We have nine weeks before the Vikings host the Saints on Monday Night Football for the 2017 regular-season opener, so Vikings.com’s writers are taking a look each week at a “memorable Monday” in franchise history.
Minnesota is 27-32 all-time on MNF, and the Vikings are scheduled to play twice on the series that launched in 1970.
We’ll continue the series with the ninth-ever appearance on Monday Night Football by the Vikings, when Minnesota hosted the Pittsburgh Steelers on Oct. 4, 1976, at Metropolitan Stadium. It was the teams’ first meeting since Super Bowl IX on Jan.