This was the longest play in Vikings history.

After viewing the damage, Vikings management and the NFL decided to move the game to Monday and play it at Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan.

During home games at the Metrodome, the Vikings Gjallarhorn is loudly played and sounds often after the team has made a big play, gets a first down, or scores a touchdown.

He knew the Vikings ' secondary was able to play very far off receivers because Viking defensive ends Carl Eller and Jim Marshall knocked down short passes or put pressure on the quarterback.

Stram also concluded that the Vikings ' aggressiveness on defense also made them susceptible to trap plays ; Mike Garrett's rushing touchdown would come on a trap play.

Four plays later, on the first play of the second quarter, a pass interference penalty on Vikings defensive back Ed Sharockman nullified Dawson's third down incompletion and gave Kansas City a first down at the Minnesota 31-yard line.

On the second play of their next drive, Vikings wide receiver John Henderson fumbled the ball after catching a 16-yard reception, and Chiefs defensive back Johnny Robinson recovered the ball at the Minnesota 46-yard line.

Fittingly, the Vikings ' final play was an interception Cuozzo threw to Thomas.

Minnesota recovered their ensuing onside kick, but an offsides penalty on the Vikings nullified the play, and they subsequently kicked deep.

Vikings running back Brent McClanahan returned the ensuing kickoff 22 yards to the 39-yard line, but on the first play of the drive, Tarkenton's pass was intercepted by Wagner.

Dallas went on to defeat the Minnesota Vikings, 17 – 14, with a 50-yard touchdown pass from Staubach to Drew Pearson with less than a minute to play in what was called the " Hail Mary pass ".

The Raiders then marched 90 yards to the Vikings 7-yard line ( the key play being a 35-yard run by Clarence Davis ), but had to settle for a field goal from Mann, giving them a 3 – 0 lead 48 seconds into the second quarter.

In 1961, after the completion of Metropolitan Stadium in 1956, both the Minnesota Twins and Minnesota Vikings began regular-season play.

The Vikings were always one of the lowest enrollment High Schools in the state, but always drew large crowds with the exciting play on the court.

The area in Gulafjorden called Flolid ( just east of the village of Eivindvik ) is now a national historic place, where an open air theater and annual summer play commemorates the Vikings who gathered there 1000 years ago to accept Christianity.

The Vikings and the New York Giants had been scheduled to play a football game on the afternoon of December 12.

The Vikings will play in the Metrodome through at least the 2013 season, and perhaps into the 2014 season, as construction would not require the immediate demolition of the Metrodome.

You know, where the Vikings used to play?

The play earned the 49ers a 24 – 21 victory and a bit of revenge on the Vikings, who had defeated them in the 1987 playoffs.

Formed in 1998, ( though there has been a local side dating from the 19th century which later folded of the same name ), the club are nicknamed " the Vikings " or the Scab or sometimes even the Crabs and team play in red and white strips.

Widnes Vikings won the NFP competition that year and the club was seen to be fit to play in Super League.

Although the AFC teams quickly decided on a divisional alignment, the 13 NFC owners had trouble deciding which teams would play in which divisions, as most teams were attempting to avoid placement in a division with the Cowboys and / or the Vikings, and were trying to angle their way into the same division as the Saints, the weakest team in professional football at the time.

The Vikings won the 1969 NFL championship and NFC crowns in 1973, 1974, and 1976 and Eller was one of 10 Vikings to play in all four of their Super Bowls, all losses.

However, the Vikings lacked both the equipment necessary to undertake a siege against the burh and a developed doctrine of siegecraft, having tailored their methods of fighting to rapid strikes and unimpeded retreats to well defended fortifications.

Alfred's burh system posed such a formidable challenge against Viking attack that when the Vikings returned in 892 and successfully stormed a half-made, poorly garrisoned fortress up the Lympne estuary in Kent, the Anglo-Saxons were able to limit their penetration to the outer frontiers of Wessex and Mercia.

Neither Alfred's reformed fyrd nor his burhs alone would have afforded a sufficient defence against the Vikings ; together, however, they robbed the Vikings of their major strategic advantages: surprise and mobility.

At the decisive Battle of Leuven in September 891, he defeated an invading force of the Northmen, or Vikings, essentially ending their invasions on that front.

In 2001, the Panthers won their season opener 24 – 13 over the Vikings, but set a ( then ) NFL record by losing 15 consecutive games to finish the season 1 – 15.

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

Scandinavian Norsemen, called " Vikings " in Western Europe and " Varangians " in the East, combined piracy and trade in their roamings over much of Northern Europe.

Contact between Sweden and what is now Finland was considerable even during pre-Christian times – the Vikings were known to Finns both due to their participation in commerce and plundering.

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.

Viking navigational techniques are not well understood, but historians postulate that the Vikings probably had some sort of primitive astrolabe and used the stars to plot their course.

The Vikings were major contributors to the shipbuilding technology of their day.

The Vikings won their first regular season game, defeating the Chicago Bears 37 – 13 on Opening Day.

The losing continued throughout much of the 60s as the Vikings had a combined record of 32 wins, 59 losses, and 7 ties in their first 7 seasons with only one winning season ( 8 – 5 – 1 in 1964 ).

In, that stingy defense earned the Vikings their first Central Division title and their first playoff berth.

The Vikings addressed the problem by drafting running back Chuck Foreman with their first pick in the 1973 draft.

The Vikings won their first 9 games of and finished the season with a 12 – 2 record.

The Vikings then advanced to their second Super Bowl in franchise history, Super Bowl VIII, against the Miami Dolphins at Rice Stadium in Houston, Texas.

The Vikings played in their second straight Super Bowl, Super Bowl IX ( 3rd overall ), losing to the Pittsburgh Steelers, 16 – 6, at Tulane Stadium in New Orleans on January 12, 1975.

The Vikings played in Super Bowl XI, their third Super Bowl ( 4th overall ) in 4 years, against the Oakland Raiders at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, on January 9, 1977.

The Vikings, however, couldn't break their bad luck in the Super Bowl.

In, the Vikings again won the Central Division with a 9 – 5 record and advanced to their 4th NFC Championship Game in 5 years, but were defeated by the eventual Super Bowl Champion Cowboys, 23 – 6, at Texas Stadium.

There was no more playoff magic as the Rams finally defeated the Vikings, 34 – 10 in Los Angeles after having lost in their previous four playoff matchups ( in 1969, ' 74, ' 76 and ' 77 ).