List of Minnesota Vikings head coaches

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This is a complete list of Minnesota Vikings head coaches. There have been seven head coaches for the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League (NFL). The Vikings franchise was founded in 1961 after the ownership group withdrew membership to the American Football League and agreed to join the NFL as an expansion team.

Bud Grant is the only coach to have more than one tenure and is to have won a NFL championship with the team, in 1969.[1] Grant is the all-time leader in games coached, wins, and in winning percentage with .622 (with at least one full season coached).[2] Les Steckel is statistically the worst coach the Vikings have had in terms of winning percentage, with .188.[3]

Of the seven Vikings coaches, two have been elected into the Pro Football Hall of Fame: Norm Van Brocklin and Bud Grant.[4] Mike Tice is the only former player to be head coach for the Vikings. The current coach is Brad Childress, who was hired on January 7, 2006.[5] Statistics correct as of December 30, 2007, after the end of the 2007 NFL season.

Contents

[edit] Key

      Elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame
      Spent entire professional head coaching career with Vikings

# Number of coaches[6]
GC Games Coached
W Wins
L Loses
T Ties
W–L % Win–Loss percentage


[edit] Coaches

# Name Term Regular Season Playoffs Awards
GC W L T W–L % GC W L
Minnesota Vikings
1 Norm Van Brocklin 1961–1966 84 29 51 4 .363 – – –
2 Bud Grant[7] 1967–1983 243 151 87 5 .635 22 10 12 AP Coach of the Year (1969)
Pro Football Weekly Coach of the Year (1969)
Sporting News Coach of the Year (1969)
UPI NFL Coach of the Year (1969)[8]
3 Les Steckel 1984 16 3 13 0 .188 – – –
— Bud Grant[7] 1985 16 7 9 0 .438 – – –
4 Jerry Burns 1986–1991 95 52 43 0 .547 6 3 3
5 Dennis Green 1992–2001 159 97 62 0 .610 12 4 8 UPI NFC Coach of the Year (1992)[8]
6 Mike Tice 2001–2005 65 32 33 0 .492 2 1 1
7 Brad Childress 2006–present 32 14 18 0 .438 – – –

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ Washington Redskins Championship History. NFLTeamHistory.com. Retrieved on 2008-03-18.
  2. ^ Bud Grant's Coaching Record. Pro Football Reference. Retrieved on 2008-03-18.
  3. ^ Les Steckel's Coaching Record. Pro Football Reference. Retrieved on 2008-03-18.
  4. ^ Hall of Famers by Franchise. Pro Football Hall of Fame Official website. Retrieved on March 18, 2008.
  5. ^ Childress brings no-nonsense attitude to Vikings. KARE 11. Retrieved on 2008-03-18.
  6. ^ A running total of the number of coaches of the Vikings. Thus any coach who has two separate terms as head coach is only counted once.
  7. ^ a b Grant's full coaching record with the Vikings is 259 regular season games coached with a record of 158–96–5 and a W–L percentage of .622. He is also 10–12 in 22 Playoff games.
  8. ^ a b NFL Coach of the Year Award. Hickok Sports. Retrieved on March 22, 2008.

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