So much potential. So much history and nothing to show for it. It’s tough being a Vikings fan sometimes but I’ll never forget these moments. It will make a Super Bowl that much sweeter to have endured so much heartbreak

Ever since that '09 year, knocking the Saints out of the playoffs feels as good as a super bowl win, or at least as far as I'll ever know

My Dad loved this team and was a fan since 1961 until his death a few years ago. He would've loved the Diggs catch against the Saints but wouldn't have grumbled about another conference let down. Of all the games he watched and dissected (he had a great football mind) throughout the years the one Vikings game he seemed bitter about was the Vikings first Super Bowl against the Chiefs "Bud was outcoached pure and simple" they should've won. Even if the Vikings were getting blown out like in the 2001 NFC championship game against the Giants he would watch until the very end...he just loved that team. After the 2011 season I quit. My Dad literally took it personal (to a degree). He was actually upset that I turned my back on his beloved Vikings. I explained that I took the Vikings losses more personal than he did and it had no longer become enjoyable but painful to watch..."I'm done" I told him. It never strained our relationship but he would be greatly disappointed to know I have not looked back. If the Vikings ever make it back to the S.B. I hope it is with a team that is a true contender five S.B. losses would be too much. If there is any fanbase deserving of a S.B. it's this one, however, Lions fans would disagree. This is dedicated to my Dad (through thick and thin) a Viking fan forever.

I’m 24 and I hope to see a SB win before I’m dead I feel as though I may be asking too much

Not to rub more salt in the wound but I’m surprised the az game at the end of 2003 wasn’t on here. That had to be the most painful regular season loss ever! I hope the Vikings are able to get their first super bowl win sometime 🤞🏻

Man this hurt a lot watching this ☹😒😩🥺😭💔 lol but good job you did a great job on this 👏🏾👍🏾🙌🏾

Loved this video. Still get chills when I see diggs run into the end zone. I want nothing more then to see Minnesota win a super bowl SKOL

Who's here preparing for the SBNation documentary?

They are cursed and have been crushing my heart since I was a little kid in the early 70`s. You did a fantastic job encapsulating the curse. Now you can add the 2022 season of disappointment. haha After the 98, 15 and 1 season NFC championship loss and heartbreak I refused to get emotionally attached to this team anymore. ha

Man. Watching this in 2022. Seeing Jeff Gladney listed among promising young players. B I G O O F.

As an Aussie Vikings fan I hope that one day I can watch a game live and hopefully one day in my life, witness a Lombardi trophy coming to the great state of Minnesota 💪 Go Vikings

Rip Jeff Gladney

Everyone talks about Gary Anderson's missed field goal in 1998 but he should not have even attempted the kick. The Vikings should have been taking a knee and going to the Super Bowl with a seven point win. On that last Vikings drive when they led by seven and were trying to run out the clock an Ivy league running back named Robert Smith made not one, not two, but three insanely dumb plays. Three times he ran out of bounds without being forced to stopping the clock for Atlanta and leaving them just over a minute to come back and tie the game. If he just makes two boneheaded plays instead of three the only chance for Atlanta is one last second 71 yards hail mary.

"Whatever don't kill the Vikings will make them stronger"!!! Them loses didn't make them disband the organization. I am a fan forever. I will be on cloud 9 when they win the Superbowl. Rest in peace Wade Wilson and Tarvarius Jackson.

What makes the Vikings even sadder is that they have the best win percentage among all franchises.

Well Sean Payton cheated in 2010 and now he's jinxed lol

As a Browns fan I always appreciated the Vikings. Love the helmets.

As a kid living in the Bay Area, I lived and breathed Vikings Football. The Purple Gang. Loved the rivalry with the Rams and the Fearsome Foursome. Broke my heart in four Super Bowls.

Jesus, the sequel to this video could cover this season alone with all the highs and lows.

Dude this makes me so sad I’ve been let down so many times. But Bruh you deserve WAYYY more views and likes.

Thanks. Enjoyed watching it. Lots of hard work went into this.

Great video! I’ve been a die-hard Viking fan my whole life. I’ve lived the heartbreak from the late 80’s to now. I became a Vikings fan when I played pop-warner/youth football. My hometown used NFL teams in that league and I was the QB for the Vikings. I have been a fan since. I’m from WV and Lonnie Warwick, Vikings LB from ‘65-‘72, lives in my area. Randy Moss grew up about an hour away from this area as well. My sophomore year of high school we played against DuPont, in basketball, which featured Randy Moss & Jason Williams. I will always bleed purple & gold! I just want to see them raise the Lombardi trophy up one time in my lifetime. Let’s keep the faith, we have a promising young team. Skol!!

Well done. My first game that I fully remember was the 75 Hail Mary game. I was 6 years old. It just got worse after that.

