page_title: 1969 Minnesota Vikings season
hierarchical_section_title: 1969 Minnesota Vikings season
caption_attribution_description: English: A football card from the 1986 Jeno's Pizza NFL football card stickers set of Kansas City Chiefs defensive linemen Buck Buchanan (left) and Curley Culp (right) tackling Minnesota Vikings running back Dave Osborn (middle) in Super Bowl IV. The card is numbered 50 in the set. The back of the card reads: THE CHIEFS WERE VERY DEFENSIVE Buck Buchanan (86) and Curley Culp (61), Kansas City's defensive tackles, surround Minnesota running back Dave Osborn, as the Chiefs surprise the Vikings 23-7 in Super Bowl IV. Kansas City limited the Vikings to 67 yards on the ground and 239 in all. It was the last Super Bowl before the AFL-NFL merger.
context_page_description: The 1969 season was the Minnesota Vikings' ninth season in the National Football League and their third under head coach Bud Grant. With a 12–2 record, the best in the league, the Vikings won the NFL Central division title, to qualify for the playoffs for the second year in a row. There they beat the Los Angeles Rams in the Western Conference Championship Game, and the Cleveland Browns in the final NFL Championship Game before the merger with the American Football League. With these wins, the Vikings became the last team to possess the Ed Thorp Memorial Trophy, introduced 35 years earlier in 1934.
  However, Minnesota lost Super Bowl IV in New Orleans to the AFL champion Kansas City Chiefs in the final professional football game between the two leagues. It was the second consecutive Super Bowl win for the younger league.
  The season was chronicled for America's Game: The Missing Rings, as one of the five greatest NFL teams to never win the Super Bowl.
context_section_description: The 1969 season was the Minnesota Vikings' ninth season in the National Football League and their third under head coach Bud Grant. With a 12–2 record, the best in the league, the Vikings won the NFL Central division title, to qualify for the playoffs for the second year in a row. There they beat the Los Angeles Rams in the Western Conference Championship Game, and the Cleveland Browns in the final NFL Championship Game before the merger with the American Football League. With these wins, the Vikings became the last team to possess the Ed Thorp Memorial Trophy, introduced 35 years earlier in 1934. 
  However, Minnesota lost Super Bowl IV in New Orleans to the AFL champion Kansas City Chiefs in the final professional football game between the two leagues. It was the second consecutive Super Bowl win for the younger league.
  The season was chronicled for America's Game: The Missing Rings, as one of the five greatest NFL teams to never win the Super Bowl.
caption: The Vikings played the Chiefs in Super Bowl IV.
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