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This is a list of players who have appeared in at least one regular season or postseason game in the National Football League (NFL) for the Minnesota Vikings. This list is accurate through the end of the 2024 NFL season.
The Vikings have been divisional champions 21 times, most among current members of their division. Minnesota has played 1039 regular and postseason games and has appeared in the postseason 32 times. [2] The team's worst season was 1962, when they won two games, lost eleven, and tied one (a 0.154 winning percentage). [3]
He started 31 consecutive regular season games to start his Vikings career before sitting out the final game of 2019 with the team's playoff berth already secured; Sean Mannion started in his place. After Cousins left to join the Atlanta Falcons before the 2024 season , the Vikings signed Sam Darnold to a one-year, $10 million dollar contract.
First regular season game at the Metrodome: Tampa Bay Buccaneers 10–17 Minnesota Vikings, September 12, 1982; First game at U.S. Bank Stadium: San Diego Chargers 10–23 Minnesota Vikings, August 28, 2016; First regular season game at U.S. Bank Stadium: Green Bay Packers 14–17 Minnesota Vikings, September 18, 2016
Green's 10th season at the Vikings helm turned out to be his final year in Minnesota; with a 5–10 record with one game remaining in the 2001 season, the Vikings management bought out the final two years of Green's contract and promoted offensive line coach and former tight end Mike Tice to the top job for the final game of the season. [31]
The last hurrah before entering the sixth decade of existence, this year's game has some history on the line as the Kansas City Chiefs look to be the first team to win three straight Super Bowls.
Grant coached the Vikings from 1967-83, then came back for a final season as Minnesota’s coach in 1985. He never coached another NFL team. The Vikings had great success with Grant.
The Minnesota Vikings are an American football team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.After initially committing to become one of the founding members of the American Football League (AFL) in 1959, the team joined the National Football League (NFL) as an expansion franchise and played their first game in 1961, as part of the Western Conference.