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Well, here are the Vikings’ 10 curses, all mostly active. 1. The “Beat the Vikings, Get a Lombardi” Curse. Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports. The Curse in Short: In the last six seasons, five teams that won the Super Bowl beat the Vikings along the way. The Super Bowl curse is a phrase that refers to phenomena that may occur in the National Football League where the team whose stadium will host the upcoming Super Bowl either misses the playoffs or suffers early postseason elimination. 2023: 49ers lose to Cousins and the Vikings in Week 7, go on to lose the Super Bowl to the Chiefs; So while the curse has morphed from simply making it to the Super Bowl to now being about winning The Curse in Short: In the Super Bowl Era, the Vikings have the NFL’s third-best regular season win percentage — but no Super Bowl wins. Thanks to Minnesota’s spiffy 13-4 record in 2022, the Vikings surpassed the Patriots and Ravens via win percentage since 1966, the dawn of the Super Bowl era. A crazy Super Bowl "curse" stat relating to Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousins has come t o light, and it's bad news for two NFC teams. Fans on social media jumped on it after the 49ers blew a double-digit lead, falling to the Kansas City Chiefs 25-22 in the Super Bowl. The Kirk Cousins curse lives on. The original “curse” Therefore, a new or modified Kirk Cousins Curse is present: no club has ever gone on to win a Super Bowl in the same season when losing to a Cousins-led squad. Fans on social media jumped on it after the 49ers blew a double-digit lead, falling to the Kansas City Chiefs 25-22 in the Super Bowl. The original “curse” was that no team that lost to A curious fact about Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousins: Until Sunday, no team that Cousins had ever defeated during the regular season had gone on to reach the Super Bowl. But the 49ers did it Kirk Cousins joined SI host Claudette Montana on Radio Row in New Orleans to talk about his NFL future and his thoughts on Super Bowl LIX. The Vikings, after winning the Thorp Trophy, went on to face the American Football League champion the Kansas City Chiefs in the AFL-NFL World Championship Game (which is more commonly referred to as Super Bowl IV). The spirit of Ed Thorp was rumored to have cursed the Vikings, since they lost the trophy that was named in his honor. It seemed like the curse was going to continue for another year with the 49ers trailing by 17 points going into halftime. However, they outscored the Lions 27-7 over the final 30 minutes of the game, and they earned a 34-31 victory to reach the Super Bowl for the eighth time in their franchise’s history. Although ABC wasn’t broadcasting Super Bowl IX between the Vikings and the Pittsburgh Steelers on Jan. 12, 1975, Cosell was in New Orleans to film a segment to be aired on the network the day Blemishes and misgivings aside, the Vikings’ Super Bowl odds are still reason for some optimism. Having a 6% shot as the season heads into its final half is a nice spot to be, especially since most foresaw plenty of turbulence in 2024. In 2020, Cousins got to cast his curse on a divisional rival in Green Bay. The Packers rolled to a 13-3 record in the regular season, but one of those three losses was a 28-22 loss to the Vikings None of them made the Super Bowl, so the curse is 5 for 5. 2021-22 Super Bowl: Los Angeles-Cincinnati. The 2021 Vikings went 8-8 behind Cousins, with wins over the Seahawks, Lions, Panthers No team had ever lost to a squad quarterbacked by Kirk Cousins and later reached the Super Bowl — until last Sunday. The “Kirk Cousins Curse” Can Still Live On. The Detroit Lions were up 24-7 over the San Francisco 49ers, a team favored by a touchdown entering the matchup. But then the 49ers rallied, erased the Lions’ 24-7 lead in about Vikings curse: 25 years ago today. Take a knee, wide left, the most painful loss And, if the Vikings reached the Super Bowl, the plan was for me to go to Miami, assist with the coverage, then The last team to suffer from the coin toss curse was the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl 54 (2020). The 49ers lost to the Kansas City Chiefs, who staged an impressive comeback in the second half, especially behind the stellar performance of Patrick Mahomes. Superstition was a highlight as head coach Kyle Shanahan’s team came close to winning. As Vikings fans mourn Sunday's heartbreaking loss to the Seahawks, the little-known curse of the Ed Thorp Memorial Trophy lives on. the Vikings lost four Super Bowls in the 1970s, and looked
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