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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
Minnesota Vikings logo
Minnesota Vikings wordmark
Logo Wordmark
League/conference affiliations

National Football League (1961–present)

Current uniform
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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
Championships

League championships (0†)

Conference championships (4)

Division championships (19)

† – 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)
Home fields

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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