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The 1961 NFL expansion draft was a National Football League (NFL) draft in which a new expansion team, named the Minnesota Vikings, selected its first players. [1] That selection was provided by the expansion draft, held on January 26, 1961.
The 1961 NFL draft took place at the Warwick Hotel in Philadelphia on December 27–28, 1960. [1] [2] The league would later hold an expansion draft for the Minnesota Vikings expansion franchise. This draft was also the first regular draft for the Dallas Cowboys as they had only participated in the 1960 NFL expansion draft that year.
The 1961 season was the Minnesota Vikings' first in the National Football League (NFL) after being created as an expansion franchise to become the league's fourteenth team. . Their inaugural regular season game was a 37–13 victory at home to the Chicago Bears; rookie quarterback Fran Tarkenton came off the bench to toss four touchdown passes and run for another.
Yankee Stadium during a New York Giants - Cleveland Browns game in 1961. The 1961 NFL season was the 42nd regular season of the National Football League (NFL). The league expanded to 14 teams with the addition of the Minnesota Vikings, after the team's founders declined to be charter members of the new American Football League.
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George Halas wanted an NFL team in Dallas, and in 1960 the influential founder of the Chicago Bears helped Clint Murchison get one. Less than 10 years later, a league that for decades piggybacked ...
Minnesota Vikings enfranchised by the NFL in 1961, with the Dallas Cowboys moving to the Eastern Conference. [9] AFL's Los Angeles Chargers moved to San Diego. The league also reduced the roster limit from 38 back to 36 players during these two years. [6]
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