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The 2006 season was the Minnesota Vikings' 46th in the National Football League (NFL). Under new head coach Brad Childress, the team finished with a 6–10 record; however, they led the league in rushing defense, surrendering only 985 rushing yards; they are one of only two franchises in NFL history to allow fewer than 1,000 rushing yards in a 16-game season (the other was the Super Bowl ...
Their worst seasons since the NFL changed to a 16-game schedule were in 1984 and 2011, when they could only manage a 3–13 record. [4] The best regular-season record was achieved in 1998, when the Vikings went 15–1, but kicker Gary Anderson , who had gone 35-for-35 in field goal attempts during the regular season, missed a 38-yard attempt ...
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.
Brady threw for a then-Super Bowl record 466 yards, ... 29. XLI (41, 2006) Indianapolis Colts 29, Chicago Bears 17 ... The Vikings failed to win the Super Bowl in their fourth and most recent attempt.
With the seventh worst record in the 2006 NFL season, the Vikings selected prized running back Adrian Peterson out of the University of Oklahoma, who led the Sooners to the 2007 Tostitos Fiesta Bowl. Peterson made his Vikings regular season debut on September 9, catching a 60-yard screen pass from Tarvaris Jackson that went into the end zone ...
In the 17-9 win, the Vikings became the first team since the 1974 Raiders to post multiple sacks in each of their ... Behind Wonnum’s big game, Vikings tie NFL sack record that dates to 1970s ...
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]
On Sunday, pages were turned back in the Vikings’ record book to Oct. 6, 1963. President Kennedy was in the White House then and the only current member of the Minnesota coaching staff alive was ...