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The 1976 season was the Minnesota Vikings' 16th in the National Football League (NFL). The Vikings finished with an 11–2–1 record to give them their eighth NFC Central division title. They beat the Washington Redskins 35–20 in the divisional round of the playoffs, followed by a 24–13 win over the Los Angeles Rams in the NFC Championship ...
b The NFL expanded from a 14-game regular season schedule to 16 beginning in 1978. [22] c The 1982 NFL season was shortened from 16 regular season games to 9 due to a players' strike. [23] For playoff seedings, division standings were ignored and the league used a 16-team tournament format for the season. [24]
The 1976 NFL season was the 57th regular season of the National Football League. The league expanded to 28 teams with the addition of the Seattle Seahawks and Tampa Bay Buccaneers . This fulfilled one of the conditions agreed to in 1966 for the 1970 AFL–NFL merger , which called for the league to expand to 28 teams by 1970 or soon thereafter.
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 ...
at Minnesota Vikings Overall series Notes 1961: Tie 1–1: Bears 52–35: Vikings 37–13: Tie 1–1 Vikings join the National Football League (NFL) as an expansion team. They are placed in the NFL Western Conference, resulting in two meetings annually with the Bears. Game in Minnesota was the Vikings' inaugural game as a franchise.
Super Bowl XI was an American football game between the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Oakland Raiders and the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Minnesota Vikings to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for its 1976 season. The Raiders defeated the Vikings by the score of 32–14 to win their first Super Bowl.
Minnesota Vikings' Andrew Van Ginkel celebrates as he scores after an interception during the first half of an NFL football game against the New York Jets, Sunday, Oct. 6, 2024, at the Tottenham ...
The 1975 season was the Minnesota Vikings' 15th in the National Football League. The Vikings began with a 10-game win streak before losing by one point to the Washington Redskins , though there was generally very little expectation they would equal the 1972 Dolphins ' perfect season . [ 1 ]