Some fans choose their team, and some fans are chosen by their team. Which was it for you? Today, we want to hear your story from you: How you became a fan of the Minnesota Vikings?<\/p>\n
When did you first become a fan? Were you born into it? Was there a specific game or season that pulled you in? What\u2019s the earliest moment you remember as a fan?<\/p>\n
I\u2019ll start with my story, as yours truly was literally born into this whole Vikings fandom thing. I was born on a Minnesota Vikings game day on 26 September 1976. The most notable thing about that game, at least from one perspective, is that the Vikings managed to get a 15-yard penalty before the game even kicked off.<\/p>\n
Apparently the traffic between where the Vikings were staying in Detroit and the Lions\u2019 stadium, the fancy and relatively new Pontiac Silverdome (it opened in 1975), was worse than anticipated. A 10-mile bus ride that was anticipated to take about 15 minutes took much longer than it should have and the Vikings didn\u2019t get to the stadium until 12:53 PM ahead of a 1:00 PM kickoff. So, because the Vikings showing up late caused a delayed start, they were assessed a 15-yard penalty before the game got underway.<\/p>\n
Nobody scored until the third quarter, when the teams exchanged 49-yard field goals. Chuck Foreman then scored on a 5-yard touchdown run in the fourth quarter to make it 10-3, and the Lions scored on a 1-yard touchdown pass from Greg Landry to Charlie Sanders to make it 10-9. However, for whatever reason. . .and I can\u2019t find a decent recap of the game that will tell me why. . .the Lions didn\u2019t get the extra point, and the final score wound up being a 10-9 Minnesota win<\/a>.<\/p>\n Having been born in Minnesota, pretty much everyone in my family was a Vikings fan when I was growing up, and I just sort of went along for the ride. Like a lot of you, I just haven\u2019t gotten off of the ride since then.<\/p>\n So, how about the rest of you? Were you born into this whole thing, too? Did you convert from another fandom at some point?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some fans choose their team, and some fans are chosen by their team. Which was it for you?…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":773473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2073],"tags":[7,233,259,59322,1312,2529,6,26483,234],"class_list":{"0":"post-773472","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-minnesota-vikings","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-minnesota","10":"tag-minnesota-vikings","11":"tag-minnesota-vikings-discussion","12":"tag-minnesota-vikings-news","13":"tag-minnesotavikings","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-site-stuff","16":"tag-vikings"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116126295325179366","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=773472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/773473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}