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 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 won the Super Bowl in this episode but Ted's hopes were dashed when it was revealed that Lou actually bet all the money on the Steelers.

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.

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.

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 play their home games at the Mall of America Field at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome in Minneapolis as they have since 1982 ( a bill was passed in May 2012 to build a new stadium for the team, which is expected to open by the 2016 season ).

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 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.

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 ).