I still can't belive that pass Favre threw in the 09 NFC title game against the Saints. There already in FG range (albeit at the tail end), and he has ten plus yards of open field in front of him & the side line to stop the clock, and yet his decision is throw blindly throw a pass across his body up for grabs? I guess he's the all time INT leader for a reason lol

This was very well done, thanks for your hard work! SKOL

This is really well done. I've lived in Buffalo for most of my life, and have seen plenty of suffering - but I don't know that it compares to what Vikings fans have gone through.

I've been a Vikes fan since I was 13 years old. I'm 45 now. I've never wavered in my love for my Vikings although there have been times I questioned why bother. I got too much invested to change my mind now. SKOL.

I have been a fan since1970. Please win at least 1 Super Bowl before I die. I'm 59 now.

Being a vikings fan is possibly the most depressing practice in human history

And I've been here for it all !!! It's becoming very clear to me that I will probably depart this mortal coil never having seen my Vikings win that elusive Lombardi . I've often wondered, who in football heaven we pissed off so badly that they'd continually jerk this team and its fans around like this . Maybe it's the ghost of George Halas never forgiving our upstart Vikings for rubbing his Bears face in the turf in our very first game . Who knows and at this point does it matter ... I'll just end by saying the same thing we Vikings fans say every season , there's always next year !!!!

7:15 That wasn't a knock on The Vikings. The rest of the NFC central improved greatly in the 80's. That division was ATROCIOUS (other than the Vikings) in the 70's. So the 70's were easier for Minnesota to finish first.

After the 2-2 start of the 2017 season is when I started to support the Vikings. Before this season I hadn't watched a single full NFL game and of course I hadn't watched the Vikings. Any regrets on my decision? Not even one. Skol!

So many painful memories and yet so many great memories

Great Video.

I'm not the biggest Minnesota Viking fan, but I have to feel for their long-suffering fanbase. No Superbowl appearances in nearly 45 years, endless NFC championship chokes/collapse, and memorable talents such as Randy Moss, Adrian Peterson, Fran Tarkenton, Cris Carter, and Randall Cunningham. The Vikings take being a hard-luck franchise to exceptional heights.

My first game I watched was the 1987 NFC Championship Game. I was 6 years old. I've seen the Vikings make it to 4 NFC Championship Games with zero Ws. I appreciate the heartache as long as I am able to feel what it's like to win the Lombardi trophy at the end just once. It will make it all the sweeter. SKOL!

Amazing video!

Been a vikings fan since 1967. Will never see them win a Super Bowl.. 😥 💜💛💜💛💜

The Vikings are cursed because before the AFL NFL merger they won the last championship winning the Ed Thorp Memorial Trophy and it came up missing and since then it’s been downhill for the Vikings chances of winning the Super Bowl even getting to the Super Bowl 😞

I grew up in San Diego, but now that I live overseas and S.D. no longer has a team, I'm picking the Vikings to watch.

Seeing the loss to the falcons in that NFCCG still makes my stomach turn

Don't blame Anderson for the '98 Atlanta debacle. If anyone was to blame it was Dennis Green with perfectly dreadful clock management and play selection. Cunningham throws a pick-6 right at the end of the first half instead of squatting on it and even when Atlanta tried it with about a minute to play in regulation, Green opts to THEN squat on it and play for overtime where they promptly lost to an inferior team. Denver/Minnesota would've been a great game. Thanks Dennis! The man could spot talent, was a terrific motivator, but a BAD clock manager. As for Favre in '09, "This isn't Detroit, man! This is the Super Bowl!" Thanx PA! #skol

Im a minneapolis native of 32 years. I knew all of this. I lived through most of this. I proceeded to watch it. Now I'm sad. Well done video, but I regret doing this to myself.

We also tragically lost our offensive coordinator if I recall correctly, I think it was during the off season after the Mpls miracle. I just remember it was another blow to our momentum.

I love this

Chuck foreman was so good.

im a new nfl fan from scotland and i decided to pick the vikings as my favourite team and seeing this makes me sad but also excited to see when they finally do win one, probably not for a while though

love this video

I was laughing at the end of the video; That guy smashing up his coffee table sums up 60 years of Vikings fans frustration.

Im just sad for bud grant what a gentleman he was... hopefully we can win it soon so he can be able to witness it. In the KOC we trust

I just hope that before 2030 the Vikings win 1 or 2 Super Bowls. We all need to believe, yes we do every year…. But we need to believe more and more!

As a Packer fan I can relate, sure we have won championships in my lifetime but just 2 with 2 different HoF QBs is sad when we had so many more opportunities.

