The Vikings, too, were reminiscent of the 1960s with their caps and white Winter Warriors helmets, when Minnesota won 12 or more wins in just 14 games in its first season in 1969, with the Vikings late in Bud Grant’s third season as a team Head coaches played 12:2. Coincidentally, that season also featured a winning streak of seven or more games (12) and was the only other time Minnesota opened a season at the New York Giants.

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

How did each of these decades begin, you may ask?

In 1961, the Vikings earned their first victory in franchise history at home against Chicago, in a 37-13 final in which, as on Monday, Minnesota scored the first 10 points of the game.

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 this song and more during its halftime show at US Bank Stadium on Monday.

And in 2001, the Minnesota Twins selected Joe Mauer with the first overall pick. Mauer — a St. Paul native 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 before Monday’s game -Singing.