The 2003 Minnesota Vikings season was the team's 43rd year in the National Football League. The Vikings gained 6,294 yards on offense, by far the most in the league; however the team 416 points were only 6th-best in the NFL.
The Vikings won their first six games of the 2003 season, then lost their next four games, after which they alternated wins and losses for the remainder of the season. Green Bay won the division at 10-6, while the Vikings finished 9-7. The Vikings set a new mark for futility during the season when they lost to every 4-12 team (Giants, Chargers, Raiders, and Cardinals) during their 3-7 finish. Curiously, the Vikings went 4-2 against 2003 playoff teams, but only 5-5 against teams with losing records. The Vikings were 6-2 at home, and 8-3 in domes overall. (They only played one cold-weather game, a loss to Chicago in Week Fifteen.)
The Vikings were officially eliminated from postseason contention when a touchdown reception on 4th-and-long by Arizona Cardinals receiver Nate Poole handed the Vikings a dramatic last-second 18-17 loss in their final game.
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“Let us have a good many maples and hickories and scarlet oaks, then, I say. Blaze away! Shall that dirty roll of bunting in the gun-house be all the colors a village can display? A village is not complete, unless it have these trees to mark the season in it. They are important, like the town clock. A village that has them not will not be found to work well. It has a screw loose, an essential part is wanting.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)