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The 1998 season was the Minnesota Vikings' 38th in the National Football League (NFL). The Vikings became the third team in NFL history to win 15 games during the regular season, [1] which earned them the National Football Conference (NFC) Central division championship and the first overall seed in the NFC playoffs.
The 1997 season was the Minnesota Vikings' 37th in the National Football League (NFL) and their sixth under head coach Dennis Green.Despite an 8–2 start, the Vikings would go on to lose five consecutive matches, finishing fourth in the division.
The Vikings had three starting quarterbacks in the following three seasons – Johnson (1997), [15] Randall Cunningham (1998) [16] and Jeff George (1999) [17] – before Daunte Culpepper began a six-year spell in his second year in the NFL in 2000. [18]
A member of seven NFL teams during his career, George helped the 1995 Atlanta Falcons and the 1999 Minnesota Vikings reach the playoffs and led the league in passing yards in 1997 with the Oakland Raiders. George's NFL tenure would also be marked by frequent conflicts with coaches and management, which resulted in his departure from most of his ...
He was signed to the practice squad of the Green Bay Packers on September 9, 1998, but was released three days later on September 12. [2] Bass was then signed to the Vikings' practice squad on September 17, 1998. [2] He was promoted to the active roster on November 10 and played in three games that season without recording any statistics.
In a 2018 retrospective, Sports Illustrated called the 1998 Vikings "The Greatest Team Never to Make It". [35] The loss had a dramatic effect on Minnesota sports culture, as the 1998 Vikings were considered the team most likely to deliver a championship to a franchise that had already suffered multiple heartbreaking defeats.
Cunningham led the league with a 106.0 passer rating while the Vikings scored a then-NFL record 556 points during the 1998 season, making him the first black quarterback to lead the league in that category. Cunningham claimed the Vikings' Monday night 37–24 victory over the Green Bay Packers was "the greatest night of my football career". [12]
1997 San Francisco 49ers roster; Quarterbacks (QB) 11 Jeff Brohm; ... January 3, 1998 Minnesota Vikings (6) W 38–22 1–0 Candlestick Park: NFC Championship Game