Order by the year each player joined the Minnesota Vikings. You place all 52 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.
Vikings fill this deck, and the job is to line them up by the year each first came to Minnesota. Each card shows a position abbreviation such as DE or WR. One player is down when you start, year visible. You place the rest one at a time, choosing a gap for each. Right picks reveal the year. Wrong ones move the player to his real place and cost you one of three lives.
Minnesota joined the league as an expansion team, and the deck follows it from the scrambling early offenses and the famous defensive line through a long series of good teams that came close and on to the recent roster. Defensive ends are the most common label, a fitting nod to that defensive tradition. Expect the middle of the deck to be crowded with solid starters who are easy to confuse.
Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.
Here are 28 of the 52 cards you might be dealt, with 24 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.