1973 Minnesota Vikings season
Week Date Opponent Result Record Venue Attendance
1 September 16 Oakland Raiders W 24-16 1-0 Metropolitan Stadium 44,818
2 September 23 at Chicago Bears W 22-13 2-0 Soldier Field 52,035
3 September 30 Green Bay Packers W 11-3 3-0 Metropolitan Stadium 48,176
4 October 7 at Detroit Lions W 23-9 4-0 Tiger Stadium 49,549
5 October 14 at San Francisco 49ers W 17-13 5-0 Candlestick Park 56,438
6 October 21 Philadelphia Eagles W 28-21 6-0 Metropolitan Stadium 47,478
7 October 28 Los Angeles Rams W 10-9 7-0 Metropolitan Stadium 47,787
8 November 4 Cleveland Browns W 26-3 8-0 Metropolitan Stadium 46,722
9 November 11 Detroit Lions W 28-7 9-0 Metropolitan Stadium 47,911
10 November 19 at Atlanta Falcons L 14-20 9-1 Atlanta Stadium 56,519
11 November 25 Chicago Bears W 31-13 10-1 Metropolitan Stadium 46,430
12 December 2 at Cincinnati Bengals L 0-27 10-2 Riverfront Stadium 57,859
13 December 8 at Green Bay Packers W 31-7 11-2 Lambeau Field 53,830
14 December 16 at New York Giants W 31-7 12-2 Yale Bowl 70,041
Regular season -- Schedule
The 1973 season was the Minnesota Vikings' 13th in the National Football League. With a 12-2 record, the Vikings regained the NFC Central title after having gone 7-7 the previous year. They started the season 9-0 and looked a threat to the previous year's Dolphins' record of a perfect season before losing to the Atlanta Falcons and Cincinnati Bengals in their next three games. Their narrow 10-9 win over the Los Angeles Rams constituted the last time until 1997 that the last two unbeaten NFL teams played each other. The Vikings defeated the Washington Redskins 27-20 in the NFC Divisional Playoff game at home and went on to upset the Dallas Cowboys 27-10 in Irving, Texas to win the NFC Championship, before losing 24-7 to the Miami Dolphins in Super Bowl VIII at Rice Stadium in Houston.