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The 2010 season was the Minnesota Vikings' 50th in the National Football League (NFL), and the fifth and final under head coach Brad Childress.After a loss to the New Orleans Saints in the NFC Championship ended their 2009 season, the Vikings had hoped to defend their NFC North division title for the third year in a row and contend again for a Super Bowl championship.
The Vikings have been divisional champions 20 times, most among current members of their division. Minnesota has played 820 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]
The Vikings defense dominated the Cowboys in the final playoff game in the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, sacking quarterback Tony Romo six times, forcing him to fumble three times, and intercepting a pass, while Minnesota quarterback Brett Favre threw four touchdown passes, three to receiver Sidney Rice, who finished the game with 6 receptions ...
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The 2010 NFL season was the 91st regular season of the National Football League (NFL) and the 45th of the Super Bowl era.. The regular season began with the NFL Kickoff game on NBC on Thursday, September 9, at the Louisiana Superdome as the New Orleans Saints, the Super Bowl XLIV champions, defeated the Minnesota Vikings.
The Vikings won a crucial victory against another struggling team in the form of the Dallas Cowboys 24–21, but in Week 7 the Vikings lost to the arch-rival Green Bay Packers 28–24. In Week 9, the Vikings played the Arizona Cardinals at home and won 27–24 in overtime, coming back from a 24–10 deficit in the final four minutes of regulation.
Tragedy struck the Minnesota Vikings in the summer of 2001, when offensive tackle Korey Stringer died of heat stroke in training camp in Mankato, Minnesota. [8] Even though Minnesota is known as a cold-weather state, in July and August it is known to be brutally hot. The 2001 season started off with a 24–13 loss to the Carolina Panthers. This ...
Minnesota Vikings: TCF Bank Stadium: MIN win: clinch playoff berth [206] 17 Sunday January 3 Minnesota Vikings: 20–13: Green Bay Packers: Lambeau Field [207] Packers–Vikings rivalry Winner: NFC North champion Loser: Wild Card Wild Card Sunday January 10 Seattle Seahawks: 10–9: Minnesota Vikings: TCF Bank Stadium NFC No. 6 vs. NFC No. 3 ...