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2012 was certainly a banner year for the Minnesota Vikings. A team projected to finish with roughly three wins blew their expected win total out of the water as they notched double digit 10 victories on the year, beat high profile playoff teams throughout the season, and snuck into the playoffs. But hardly any of that matters when you consider how great of a year it was for Shirtless Vikings. The Shirtless Vikings phenomenon has slowly been growing to it's culmination in 2012. Occasionally we'd find old pictures of Daunte Culpepper without his shirt on, or a rookie Adrian Peterson in out-takes and various poses from his ESPN Magazine "The Body" issue photoshoot, but that was years ago. What about today? What about players we see on the regular, without their shirts on, showing their muscles, flexing like a boss, getting all sweaty and glistening in the summer sun, winking at school girls (and boys?) as they shoot water from Gatorade bottles into their open maws...
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