Minnesota Vikings Milestones

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How to play the Minnesota Vikings history timeline

Each card in the Vikings deck is a franchise moment, with a sentence of description printed under it, and you sort them by year. One card starts out on the line with its year showing. You decide which gap each new card goes into. A right choice shows the year; a wrong choice costs one of your three lives as the card moves to its proper place.

Vikings history is famous for coming close, and the deck has a lot of Super Bowl and conference title losses that look much the same on paper. The descriptions are your way through: look for opponents, scores and quarterbacks. Named miracle plays and stadium moves help frame the rest. The hardest cards tend to be the record-setting seasons, which don't always come when you'd guess.

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.

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Here are 25 of the 25 cards you might be dealt. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

Played their first season An NFL expansion team took the field in Minnesota, where rookie Fran Tarkenton came off the bench to throw four touchdowns in the opener.
Hired Bud Grant The stoic coach arrived from the Canadian league the same year Fran Tarkenton was traded to the Giants.
Lost Super Bowl IV Two weeks after winning the last pre-merger NFL title, Minnesota fell to the AFL's Kansas City Chiefs.
Alan Page won NFL MVP The Purple People Eaters' tackle became a rare defensive player to claim the league's top individual award.
Reacquired Fran Tarkenton The scrambling quarterback returned to Minnesota after five seasons with the Giants.
Lost Super Bowl VIII Minnesota's second title-game trip ended in a loss to Miami's powerhouse.
Lost Super Bowl IX The Purple People Eaters were held to a single special-teams touchdown in a loss to Pittsburgh.
Lost Super Bowl XI Minnesota's fourth Super Bowl defeat came against Oakland in Pasadena.
Won the 'Miracle at the Met' Tommy Kramer's last-second heave to Ahmad Rashad beat Cleveland and clinched a division title.
Moved into the Metrodome The Vikings left the open air of Metropolitan Stadium for a domed downtown Minneapolis home.
Reached the NFC Championship Game as a wild card An 8-7 team caught fire in the playoffs, upsetting the Saints and 49ers before losing at Washington.
Traded for Herschel Walker Minnesota sent a bounty of players and picks to Dallas in a blockbuster that badly backfired.
Hired Dennis Green A former Stanford coach took over the Vikings' sideline for what became a decade-long run.
Drafted Randy Moss and went 15-1 A record-setting offense with a spectacular rookie receiver posted the best regular season in team history.
Lost the NFC Championship on a missed kick Gary Anderson, perfect all season, shanked a field goal as the Falcons stunned Minnesota in overtime.
Lost the NFC Championship Game 41-0 The Giants shut out and embarrassed Minnesota one win short of the Super Bowl.
Endured the 'Love Boat' scandal A rowdy team boat party on Lake Minnetonka became an off-field embarrassment.
Drafted Adrian Peterson Minnesota took an Oklahoma running back seventh overall, and he set a single-game rushing record as a rookie.
Signed Brett Favre The veteran quarterback joined a former rival late in the summer and led Minnesota to a 12-4 season.
Lost the NFC Championship at New Orleans A late Brett Favre interception helped send the Saints to the Super Bowl in overtime.
Adrian Peterson ran for 2,097 yards Peterson fell nine yards short of the single-season rushing record and won league MVP.
Opened U.S. Bank Stadium The Vikings unveiled a striking glass-and-steel indoor stadium in Minneapolis.
Won on the 'Minneapolis Miracle' Stefon Diggs caught a walk-off touchdown against the Saints in the final seconds of a playoff game.
Completed the biggest comeback in NFL history Minnesota erased a 33-point deficit against the Colts during a 13-win season.
Won 14 games under Sam Darnold A journeyman quarterback thrived in Kevin O'Connell's offense for one of the best regular seasons in franchise history.