Your first Vikings experience

[NextQuestion]

Because it was.

Put it this way...Kurt Cobain died 19 years ago today. I may be only 27 (creepy - just like KC) but things like 1998 season, Cobain's death, Clinton getting a little fun under the table, etc... all seem like yesterday

[PurpleMustReign]

Put it this way...Kurt Cobain died 19 years ago today. I may be only 27 (creepy - just like KC) but things like 1998 season, Cobain's death, Clinton getting a little fun under the table, etc... all seem like yesterday

Omg 19 years?? That's insane!

[big deli Vike]

being from NJ, my dad got me Watching the Big Dog 84 and CC 80, only 7 yrs old and watching my dad cry when anderson missed his only kick of the year. moving on thru Culpepper and Moss gone, the T JAck and Favre year/s. We now have the best player in the game. Love watching AD run

[John_Viveiros]

Wow, I didn't realize some of you guys were so frickn old. Like me. My first memories of the Vikings was Joe Kapp hurdling some guy on the far sidelines on a QB scramble. I think it was one of the playoff victories...

[Eli]

Wow, I didn't realize some of you guys were so frickn old. Like me. My first memories of the Vikings was Joe Kapp hurdling some guy on the far sidelines on a QB scramble. I think it was one of the playoff victories...

John, was it this play (at the 2:05 mark), where he knocked the linebacker out? This was in the 1969 championship game against the Browns that put the Vikings into their first Super Bowl.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiVlcjWBj00

Or maybe this one (still shot at 8:09) against the Rams. Could have been the playoff game the week before.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YkbimuCLsQ

[Raptorman]

I loved watching Kapp and Washington. FWIW, you youngsters, Washington averaged 29.5 yards per catch in his rookie year. 17.8 over his 7 year career. Back then QB's took hits that would draw penalties and fines today. WR's were mugged going down the field. Defensive pass interference was when the defender knocked the receiver down before the ball got there.

My last live Vikings experience was a game in the Metrodome the first year it opened. Haven't seen them live since.

[jackal]

I am guessing early 90's or late 80's I enjoyed the game quite a bit but wasn't a fan
of one team The niners and Oakland were both in Northern California. I didn't identify
with either team. I watched the Vikings play and Guys like Randall Mcdaniel and
John Randle playing against the niners and I was hooked.

[cstelter]

First thing I still remember is Jan 13, 1974. I was 7 I guess-- in first grade probably. Dad was giddy that the Vikings were in the Superbowl and he was asking everyone who would win the game. I can't recall my logic-- but I picked the Dolphins to win. I seem to recall having no clue what it was even about. I grew up in Mankato and my dad taught at the College. He would watch the Vikings over lunch at training camp and would come home with stories about Gilliam or Sammy White doing something amazing on the field.

Despite my pick, I've considered myself a Vikings fan ever since.

[Reignman]

Nov. 6, 1966. Minnesota @ Green Bay. Game was on TV, no one in the family was watching. (I was raised in Appleton, WI, 29.3 miles from Lambeau field.) My dad had brought home a new "color" TV. (Yes, young ones, there was a time when not all TV's were color.)

Haha, not that I'm young but I know what you mean, I watched super bowl 19 on a 13 inch black n white.

I didn't like football when I was a young lad, I thought it was boring. In fact, if I misbehaved on game day, as a punishment my dad would make me sit down and watch the game with him. That was torture. I didn't follow the Vikings until '84. I can't say I would watch the games from start to finish, and maybe that was a good thing because that was the Steckel season, but I followed along a little bit that year. My earliest memory was not understanding how preseason worked lol. What do you mean we're winless? We beat the Falcons a few weeks ago. What's preseason? Why doesn't it count?

The first Viking game I watched from start to finish was the '85 opener vs the defending champion 49ers. Oh man what a game, what a 4th quarter, what a comeback. Who is this Joey Browner? What a machine. The 9ers beat us by 50 the previous season and just dissected Marino and the Dolphins in SB 19, and now we beat em in dramatic fashion. I was hooked after that.

