Minnesota Vikings

Minnesota Vikings
Minnesota Vikings
Current season
	Established January 28, 1960; First season: 1961; Play in U.S. Bank Stadium; Minneapolis, Minnesota; Headquartered at TCO Performance Center; Eagan, Minnesota
Logo	Wordmark
League/conference affiliations
	National Football League (1961–present) Western Conference (1961–1969) Central Division (1967–1969); ; National Football Conference (1970–present) NFC Central (1970–2001); NFC North (2002–present); ;
	Current uniform
Team colors	Purple, gold, white;
Fight song	Skol, Vikings
Mascot	Viktor the Viking
Personnel
Owner(s)	Zygi, Leonard and Mark Wilf
Chairman	Zygi Wilf
President	Mark Wilf
General manager	Kwesi Adofo-Mensah
Head coach	Kevin O'Connell
Team history
	Minnesota Vikings (1961–present);
Team nicknames
	The Vikes; The Purple People Eaters; The Purple and Gold;
Championships
	League championships (0); NFL championships (pre-1970 AFL–NFL merger) (1); 1969;
	Conference championships (4) NFL Western: 1969; NFC: 1973, 1974, 1976;
	Division championships (21) NFL Central: 1968, 1969; NFC Central: 1970, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1989, 1992, 1994, 1998, 2000; NFC North: 2008, 2009, 2015, 2017, 2022;
Playoff appearances (31)
	NFL: 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1982, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2022;
Home fields
	Metropolitan Stadium (1961–1981); Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome (1982–2013); TCF Bank Stadium (2014–2015); U.S. Bank Stadium (2016–present);

The Minnesota Vikings are a professional American football team based in Minneapolis. They compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the National Football Conference (NFC) North division. Founded in 1960 as an expansion team, the team began play the following year. They are named after the Vikings of medieval Scandinavia, reflecting the prominent Scandinavian American culture of Minnesota. The team plays its home games at U.S. Bank Stadium in the Downtown East section of Minneapolis.

The Vikings have an all-time overall record of 537–455–11, the highest regular season and combined winning percentage among NFL franchises who have not won a Super Bowl, in addition the most playoff runs, division titles, and (tied with the Buffalo Bills) Super Bowl appearances. They also have the most conference championship appearances of non-winning Super Bowl teams, with them being one of four (along with the Pittsburgh Steelers, Denver Broncos and Los Angeles Rams) to appear in a conference championship every decade since the 1970s.

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