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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 2023 NFL season.
Fred Cox § (1938–2019) – Minnesota Vikings football player, inventor of Nerf football; Brian Coyle (1944–1991) – openly gay politician; Christopher J. Cramer – University of Minnesota chemistry professor and vice president for research; Geno Crandall – basketball player with Hapoel Be'er Sheva in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
The Vikings' starting quarterback for the first game of their inaugural season against the Chicago Bears was George Shaw. [3] However, he was replaced by Fran Tarkenton early on, who passed for four touchdowns in the game and rushed for one more. Tarkenton went on to start in 10 of the Vikings' 14 regular season matches that year. [4]
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The Minnesota Vikings is an American football franchise based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The team was established in 1961 and is part of the National Football League 's NFC North division. Since then, the team has taken part in the NFL playoffs 31 times, reaching four Super Bowls in 1970 , 1974 , 1975 and 1977 .
The team was officially named the Minnesota Vikings on September 27, 1960; the name is partly meant to reflect Minnesota's place as a center of Scandinavian American culture. [22] From the start, the Vikings embraced an energetic marketing program that produced first-year season ticket sales of nearly 26,000 and an average home attendance of ...
Minnesota was dominated in all three phases and Vikings quarterback Sam Darnold was sacked nine times, tying an NFL playoff record. The Vikings went from a 14-win team to one-and-done in the playoffs.
"The Vikings then went through three quarterbacks in three seasons: Brad Johnson (1997),[15] Randall Cunningham (1998)[16] and Jeff George (1999);" - there's got to be a better way to say this; it's awfully informal. Also, you don't need to repeat Johnson's first name after its first occurrence.