I was six when the Viking came in the league. I sat through each and every single heartbreak. I'm not exactly sure when it happened. But the bad luck or bad Karma or Jinx or whatever it is that permeates this franchise. Has finally gotten to be to much for me. I will not watch these games live any longer. It's too stressful and too heartbreaking. And it's always something. I will record the game and then watch for the final score. If they win, I will watch through the game and watch how it was played. No matter what happened. I knew the outcome and didn't need to get stressed out about the officials or the bad luck or just crappy play. I watched this team for sixty years and this team has disappointed me countless times. Numerous miracle plays just to end up disappointing fans in the next game. This franchise is literally jinxed. If they ever again reach the Super Bowl. I will watch it after I record it. But only if they win. To be honest. I don't think I need to worry about that. This team is not going anywhere. I don't expect them to reach the Super Bowl again in my lifetime. This is really depressing, but the problem with this team runs very deep. There is something about this franchise. It's not the ownership. But it is something to do with expectations. It has become a mountain too high for this team to climb. It doesn't matter who is on the team or the amount of talent. Teams that win the big games have a culture of winning. The Vikings franchise always appears happy and content to just be there and it's not enough and the fan should be demanding more after sixty years of failure. The owners and the coaches and right down to the last player will say the right things. But this team never plays like there is no tomorrow. That is what's missing. This team never leaves it all on the field. Never. The history books prove my point. They come back the next year and put up just another mediocre season. Regardless of their record. This team finds a way to fail and fall short.

When the first QB in franchise history is still the best QB in franchise history you have a systemic problem.

Curious that you completely left out the 2003 season finale vs the Cardinals.

Robert Smith ran out of bounds in the final drive against the Falcons in the championship game. Cost like 45 seconds that Falcons would not have.

Y'all had one of the best nicknames ever in the Purple People Eaters tho

Minnesota lost alot of their home field advantage when becoming a dome team.Not a coincidence that they've never been back to a SB since 1976.

I met Wade Wilson many times, a man of pure class. He got us Super Bowl ring on the team he grew up loving: America's Team, The Holy Grail of the NFL....(George Allen's words that stick) the Almighty Dallas Cowboys. Wade worked as a coach for his beloved Cowboys until his way too early sad passing. Btw Darrin Nelson was included in the Walker trade but refused to report so he stayed and a pick added, leading to Jimmy saying, "when it comes to Nelson we rather have the pick anyway. " The trade brought the first Cowboy I ever met Issac Holt. Met him here in the bowels of Veterans Stadium after laying out an eagle in the most pivotal play in the EarlyJimmy/Jerry win Dec 15, 91 on the Kelvin Martin punt return.

Purple pain is a perfect name for the Vikings.

Love that Jeff Gladney is one of the last players mentioned...one more blip in the everlasting curse.

My Vikes 💔 I’m 59 now and loved Minnesota from 1969-2009 ⭐️ 40 years of heartbreak was ENOUGH 🤬🤬🤬🤬

Watching this in the 2022-2023 season, it feels good being 10-2

I'm born and raised in mols Minnesota tell me about the heartbreaks go Vikings 💜🏈👁️🏆!?

I hate how much I love this team

The Browns be like, "9 NFC championships and 4 Super Bowl appearances? How do we sign up for this kind of "curse" instead of the one we have?"

20 division titles? Damn, they are cursed!

4 years into the 2020s and the curse still continues.

Three added notes: 1) the hail mary should have been offensive pass interference. 2) Kai had missed some kicks leading up to that game all from the left hash. For some reason they designed a run to the left on the previous play. Smh 3) 2017 was truly a year of destiny. New stadium, hyped fan base with the new skol chant, lost 2 starting QBs and a stud RB by week 2, THEN we get the Minneapolis Miracle. It truly felt as though it was our fate to finally get our first SB and on our home turf. That Philly game hurt bad.

I blame the vikings secondary in that 1998 NFC championship game, one of the DB’s dropped a game selling pick, and Chris chandler led a game winning drive in OT, so I wouldn’t blame Anderson all on this even thought he missed a easy fg

My dad would have loved this... he was a (mostly disappointed) Vikings fan his whole life... 😖💜

THEY WILL WIN THE DAMN SUPERBOWL BEFORE I HAVE GRANDKIDS FOR CHRIST SAKES. I'm only 26 too

Doesn't really matter, I'm a 'Viking' for life... I like the Saints, Cowboys, Bills, Broncos, & Cardinals, but Vikings is my #1... Same with the 'Iowa Hawkeyes'. I Lived from Germany to Hawaii, all over the U.S., graduated high school 2 miles from Arizona State University, & it doesn't matter. (Growing up a 'Military Brat'.) When I set my Picks, it won't change. GO VIKES !!!

I don't think the Herschel Walker trade is correct. The trade was for mostly players (listed in video) and those players were insure with the draft picks. So it was either the player or the draft picks in the trade, not both. And the insurance (draft picks) would only go to Dallas if those players could not make the team. Jimmy Johnson later admitted the players were better than he already had, but cut them because he wanted the draft picks (or in other words, Jimmy Johnson tanked).

