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.

The Vikings have won one NFL championship, in 1969, prior to the league's merger with the American Football League ( AFL ).

Despite producing some of the best teams in NFL history over the years, the Vikings have not won a Super Bowl.

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

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

The Vikings won the Central Division again in with a 10 – 4 record, which was a tie for the best record in the conference.

In, the Vikings, led by Tarkenton and running back Chuck Foreman, got off to a 10 – 0 start and easily won another division title.

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.

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.

He served as the Vikings ' offensive coordinator from 1968 – 85, when the team won 11 division titles and played in 4 Super Bowls.

In his 10 seasons as the coach of the Vikings, Green won four NFC Central division titles, had eight playoff appearances, two NFC Championship game appearances and an all-time record of 97 – 62.

Though the Vikings won the coin toss, Atlanta went on to win it 30 – 27 in overtime on Morten Andersen's 38-yard field goal.

The Vikings played the Dallas Cowboys in the divisional round on January 17, 2010, and won the game by a score of 34 – 3, advancing the Vikings to the NFC Championship game, the ninth in franchise history.

The Vikings won a crucial victory against another struggling team in the form of the Dallas Cowboys 24 – 21, but in Week 7 the Vikings lost to the arch-rival Green Bay Packers 28 – 24.

In Week 9, the Vikings played the Arizona Cardinals at home and won 27 – 24 in overtime.

With Leslie Frazier filling in for the fired Childress, the Vikings won two games in a row.

Although the Vikings have dominated the overall series, the Saints have won the last three including the 2009 NFC Championship Game.

The Giants won their first playoff game against the Philadelphia Eagles, 20 – 10, and defeated the Minnesota Vikings 41 – 0 in the NFC Championship game.

Aided by the " Purple People Eaters " defense, led by future hall of fame defensive linemen Carl Eller and Alan Page, and future hall of fame safety Paul Krause, the Vikings won the NFC Central for the sixth time in the previous seven seasons.

The Vikings, coached by Bud Grant, won the NFC Central for the eighth time in the last nine seasons with an 11 – 2 – 1 record, and advanced to their fourth Super Bowl in eight years.

The Redskins won a defensive battle against the surprising Minnesota Vikings in the NFC Championship Game, 17-10.

In 2002, the Hopewell High School's football team, the Vikings, won the state championship.

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.

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.

Redskins cornerback Darrell Green broke up a pass at the goal line from Wade Wilson intended for Darrin Nelson to end the Vikings ' hopes of a Super Bowl.

Walker's performance fell short of expectations in his three seasons with the Vikings, while the Cowboys rode their draft picks to three Super Bowl victories in the early to mid 1990s.

The Vikings became the first 15 – 1 team to fail to reach the Super Bowl.

In the first week of the 2010 NFL regular season, the Vikings played the defending Super Bowl champions, the New Orleans Saints.

Although its opponents would include winners of 9 of the last 15 NFL MVP awards, the team advanced to the 2010 NFC Championship game where they defeated the Minnesota Vikings, led by Brett Favre, 31 – 28 in overtime ( at 9: 19 CST ), and then went on to win their first Super Bowl appearance in franchise history.

The Saints 2010 season began in the Superdome as the Super Bowl Champion New Orleans Saints defeated the Minnesota Vikings 14 – 9, in a rematch of the 2010 NFC Championship Game.

Tarkenton would go on to lead the Vikings to three Super Bowls and earn a place in the Hall of Fame, while the Giants suffered through one of the worst stretches in their history, winning only 23 games from 1973 – 79.

But the Patriots were eventually held to negative yardage (- 19 ) throughout the entire first half, and finished with just 123 total yards from scrimmage, the second lowest total yards in Super Bowl history, behind the Minnesota Vikings ( 119 total yards ) in Super Bowl IX.

Despite the AFL's New York Jets winning the previous season's Super Bowl, many sports writers and fans thought it was a fluke and continued to believe that the NFL was still superior to the AFL, and thus fully expected the Vikings to defeat the Chiefs ; the Vikings entered the Super Bowl as 12. 5 to 13-point favorites.

Meanwhile, the Cowboys marched to the Super Bowl with playoff wins over the Minnesota Vikings, 20 – 12 in the NFC Divisional Playoffs, and the San Francisco 49ers, 14 – 3 in the NFC Championship Game, only giving up one touchdown in the two games.

Super Bowl VIII was an American football game between the National Football Conference ( NFC ) champion Minnesota Vikings and the American Football Conference ( AFC ) champion Miami Dolphins to decide the National Football League ( NFL ) champion for the 1973 season.

# The Skin of our Teeth-In this the first episode Clark travels from Byzantine Ravenna to the Celtic Hebrides, from the Norway of the Vikings to Charlemagne's chapel at Aachen, telling his story of the Dark Ages ; the six centuries following the collapse of the Roman Empire.

Lou Grant was teaching Ted Baxter how to bet on football games, and used Ted's money, as well as some of his own to bet on the hometown Vikings winning the Super Bowl.

In the Wild Card round, the Redskins defeated the Minnesota Vikings on the road, by the score of 24 – 7, however they would fall in the Divisional Round to the San Francisco 49ers in a road game by the score of 20 – 13, ending the Redskins ' hopes of retaining their Super Bowl crown.