Viktor the Viking

Minnesota Vikings
Current season
Established 1960; 57 years ago (1960) First season: 1961 Play in U.S. Bank Stadium Minneapolis, Minnesota Headquartered at Winter Park Eden Prairie, Minnesota
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League/conference affiliations
National Football League (1961–present) Western Conference (1961–1969) Central Division (1967–1969) National Football Conference (1970–present) NFC Central (1970–2001) NFC North (2002–present)
Current uniform
Team colors	Purple, Gold, White
Fight song	Skol, Vikings
Mascot	Viktor the Viking
Personnel
Owner(s)	Zygi Wilf
Chairman	Zygi Wilf
President	Mark Wilf
General manager	Rick Spielman
Head coach	Mike Zimmer
Team history
Minnesota Vikings (1961–present)
Team nicknames
The Vikes, The Purple People Eaters, The Purple and Gold
Championships
League championships (0†) NFL Championships (pre-1970 AFL–NFL merger) (1) 1969
Conference championships (4) NFL Western: 1969 NFC: 1973, 1974, 1976
Division championships (19) NFL Central: 1968, 1969 NFC Central: 1970, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1989, 1992, 1994, 1998, 2000 NFC North: 2008, 2009, 2015 † – Does not include the AFL or NFL championships won during the same seasons as the AFL–NFL Super Bowl championships before the 1970 AFL–NFL merger
Playoff appearances (28)
NFL: 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1982, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2015
Home fields
Metropolitan Stadium (1961–1981) Mall of America Field at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome (1982–2013) TCF Bank Stadium (2014–2015) U.S. Bank Stadium (2016–present)

National Football League (1961–present)

Purple, Gold, White

League championships (0†)

Conference championships (4)

Division championships (19)

The Minnesota Vikings are an American football team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Vikings joined the National Football League (NFL) as an expansion team in 1960, and first took the field for the 1961 season. The team competes in the National Football Conference (NFC) North division; before that, the Vikings were in the NFC West, and before that they were in the NFL's Western Conference Central Division. The team has played in four Super Bowl games, but lost each one. The team plays its home games at U.S. Bank Stadium in the Downtown East section of Minneapolis.

Professional football in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul area (the "Twin Cities") began with the Minneapolis Marines/Red Jackets, an NFL team that played intermittently in the 1920s and 1930s. However, a new professional team in the area did not surface again until August 1959, when Minneapolis businessmen Bill Boyer, H.P. Skoglund, and Max Winter were awarded a franchise in the new American Football League (AFL). Five months later, in January 1960, after significant pressure from the NFL, the ownership group, along with Bernie Ridder, reneged on its agreement with the AFL and then was awarded the National Football League's 14th franchise, with play to begin in 1961.Ole Haugsrud was added to the NFL team ownership because, in the 1920s, when he sold his Duluth Eskimos team back to the league, the agreement allowed him 10 percent of any future Minnesota team. Coincidentally or not, the teams from Ole Haugsrud's high school, Central High School in Superior, Wisconsin, were also called the Vikings and also had a similar purple-and-yellow uniform design.

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