The Minnesota Vikings are a professional American football team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They have been a member of the North Division since the NFL realigned in 2002 previously a member of the Central Division, also known as the Black & Blue Division, of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the National Football League (NFL). The Vikings have won one NFL championship (Pre-1970 AFL-NFL Merger) losing 23-7 to the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl IV and were the first team to both play in and lose four Super Bowls. The Vikings have won their division 16 times, third most among teams currently playing in the NFL.
The club was founded in 1961 after the ownership group withdrew membership to the American Football League and agreed to join the NFL as an expansion team. The team played home games at Metropolitan Stadium through the 1981 NFL season and have played their home games at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome since 1982.
