History of the Minnesota Vikings: "The Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League have one of the most interesting histories in all of sports. They have regularly been a winning team and have played in one of the league’s toughest divisions and have gained a large fan base along the way. However, they have not won a Super Bowl and last won an NFL Championship in 1969. As a result, their fan base is regarded as one of the most tortured fan bases in professional sports.
The seeds were planted for the Minnesota Vikings in 1959 when three Minneapolis businessmen were awarded a franchise in the new American Football League. Five months later, however, they forfeited AFL membership and were awarded the NFL’s 14th franchise with play to begin in 1961. They were officially named the Minnesota Vikings on September 27, 1960, partly to reflect the large number of Scandinavian Americans that lived in the area." ... (Click on title link above to read entire article on the history of the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League.) ...
