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Minnesota Vikings Season Tickets
Event Date: Sat, Sep 11, 2010 @ 1:00 PM
Event Location: Metrodome (Chicago)



Information about the Minnesota Vikings


The Minnesota Vikings joined the NFL in 1961 as an expansion team. If you love football, and live in the New Orleans area, you really ought to go see them play. The NFL's Minnesota Vikings are based in New Orleans, LA. The Minnesota Vikings play at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. Vikings tickets are available on-line and by phone through Ticketmaster. If you want to obtain Minnesota Vikings season tickets, there is a priority list, make sure you contact the club about your interest in Minnesota Vikings tickets. Brad Childress coaches the Minnesota Vikings.

The Minnesota Vikings compete in the North Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the National Football League (NFL). Before the NFL rearranged its divisions in 2002, they had been in the Central Division. The Central Division had been known as the Black & Blue Division, due to the style of play. The Vikings have won one NFL championship before the 1970 AFL-NFL Merger. They lost 23-7 to the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl IV, however. The Vikings were the first team to play in 4 Super Bowls. They are also the first to lose 4 Super Bowls. The Vikings have won their division 17 times, third most among teams currently playing in the NFL, yet have never won the Super Bowl.

The Minnesota Vikings were founded in 1961. The owners had withdrawn from the American Football League and agreed to join the NFL as an expansion team. They played their home games at Metropolitan stadium through 1981. Since then, Minnesota Vikings tickets will take you to the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, which they share with the Minnesota Twins. The Vikings are currently attempting to secure a new stadium for their own exclusive use.

The Minnesota Vikings have been in existence since 1961, but when you buy Vikings tickets, you also buy into the tradition of the NFL. The NFL has been around since 1920. The NFL is the largest pro league for American Football, in terms of both money and of fan support. 11 teams formed the original league in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association. The league changed its name to the American Professional Football League in 1921, and ended up renaming itself the National Football League in 1922. As of this writing, the league is made up of 32 teams from all over the United States of America. The league is divided into two conferences, the AFC and the NFC, and each conference has four divisions.

Football is the most popular sport in the United States. When you buy Minnesota Vikings tickets, you are becoming part of a very large group of football fans. Although baseball is known as America's national pastime, football is actually the most popular. According to a Harris Poll, Pro Football moved ahead of baseball as the fans' favorite in 1965, and has remained America's favorite sport ever since. As of 2008, according to Harris, the NFL is the choice for more people as their favorite sport than the next three most popular. If you consider college football, then 42 percent of Americans consider football to be their favorite sport.