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The Vikings peaked in ... 1970? That's what one study says

Vikings fans, no doubt, remember it like it was yesterday: a 10-3 win over the Packers in Week 10 of the 1970 regular season.

No? Maybe they should have savored the moment -- because according to one measure, it's been all downhill from there.

The stats-centric folks over at FiveThirtyEight crunched the numbers on the complete history of every NFL team. They used a method known as Elo ratings, a measure of team strength that accounts for basic factors like margin of victory, home-field advantage and quality of opponents.