Later that season my dad let me buy some numbers from his "bookie" friend. I picked 3-1. Lousy numbers. The Vikings were down 23-0 to the Eagles with a little over 8 min left in the 4th. After a quick TD pass to Rice, a fumble return by Teal, and another TD pass to AC, it was quickly 23-21. In just over 4 min I had my 3-1 lol, but there were still 4 min to go. Now I was torn between winning $25 (which was a lot of money to me back then) and witnessing the greatest comeback ever. After the Eagles went 3 n out, Wilson hit AC on a 40 yard TD bomb with a minute and a half to go. Talk about ridiculous! In 7 minutes the Vikings went from down 23-0 to leading 28-23. Jaworski made me nervous and drove the Eagles down field in the final 1:30, but the defense came up with a stop. That kind of win is worth way more than $25. One of the most memorable meaningless games I've ever watched.

[John_Viveiros]

John, was it this play (at the 2:05 mark), where he knocked the linebacker out? This was in the 1969 championship game against the Browns that put the Vikings into their first Super Bowl.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiVlcjWBj00

Or maybe this one (still shot at 8:09) against the Rams. Could have been the playoff game the week before.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YkbimuCLsQ

The second one. It was a true hurdle, like a track runner.

Did you see the Tarvaris Jackson jump pass in the first video?

[Eli]

The second one. It was a true hurdle, like a track runner.

Did you see the Tarvaris Jackson jump pass in the first video?

Yes! Except it was right on the money. Joe Kapp wasn't very pretty, but he sure was effective. It was in that 1969 season that he threw seven touchdown passes in the 52-14 win over the Colts. It was the last time an NFL quarterback has thrown seven TDs in a single game. I hadn't thought about it in years, but the Super Bowl loss was Kapp's last game with the Vikings.

I just watched the first video again. I think the hurdle against the Rams is the play shown immediately before the one against Cleveland, at 1:52, then it's included again at 3:20. Right at the goal line.

[petev_sj]

During the 80's the 49ers were definitely the most dominant team in the NFL. 1987, I was 12 years old, starting to get into sports. All I heard about the NFL was Joe Montana and the 49ers, so naturally that was the team I wanted to watch. I didn't know or cared that Minnesota had a football team. Then this game happened. Some guy by the name of Anthony Carter was kicking the greatest team in the NFL's A$$ single-handedly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsmivobcmuM

This game is my first Vikings memory. Admittedly I still didn't become obsessed with the Vikings until my senior year in HS. But what a memory to have.

[QTRMAN]

Hey purplemustreign,

I was living in Houston at the time and attended the game you're talking about. What a heart breaker. If I remember correctly Houston kicked the game winning field goal. We actually blocked the first attempt but were called for defensive holding. Refs gave the Oilers another try. I think it was the second win of the year for them.

[Imac]

During the 80's the 49ers were definitely the most dominant team in the NFL. 1987, I was 12 years old, starting to get into sports. All I heard about the NFL was Joe Montana and the 49ers, so naturally that was the team I wanted to watch. I didn't know or cared that Minnesota had a football team. Then this game happened. Some guy by the name of Anthony Carter was kicking the greatest team in the NFL's A$$ single-handedly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsmivobcmuM

This game is my first Vikings memory. Admittedly I still didn't become obsessed with the Vikings until my senior year in HS. But what a memory to have.

Amazing I read the first 4 or 5 posts in this thread then thought man there was a catch back in in 87 or 88 vs the 49ers where I really became a Vikes fan, a big step for then 12 year old me. I came to post the story and catch and here it is, same link and everything.

Skol!!!

Ian

[Lash Man]

I have been a fan since watching Chuck Foreman run for 200 against the Eagles that was the first game I watched on TV , for some reason " probably Detroit and Cleveland sucking " the Vikings were on TV in Toledo almost every other week back in the mid 70's . I saw those horns on the helmets and I was a fan for life .