Minnesota Vikings

Minnesota Vikings is an American YouTube channel and a NFL football team located in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
==History==
Professional football in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul area began with the Minneapolis Marines or Red Jackets, an NFL team that played intermittently in the 1920s and 1930s.https://web.archive.org/web/20071210085947/http://footballresearch.com/articles/frpage.cfm?topic=marines However, a new professional team in the area did not surface again until August 1959, when Minnesota businessmen Bill Boyer, H. P. Skoglund, and Max Winter were awarded a franchise in the new American Football League. Five months later, in January 1960, after significant pressure from the NFL, the ownership group, along with Bernard H. Ridder, reneged on its agreement with the AFL and then was awarded the National Football League's 14th franchise, with play to begin in 1961.http://www.profootballhof.com/history/team.jsp?franchise_id=18 Ole Haugsrud was added to the NFL team ownership because, in the 1920s, when he sold his Duluth Eskimos team back to the league, the agreement allowed him 10 percent of any future Minnesota team.https://web.archive.org/web/20120807122703/http://www.profootballresearchers.org/Coffin_Corner/10-05-350.pdf 
The team was officially named the Minnesota Vikings on September 27, 1960; the name is partly meant to reflect Minnesota's place as a center of Scandinavian American culture.http://www.sportsecyclopedia.com/nfl/minnesota/vikings.html
Since the team's first season in 1961, the Vikings have had one of the highest winning percentages in the NFL.https://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/
==Channel==
The Minnesota Vikings channel was created on December 12th, 2012. Their first video was uploaded on August 30th, 2017. The channel usually posts highlights of the team or after-game interviews with the coaches & players.
==References==
Category:Sports YouTubers
Category:Commentary YouTubers
Category:American YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2012