Vikings win streak hits 7 after ‘MNF’ win over Bears

The Vikings also tipped their caps and white Winter Warrior helmets to the 1960s, when the first season Minnesota earned 12 or more wins in just 14 games came in 1969, when the Vikings went 12-2 in the late Bud Grant’s third season as the team’s head coach. Coincidentally, that season also featured a winning streak of seven or more games (12) and was the only other time Minnesota has opened a season at the New York Giants.

Finally, the Vikings accomplished something on Monday that they haven’t done since the late 2000s. Although this season is the 25th^th time in team history that Minnesota has played three consecutive home games in a season, only the 10^th time in franchise history and the first since 2009 that the Vikings have won all three consecutive home games.

What started each of these decades, you might ask?

In 1961, the first Vikings win in franchise history was at home against Chicago, in a 37-13 finale in which Minnesota scored the first 10 points of the game, just as it did on Monday.

In 1990, American rap artist Vanilla Ice rose to fame with his debut album “To the Extreme”, which included his hit single “Ice Ice Baby”. Vanilla Ice performed that song and more during his halftime show at US Bank Stadium on Monday.

And in 2001, the Minnesota Twins drafted Joe Mauer with the first overall pick. Mauer – a native of St. Paul — who played his entire 15-year Major League Baseball career in Minnesota and was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame last July — sounded the Gjallarhorn and led the SKOL Chant before Monday’s game.