Adding together all their regular-season and postseason games — the games that have thrilled us and tortured us and sewed stitches into Minnesota's fabric for 62 seasons — the Vikings will play their 1,000th game Saturday.
Over the course of each decade, we tracked the team's wins and losses into a running total of games above or below a .500 record, including both regular season and playoff games. Wins gained a point, losses dropped one, and ties, more common in the 1960s than today, did neither. When the line drops below zero, it indicates a losing record, but above zero means they were winning more that decade.