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[edit] 0 for 4 Curse

There is an orphan article 0 for 4 Curse which needs to be connected with another article and it relates to either the Vikings and/or the Bills. If someone knows how to work that into the curses section of this article. If not then perhaps someone should mark it for deletion. --Randolph 18:02, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I've added it. Howabout1 Talk to me! July 5, 2005 21:14 (UTC)

[edit] Improvement Drive

National Football League is currently a candidate on WP:IDRIVE. Vote for it if you are interested in contributing.--Fenice 20:03, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Sex Scandal

Regarding my removal of the "Sex Scandal" chapter of the Minnesota Vikings page, I believe this type of journalism is best left out of NFL team pages. I believe it only encourages fans of rival NFL franchises to add more negative information about teams they don't like. If we want to add a chapter on player transgressions to every NFL team, I believe the Cowboys and Packers sites could use a few updates as well. How about the Mark Chmura hottob incident with teenage girls or Michael Irvin in a hotel room with cocaine and women? Anyway, I think you see my point.--User:Erdrick 23 October 2005

Sure. It's called "censorship". I take it you're on the team's payroll? Wahkeenah 23:35, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

No, I am just a fan. All of the information posted is true, but there are about a million other positive things that could have been added to the team page other than disparaging news. I don't see this type of information on other NFL team pages and I think it's in poor taste. --User:Erdrick 28 October 2005

Maybe if the other NFL teams get caught porking out-of-state hookers, this type of information will show up on other NFL team pages. Give the prurience factor some time to dissipate. It will go away eventually. When the next scandal comes along. Wahkeenah 04:51, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

Some teams' rosters in some sports have little flags next to the names to denote country of origin. In this case, maybe certain players should have a little picture of a Lake Minnetonka cruise boat next to them. Then, depending on how the wheels of jurisimprudence turn, some of them could then have a little picture of a jail cell door, which ironically looks a bit like a football gridiron. Wahkeenah 00:28, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

I believe the "prurience factor" has dissipated. This issue doesn't involve on-field activities and has it's own seperate Wikipedia article. It's appearance on the team page appears to go against common Wikipedia practice. The San Francisco Giants page doesn't mention the Barry Bonds scandal. The Liverpool FC page has one sentence on Heysel. The University of Colorado football page doesn't mention the school's sex scandal. In order to focus this article on it's Category, I plan to remove the section in a few weeks. If you'd like to discuss the issue, do so here. Johnn 7 13:36, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

I'm going to remove this section from the Minnesota Vikings page. The incident is well represented on Wikipedia in the article 2005 Minnesota Vikings boat cruise scandal. This will bring the article into current Wikipedia practice as mentioned above and the practice of the Wikipedia:WikiProject National Football League, specifically Wikipedia:WikiProject National Football League/Team pages format. Also, the section gave a strong 21st century POV to a history article. Johnn 7 12:01, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] AFL

I made the change to state the ownership was to have a team in the AFL as oppose to saying the Minnesota Vikings were to be a AFL team. It may be 6 to one and half dozen to the other, but the name "Vikings" was not chosen until Sept 1960 and was suggestion by the first gm of the team, who got his job on a recommondation by Pete Rozelle, the point being it not for certain that the team in the AFL would have been called the Vikings. Smith03 19:24, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] New Helmet

I request an image of the new helmet to replace the image of last year's helmet.12.208.197.248 19:51, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

Done. Please refresh your browser. I noticed that it was really only a minor change as they added some lines to make the horn on the helmet slightly more defined. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 22:57, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Notable Alumni

on the notable alumni part, some of them don't seem too notable. If you list every single player they've ever had the list kind of loses it purpose. Guys that only played a short time such as one or two years shouldn't be listed

If you're talking about me adding Karl Kassulke to the list, maybe it might be no one remembers him. He started for several years at strong safety, but was paralyzed in a motorcycle accident shortly before the 1973 season. He started in Super Bowl IV. WAVY 10 16:40, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] External Links

What do you guys think about adding http://vikings.mn-sz.com as a external link? 74.193.81.136 03:00, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Looks ok to me. I'm gonna add http://www.purplepride.org MrPenguin 2 17:08, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Article layout

I think we should get this Minnesota Vikings article to look more like the Chicago Bears article since that is a Wikipedia featured article. What do you all think? RyguyMN 00:51, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Should the 2006 and 2007 player movement sections be moved to the appropriate season article? RyguyMN 04:03, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Unsourced

This article needs to cite it's sources with inline citations, I tagged it. Tayquan hollaMy work 13:10, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

  • The 2000's section does not have proper intext citations, using internet links instead. Needs tobe fixed. --Lendorien 23:50, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Trivia

What doyou guys think about adding all the weird things that have happened to the Vikes over the years? I can think of at least 2 off the top of my head. Marshall running the wrong way for a fumble recovery, and Johnson throwing himself a touchdown pass. MrPenguin 2 17:08, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

We can include these, but they should be integrated within the article not listed as a seperate section. Wikipedia doesn't like having trivia sections. RyguyMN 04:08, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] New Stadium

There is no mention of the New Vikings Stadium in the article even though there is article. This should be integrated.--RockRNC 22:22, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

Is there a new viking stadium in work? I know they have tried many times before, but failed to get it. Xbox999 (talk) 16:08, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Can we get this pics of this years jerseys?

i have no idea what their new jerseys look like so can we get some images of their current ones?Rcollins03 06:12, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:MinnesotaVikings 1000.png

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BetacommandBot 08:21, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Uniform Color

There is no mention that I see of the fact that the Vikings uniform color, while remaining purple, was darkened significantly during the 1990s (much the same as happened with the green of the Philadelphia Eagles). Am I mistaken in this? Unschool (talk) 00:45, 3 March 2008 (UTC)