How did they come up with the name Minnesota Vikings?

In 1961 Bert Rose was elected as General Manager of the Minnesota Vikings , one of the first steps he took with the new franchise was to recommend to the Board of Directors that the club be nicknamed the "Vikings." He said a nickname should serve a dual purpose.

First, it should represent an aggressive person or animal imbued with the will to win.

Second, if possible, it is desirable to have it connote the region that the particular team represents, which was the heavily settled Scandinavian state of Minnesota, which "Vikings" scores well on both points. Nordic Vikings were a fearless race.

Following many years of victories in the British Isles and France, under Erik the Red, they sailed in open boats across the North Atlantic, seeking new territories and peoples to conquer. Their entire history was predicated by an aggressive desire to will and win. While Minnesota is populated by the descendants of settlers from many nations, the area has a rich Nordic lore, perhaps due to the mythology of Paul Bunyan and his Blue Ox, perhaps due to the preponderance of the 'sons' and 'sens' in the phone book. The Vikings, too, were Nordics; hence the name represents in a large part the solid stock of people who call Minnesota their home.

So how did they come up with the logo?

When Karl Hubenthal who was a sports cartoonist for the Los Angeles Times, he made the original drawing of the Viking logo in 1961 for Bert Rose, at the time, the General Manager of the Minnesota Vikings. The logo itself depicts the fierce warrior from Scandinavia--what is now Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. What people of the era and who lived there referred to the warriors as Norsemen, or Northmen.

So what exactly are the Vikings colors?

NFL Properties, the league's licensing arm, states that,.Antoine 269 (the official color registration number) is Viking Purple.

The gold is Pantone 1235." But the colors don't exactly match because the material used to make the jerseys absorbs the dye color differently than the helmets. Unlike in the old days, when jerseys