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The 1971 season was the Minnesota Vikings' 11th in the National Football League (NFL). They finished with an 11–3 record to win the NFC Central title and return to the playoffs for the fourth consecutive season; however, they lost 20–12 at home to the eventual Super Bowl champion Dallas Cowboys in the divisional round.
b The NFL expanded from a 14-game regular season schedule to 16 beginning in 1978. [22] c The 1982 NFL season was shortened from 16 regular season games to 9 due to a players' strike. [23] For playoff seedings, division standings were ignored and the league used a 16-team tournament format for the season. [24]
The 10–3–1 49ers, making their first playoff game since 1957, [6] [7] [8] stunned the heavily favored Vikings, the defending NFL champions who had finished the regular season with an NFL best record at 12–2. The 49ers defeated the Vikings in Minnesota, despite losing three of five fumbles; Minnesota had four turnovers.
The 1971 season saw the Vikings play their first regular season game on artificial turf, when they played Philadelphia at Veterans Stadium October 10. For the second year in a row, they lost the divisional round at home, this time to Dallas (the score being 20–12) in the first NFL game played on Christmas Day.
The Minnesota Vikings entered the November 19 game in Atlanta with a spotless 9–0 record, but left with their first loss. The Falcons jumped out to a 17–7 halftime lead, then held on as the Vikings came up one yard short on fourth down at the Atlanta 39 with 55 seconds to play. The victory was the Falcons sixth in a row.
Minnesota has lost three of four and will be starting 28-year-old journeyman Nick Mullens, one of four quarterbacks to start a game this season for the Vikings. Mullens did enough to win last week ...
Note: Prior to the 1975 season, the home teams in the playoffs were decided based on a yearly rotation of division winners.Had the playoffs been seeded, the divisional round matchups would have been #3 Cleveland at #2 Miami and #4 wild card Baltimore at #1 Kansas City in the AFC; #4 wild card Washington at #1 Minnesota and #3 San Francisco at #2 Dallas in the NFC.
The 1975 season was the Minnesota Vikings' 15th in the National Football League.. The Vikings began with a 10-game win streak before losing by one point to the Washington Redskins, though there was generally very little expectation they would equal the 1972 Dolphins' perfect season. [1]