Minnesota Vikings Tickets : The Vikings Currently Have The Fifth-highest Winning Percentage In Nfl

The Minnesota Vikings are a professional American football team based in Minneapolis

, Minnesota. The Vikings currently compete in the North Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the National Football League (NFL).

Prior to divisional realignment in 2002, they had been a member of the Central Division, also known as the Black & Blue Division. The Vikings joined the NFL as an expansion team in 1960.

The Vikings have been one of the most successful NFL franchises. They currently have the fifth-highest winning percentage in the NFL. They are also one of only five NFL teams to win 15 games during the regular season.

The Vikings have won one NFL championship (pre-1970 AFL-NFL Merger), but subsequently lost 23/7 to the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl IV. They were the first team to play in four Super Bowls, although they are winless.

The Vikings have won their division 18 times, third most among teams currently playing in the NFL, and most among current teams in their division since joining the NFL in 1961. Counting playoff appearances after 1970, they are tied with the second most in the league.

No team has as many NFC or AFC Championship game appearances (nine) without a Super Bowl title. Only three other NFC teams have played in more Super Bowls than the Vikings. The team currently has ten members in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

The team played home games at Metropolitan Stadium through the 1981 NFL season and have played their home games at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome since 1982. The Vikings conducted summer training camp at Bemidji State University from 1961-65. The Vikings have been conducting summer training camp at Minnesota State University in Mankato since 1966.

In the first week of the 2010 NFL regular season, the Vikings played the defending Super Bowl champions, the New Orleans Saints. The Vikings lost 14-9. In week 2, the Vikings played the Miami Dolphins and lost 14-10. The Vikings defeated the Detroit Lions 24-20 in the third week of the season. After a week 4 BYE, the Vikings received star wide receiver Randy Moss in a trade with the New England Patriots.

Even with the addition of Moss, the Vikings lost to the New York Jets 29-20 in week five. The Vikings won a crucial victory against another struggling team in the form of the Dallas Cowboys 24-21, but in week seven the Vikings lost to arch-rival Green Bay Packers 28-24. In week nine, the Vikings played the Arizona Cardinals at home and won in overtime: 27-24. Favre threw for a career-high 446 passing yards.

The Vikings then went on to face their other divisional rival the Chicago Bears but were beaten and then went on to be blown out 31-3 in a rematch with the Packers. The team then proceeded to fire Brad Childress not long after. With Leslie Frazier filling in for the fired Childress, the Vikings won two games in a row against the Washington Redskins on the road, and a blowout win over the Buffalo Bills at home.

After a winter storm dropped nearly 17 inches of snow in the Minneapolis/St Paul area the Saturday prior to the Vikings December 12 home game versus the New York Giants and 30 mph gusts drove snow removers off the dome's roof overnight, several panels were damaged as the weight of the snow caused the roof to collapse.

After viewing the damage, Vikings management and the NFL decided to move the game to Monday and play it at Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan.Because of on-going repairs to the roof of the Metrodome, the Vikings played their December 20 game versus the Chicago Bears at TCF Bank Stadium .

The game was played 29 years to the day after the last outdoor game at old Met Stadium. On December 26, the NFL announced that the game versus the Philadelphia Eagles was being postponed to Tuesday, December 28, 2010 because of blizzard conditions.This marks the third consecutive venue or date change for a Vikings game and will be the first NFL game played on a Tuesday since 1946.

The team is currently owned by Zygi Wilf, Mark Wilf, Jeffrey Wilf, Leonard Wilf, David Mandelbaum, Alan Landis and Reggie Fowler.

by: Cynthia Hoffman

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