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Minnesota Vikings Brief History

The Minnesota Vikings is an all-professional football team based in Minneapolis. The team is a member of the Western Conference and Central Division of the NFL. They are also members of the National Football Conference. The team plays in Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome of Minnesota. The team’s headquarters is located in Eden Prairie.

It was in August 1959 when the franchise was awarded by the AFL to the three businessmen of Minneapolis, namely Bill Boyer, H. P. Skoglund, and Max Winter. A few months later, the three owners, including with Bernie Ridder, decided to forfeit their membership with the AFL. The NFL awarded them the 14th franchise to play in the 1961 season.

The team was named Minnesota Vikings on September 27, 1960. The name is somewhat destined to reflect Minnesota’s history as the center of Scandinavian American culture. The Vikings is currently owned by Jeffrey Wilf, Zygi Wilf, Reggie Fowler, David Mandelbaum, and Alan Landis. The team is conducting summer training camps in some of the Minnesota universities since 1966.

Just like any other teams in the NFL, the Vikings won a lot of battles in the field. The Vikings has one NFL championship and four conference championships from NFL western and the NFC. They also have seventeen division championships in both NFL central and NFC central and north.

The Vikings fight song is entitled Skol Vikings. They always play this march every time the Vikings scores and also during the halftime and at the end of the regulation period. They have been playing this fight song since the team was founded in 1961.

It is natural to have rival teams in the league. The rivals of the Minnesota Vikings are the Detroit Lions, Green Bay Packers, and the Chicago Bears. The team is forced to play in their best form whenever they are up against these rival teams. The Vikings official colors are purple, gold, and white.