As with most Minnesota sports fans, my relationship with the Vikings NFL football franchise is one of unrequited love, and not a little bit of pain.
My earliest memory of watching the Vikings came on January 11th, 1971. The Vikings were playing the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl IV. I don’t have any memories of the big game being discussed in school or any pre-game hype. As a boy who had just turned 7, I was just playing in our family den, an indoor hostage to January in Minnesota, when my dad came in and turned on a football game on the TV.