Sub'd keep up the great content

1998 should have been the year. 15-1, 556 points. Coach of the year with Green, Rookie of the year with Moss. There was NO WAY the Vikings would lose.... And then Anderson took the kick.

This is the most depressing video I’ve ever seen lol. And it’s the second time I’m watching it

I love when I hear Paul Allen!

This reminds me that even through the pain, the Vikings have PUT the pain on a lot of franchises. Cleveland, the Saints (4 times in the playoffs, the MM beat one of the last really good Drew Brees/Sean Payton teams. Kirk beat the very last one in 2019). In 1987 they beat a VERY good 49er team to get to the champ. game. Writing this in 2022, lets see how this ages. They have a team (once again) that can make some noise.

If you think about it , my foster kids Vikings have lost 8 super bowls. I 💯 percent knew they would get blown out because of management.

2022 Minnesota Vikings are going to be good

2009…💔

Here after losing to the 0-10-1 Lions

Been waiting 60 years to win a super bowl!

All this time, it has to be the color purple--it puts them to sleep--too mellow--relaxing.

Rashad was a true coward as a receiver. I met Mike Lynn at his daughter's graduation in 1993.....great guy, he noticed my Cowboys tie right away and said "Your welcome." Lol

As a Cowboys fan ....they screwed up moving in doors, that weather was an advantage. The Cowboys came in 1960 and NOT ALLOWED TO DRAFT UNTIL 1961....and look at the job Tom Tex and Gil did compared to the Vikings....

Well, I for one remember the Golden Age of the 70s. Sure it would have been nice to win a Super Bowl but at least they could beat the Rams and Cowboys to get there. I was at the Vikings' games in Dallas. They defeated Dallas 27-10 in the 73 NFC Title Game, 23-21 in Week 4 of 74, and lost to the Cowboys in Texas Stadium in 77. (The most exciting part of that game was when the guy caught on fire). They never fell to Rams until the 1978 playoffs. And the worst loss showed just how good of a coach Grant was. After the Hail Mary loss, they came back and returned to Super Bowl 11. Lots of teams that suffered cruel playoff losses collapsed the year after. Wally Hilgenburg told me when I was working on an article that was published, that the reason they lost Super Bowls was that they didn't score enough points. Their style was predicated on other teams making mistakes. The Raiders, Dolphins, Chiefs, and Steelers didn't make them in Super Bowls but the Vikings did beat them all in the regular season when they did. I am very much a Bud Grant disciple in my coaching style. (I coach Texas High School Football) I do not like long practices spending all weekend watching films and wasting time sitting in the field house. As Grant said, "time does not represent work." Grant also didn't put up with nonsense as Dallas's Tom Landry did. Chuck Foreman and Ahmad Rashad acted bored after scoring. Sammy White after his bonehead move in 1976 against the Lions never did anything again to celebrate. I always liked their classiness and Grant said losing those Super Bowls didn't change his life. He would have liked to have won them sure, but he still pretty much got to do what he wanted in life.

Nobody acknowledges that the kicker was run into in the NFC Championship game against the Falcons. Just an observation.

Sean Payton cheated on 2010 and screwed the Vikings out of their one great chance at a Super Bowl, now he won’t have another ever again. Man the Vikings and kickers are an awful mix, that stuff is hard to watch.

I think you can pretty safely call the Purple People Eaters the greatest unit of any kind in major American sports. It’s the best defensive line fs, and I don’t think there’s a secondary O-line, stating rotation, outfield goalie tandem, or anything like that that’s been better. Honestly these same Vikings WR core in the late 90s might be the only competition. Hurts to say as a Bears die-hard but it’s true

Add Jan 15 2023. The "Wild card" game. Personally my hopes were all dashed in 18 when I really thought there was justice for them to finally win a championship while being the first team to do so at home. Unfortuneltly it was the Eagles time to finally lose their "curse"

Readign all of these comments makes me think there is still hope for the Vikes to get at least one superbowl before I die (Which wont be for a long long time). We have amazing team its jsut that we cant all get in sync on the right time. We need peterson moss and favre back. Could you imagine moss and jjetas standign side by side as favre throws to them. Chills. Allthough I thought that Sean Payton the former saints coach set up the bounty. they amde a movie about it called Home team starring Kevin James as Sean Payton.

I knew when that 98 Vikings team didn’t win to get to the super bowl, all hope was lost

Good shit #SKOL

I've dubbed them the most cursed team in all of football since the waning seconds of the 2017 NFC Championship.

Aww, the Paul Allen cal on Favre pick so much better, hurt too much?

Now that the Saints are screwed in 2021. I’m going to have a lot of fun seeing the Saints suffer how we did.

Herbert?

Will they ever win?