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The Vikings, after winning the Thorp Trophy, went on to face the American Football League champion the Kansas City Chiefs in the AFL-NFL World Championship Game (which is more commonly referred to as Super Bowl IV). The spirit of Ed Thorp was rumored to have cursed the Vikings, since they lost the trophy that was named in his honor.
The curse started with the 1998 Minnesota Vikings, who went 15-1 in the regular season, where despite being favored, they ended up losing to the Atlanta Falcons in overtime, 27-30 in the NFC Championship. [15]
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 ...
Of those 12 teams, only two have been to the Super Bowl four times but lost every time – the Bills and Minnesota Vikings. But there’s only one team in the history of the NFL to go to four ...
*The two games in Minnesota were the two games in Denver but in reverse, giving this series a real mirror feeling after four games. Just as Denver had no answer for Minnesota in a Game 2 blowout ...
Vikings vs. Broncos: ... Packers fans are living under some kind of bizarre witch’s curse where they’ve had a franchise quarterback for 30-plus unbroken years, but he’ll only win you one ...
Statue of "Big Ole the Viking" in Alexandria, Minnesota, proclaiming the city the "Birthplace of America," based on an assumed authenticity of the Kensington Stone. The Kensington Runestone is a slab of greywacke stone covered in runes that was discovered in Western Minnesota , United States, in 1898.
The 1970 season was the Minnesota Vikings' 10th in the National Football League and the first season following the AFL–NFL merger.Under head coach Bud Grant, they finished with a 12–2 record and won the first ever NFC Central title before losing to the San Francisco 49ers 17–14 at home in the NFC Divisional Playoff game.