The Minnesota Vikings football team was founded in 1961 after the owners agreed to withdraw their membership to the American Football League and join the National Football League as an expansion team. The Minnesota Vikings played home games at the Metropoltan Stadium until the end of the 1981 National Football season. They now play all their home games a the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome.
The team was officially named the Minnesota Vikings on September 27th , 1960. The name is partly meant to reflect Minnesota's place as a center of Scandinavian American culture. They are the professional football team of Minneapolis, Minnesota and belong to the North Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League. The Minnesota Viking have won one National Football Championship and were the first team to make it to four Super Bowls and lose. The Minnesota Vikings have won their division sixteen times.
More recently the Minnesota Vikings have tried to stack their team with top players. They aquired Jerry Rice a superb running back who had wide success with The San Fransisco Forty-Niners. They also obtained Randy Moss a wide reciever who they thought would take them to the Super Bowl. Randy Moss proved to be more trouble than he was worth and was eventually traded to the New England Patriots where he is obtaing the success that was not to be with The Minnesota Vikings.
Minnesota began the 2006 season with a record of 4-2. Coach Childress became the first coach of The Minnesota Vikings to start with a 2-0 record in his first year. The Minnesota Vikings would end up finishing the football season with a 6-10 record tying for the 7th worst record in the NFL. They received the seventh pick in the NFL Draft and they selected Adrian Peterson out of the University of Oklahoma. In Week 9 of the 2007 season, Peterson would go on to break the NFL record set by Jamal Lewis in 2003 for most rushing yards in one game. Lewis rushed for 296 yards against the San Diego Chargers. Along with Culpepper as their quarterback, The Minnesota Vikings could be looking at a play off spot this season.
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