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Despite losing Tarkenton, the team managed to finish the season with a 9–5 record and went to the playoffs as winners of the NFC Central division title. They beat the Los Angeles Rams 14–7 in the Divisional Round in a game played in Los Angeles and termed the Mud Bowl, although the Vikings had lost 35–3 to the Rams in week 6. [1] [2] In ...
Since the franchise's inception, the Vikings have completed 64 seasons of play in the NFL. The team won one NFL Championship in 1969, and was the last team crowned NFL champions before the AFL–NFL merger in 1970. The franchise has been conference champions three times since the merger, but has never won the Super Bowl. The Vikings have been ...
The NFL officially counts and includes the statistical records logged by teams that played in the American Football League (AFL) as part of NFL history. Therefore, these teams' pre-merger win–loss records are accounted for. However, the NFL does not officially count All-America Football Conference statistics, despite the 1950 NFL–AAFC ...
The Vikings have played against every other team in the NFL at least five times each in the regular season. They have a winning record against 20 teams, a losing record against 10 and an even record against one: the Cincinnati Bengals, whom they have played 14 times, winning seven each.
From 1981 to 1998, the 49ers had one of the most successful stretches of dominance in NFL history. Armed with Bill Walsh 's innovative West Coast offense , Hall of Fame level quarterback play in Joe Montana and later Steve Young , and a dominant defense, the 49ers would win five Super Bowls in 1981 , 1984 , 1988 , 1989 , and 1994 , and made the ...
The 1977 season is considered the last season of the "Dead Ball Era" of professional football (1970 to 1977). The 17.2 average points scored per team per game was the lowest since 1942, and it was the only post-merger NFL season where no player surpassed 1,000 receiving yards. For 1978, the league made significant changes to allow greater ...
Highest winning percentage for regular season, .572 (782–581–38) Green Bay Packers 1921–2021 [1] Highest winning percentage for regular season and postseason combined, .573 (810–604–38) Green Bay Packers 1921–2024 [1] Most games won (regular season only), franchise history, 790 [2] Green Bay Packers 1921–2022
The 1977 San Francisco 49ers season was the franchise's 28th season in the National Football League, their 32nd overall, and their first season with general manager Joe Thomas and head coach Ken Meyer.