For the sixth time in Mike Zimmer's eight years as coach, the Vikings will finish the regular season at home against the Bears. It will be the fourth time the Vikings have had nothing at stake.
The first matchup — a 13-9 victory at TCF Bank Stadium in 2014 — got the Vikings to 7-9 after a little-known receiver named Adam Thielen caught his first NFL touchdown pass. The Vikings won 38-10 in a 2016 finale that was notable for only two reasons: the people that scaled the U.S. Bank Stadium rafters to protest the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the fact the Bears scored their only TD on a play that would spark the "Philly Special" on the same field in Super Bowl LII a year later.