All about Minnesota Vikings

Vikings is a professional American football team based in Minneapolis Minnesota. The team members are currently belongs to the North division of National Football Conference(NFC) in the National Football League(NFL). In 1961 Minnesota Vikings is seperated from AFL and joined in NFL.The Vikings has won 16 times and became the first team to participate in Super Bowl.

The team started to play in 1959 with three Minneapolis business mensand were awarded a franchise in the new American Football League.In 1960 with the help of Ridder they awarded the National Football League. At the beginning Vikings enhanced an energetic marketing program that produced a first-year season ticket sale of nearly 26,000 and an average attendance of around 34,586, about 85 percent of the capacity of 40,800 Metropolitan Stadium. In 1961 the Vikings won against Chicago bears with 37-17. The Vikings defeated Cleveland Browns in 1970. In 1975 they won against Pittsburgh steelers. The team defeated Tampa Bay with 17-10 in 1982. Vikings uniform and Logo:

Vikings contains two teams One of the teams primary logo consist of a profile of blond noreseman while other consist of a white viking horn.The Vikings helmet is purple with the viking horn on each side.The uniform design code consist of white pants,gold trim.In a design that is unique among American football teams, the white jerseys have a completely different stripe pattern, which is over the shoulders, than the purple ones, which are around the sleeve cuff.In 2006 they have changed the uniform Although it is same but some trim lines were added to the outside shoulders and sleeves.

Other name for Minnesota Vikings:

The purple People Easters.

League titles

• League Championships
• Conference Championships
• Division Championships

Viking fans are known to dress up in "Helga Hats", or purple hats with white horns and blond braids, showing the helmets popularly, believed to have been worn by Viking warriors.