Welcome to the All-Time Favorite Viking Team series. We’re going through and voting by position for your favorite Viking players. There are no set criteria other than they played for the Minnesota Vikings.
The Minnesota Vikings are one of the more storied franchises in the National Football League. They have been around since 1961 and already have 15 players, coaches and personnel in the Pro Football Hall of Fame and they have multiple chances to make that happen in the class of 2025.
Matt Birk, a Minnesota native who attended Cretin-Derham Hall High School in St. Paul, played college football at Harvard before being drafted by the Minnesota Vikings in 1998.
After news broke on Friday afternoon that PJ Fleck is a top candidate for the suddenly open UCLA Bruins head coaching job, former Minnesota Vikings legend and St.