Both these teams uniforms are pure basic perfection, smeared with just the right amount of mud.  No modern colors or fancy graphics can make them look better.

As a Viking fan since 1963, I remember this game like it was played last week.  I was at old Metropolitan Stadium, sitting in the press box with my uncle, a young sports reporter for the Minneapolis Star Tribune. In the tear stained stigmata that is being a Viking fan, this was one of my proudest moments..  The “Purple Gang” went on to beat Cleveland, for the NFL Championship, but ultimately succumbed to Kansas City in Super Bowl IV.  However, for that one year 1969, the final season before the merger, I can proudly say to this day that my Vikings were NFL Champions.

I wish someone anyone could show the actual broadcast of this game even just the second half it's a forgotten classic

The Vikings have had many great teams since '69 however THIS Viking team was so much fun and exciting to watch - especially the D and Joe Kapp.

Sad to know Willie Ellison died about a year ago. He was a fine RB. RIP

Joe Kapp is still my all time favorite Viking on my all time favorite Viking team. I was 12 years old and that season cemented my fan loyalty for life.

Two great defensive lines. Two classic old school QB's. Still remember watching these with my dad. I was 5. I can't stand the NFL over the last decade.

Always loved the music from the old NFL films. And the Saturday recap of the previous weeks games with Pat Summerall andTom Brookshire

Gabriel and Kapp the combined grace and beauty of a Lugwrench.

I can’t get enough of watching this game! I was just a kid and this game left such an impression on me. Maybe the best game in Vikings history.

That music at 6:40...still gives me chills some 50 yrs later. The horns mixed with the strings, stirring up a dramatic scene.

I'm a Tom Landry-era Dallas Cowboys fan, and IMO this particular game is one of the best in NFL history.
Two of the best and toughest teams, particularly the Met Stadium-Joe Kapp-Bill Brown Vikings......to ever play pro football.
I'm sad to say that the excitement and aura that pro football used to have is gone..... right along with Metropolitan Stadium.
God bless our pro football heroes from a bygone era.🏈

The Vikings had the Rams number in the late 60s  thru the 70s, they flat out knew how to beat them it didn't matter if it was in the regular season or playoffs.

Those uniforms of both teams looked so cool.

Back when they played in the weather.

Man I remember that game! My first Vikings playoff game when I was 11 years old, and when the Super Bowl ended that year I cried!! I kept a scrapbook from that season filled with photos from the Monday morning Minneapolis Tribune, and then I spent the seventies decade going up and down the Minnesota Vikings rollercoaster, so many great highs and those four HUGE LOWS!! Still watching and cheering and suffering today 12-30-2025 and have been for the past 56 years! 😢😂👍❤️

This WAS football...Real turf - Real weather - Real hitting/running/passing...REAL MEN!

A heartbreaking loss that  still burns me up today.

One of the greatest games ever played. Of course, in those days, on any given Sunday, you could find "one of the greatest games ever played".

Remember this game, as if it were now....watched it during the afternoon that cold day.....I was 10 years old....{Indian Joe Kapp#11} 🏈