viking exploration.

* Viking, Minnesota, United States, a city

* Jeff Wright – Former Minnesota Viking Defensive back

From 1997 to 2001 Eller collaborated with Craig M. Rosenblum on Carl Eller's Viking News, on the frontier of online sports journalism by and for fans in Minnesota.

Like fellow Minnesota Viking Chris Hovan, Randle was known for eccentric face painting as well as trash talking on the field.

Then Junior Cathy Klep designed the Viking logo, based on the Minnesota Vikings logo.

* Joe Senser, Restaurateur and former Minnesota Viking color commentator.

Both in 2011 and 2012, Radio K's local Minnesota and Minneapolis music show, Off the Record was named the Best Local Music Broadcast of the Twin Cities by City Pages.

Forum Communications Company of Fargo, North Dakota, owns and operates the Detroit Lakes Newspapers and also provides the regional daily newspaper, The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead, with coverage spanning the Fargo-Moorhead metropolitan area and much of northwest Minnesota and northeast North Dakota.

On October 24, 2009, Montoya was the victim of a racial stereotype during ESPN's coverage of a college football game between Ohio State and Minnesota.

The station serves the Thief River Falls, Minnesota area with rimshot coverage in Grand Forks, North Dakota.

He and host, Jason Lewis, were also honored by the Minnesota Associated Press for best spot news coverage.

He and host, Jason Lewis, were also honored by the Minnesota Associated Press for best spot news coverage.

The Minnesota Daily was the first college newspaper to provide access to its coverage via the Internet in 1990.

On December 22, 1968, CBS interrupted coverage of a Western Conference championship game between the Minnesota Vikings and Baltimore Colts in order to show a broadcast from inside the Apollo 8 spacecraft, headed towards the moon ( the first manned space mission to orbit the moon, and a major step towards the lunar landing the following July ).

As cable became more popular, WVTV's signal started to be carried on most cable systems in Wisconsin with some cable coverage in Minnesota and The Dakotas, becoming a regional superstation in the manner of Texas sister stations KTVT in Dallas – Fort Worth and KHTV in Houston.

The device received media coverage in May 2005 in the United States after Onterrio Smith, a former Minnesota Vikings running back, was caught with one at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, which resulted in his suspension.

During the day, it provides at least B grade coverage to almost all of Minnesota ( as far north as Duluth and as far south as Rochester ), plus large portions of Iowa and Wisconsin.

Agreements with other broadcast stations have provided sports programming allowing viewers to see coverage of such activities as the KSTC broadcasts of Minnesota State High School League football, hockey, and basketball tournaments.

Skorich was considered the logical choice after the club gave Norm Van Brocklin permission to seek the head coaching job with the Minnesota Vikings, the newest National Football League entry.

In the strike-shortened 1982 season, the Falcons made the playoffs but lost to the Minnesota Vikings, 30 – 24.

On January 18, 1999, the Falcons upset the top-seeded 15 – 1 Vikings at Minnesota in the NFC Championship Game, 30 – 27 in an epic overtime victory.

On December 21, 2008, Atlanta beat the Minnesota Vikings 24 – 17 to clinch a wild card spot, earning a trip to the playoffs for the first time since 2004.

He missed several important field goals, including a 31-yarder which would have sent the Panthers into overtime against the Minnesota Vikings.

On December 20, 2010, Hester set an NFL record for most touchdowns on a punt or kickoff return with his 14th career return coming against the Minnesota Vikings.

Later that same year, they would trade veteran running back Herschel Walker to the Minnesota Vikings for five veteran players and eight draft choices.

Gailey led the team to two playoff appearances with a 10 – 6 record in 1998 and an NFC East championship, but the Cowboys were defeated in the playoffs by the Arizona Cardinals 20-7 ; after an 8 – 8 season in 1999 ( during which Irvin suffered a career-ending spinal injury in a loss to the Philadelphia Eagles ) ending in another playoff loss ( this time to the Minnesota Vikings 27-10 ), he was fired and became the first Cowboys coach who did not take the team to a Super Bowl.

Dallas ended their playoff run after a hard divisional playoff loss to the Minnesota Vikings.

There were also five teams which the Texans had never beaten: the Baltimore Ravens ( 0-5 in regular season, 0-1 in playoffs ), Minnesota Vikings ( 0-2 ), New York Jets ( 0-5 ), Philadelphia Eagles ( 0-3 ) and San Diego Chargers ( 0-4 ).

Although the white jerseys of the Minnesota Vikings at the time also had a similar striping pattern and continued as such ( as well as the throwbacks the New England Patriots wore in the Thanksgiving game against the Detroit Lions in 2002, though the Patriots later wore the same throwbacks in 2009 with truncated stripes and in 2010 became their official alternate uniform ), the Colts and most college teams with this striping pattern did not make this adjustment.

In the years 1953 – 66 the Colts played in the NFL Western Conference ( also known as division ), but were never known to have a significant rivalry with any of the other franchises in that alignment, seeing as they were the eastern-most team and the rest of the division included the Great Lakes franchises Green Bay, Detroit Lions, Chicago Bears, and after 1961, the Minnesota Vikings.

Weaver ultimately narrowed his choices down to three: Mike Shanahan, an assistant coach for the San Francisco 49ers, Tony Dungy, defensive coordinator for the Minnesota Vikings, and Tom Coughlin, head coach for Boston College.

In 1982, the Twins moved into the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, which they shared with the Minnesota Vikings, but the team continued to struggle.

The Minnesota Vikings are a professional American football team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

The team was officially named the Minnesota Vikings on September 27, 1960 ; the name is partly meant to reflect Minnesota's place as a center of Scandinavian American culture.

The Vikings played their first game at the Metrodome in a preseason matchup against the Seattle Seahawks on August 21, 1982 in a game Minnesota won, 7 – 3.

This injury was a very significant part to this Minnesota Vikings team due to the fact they also lost Moss.

Minnesota began the 2006 season 4 – 2 ( Childress became the first coach in Vikings history to start 2 – 0 in his first year ), but would finish the year at 6 – 10, receiving the 7th pick in the NFL Draft ; with it, the Vikings selected Adrian Peterson out of the University of Oklahoma.

Because of on-going repairs to the roof of the Metrodome, the Vikings played their December 20 game versus the Chicago Bears at TCF Bank Stadium ( the home of the University of Minnesota Golden Gophers ).

The 2010 season was a step down for the Minnesota Vikings.

Minnesota Vikings uniform combination

Minnesota Vikings uniform: 1996 – 2005