Minnesota Sports Teams
We love our Minnesota sports teams! It's easy to get caught up in the enthusiasm as one season moves to the next and we cheer on one team after another. Minnesota has an abundance of sports teams at the college, semi-pro and professional level. There is wonderful support for both men's and women's Minnesota sports teams. Whatever your favorite Minnesota sport, you can get on board with it here.
Minnesota Football
Minnesota Vikings Football
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The Vikings football team was formed in 1960 and played their first game--an exhibition game---against the Dallas Cowboys on August 5, 1961.
Nicknamed "The Purple People Eaters" in the 1970's, the Minnesota Vikings have played in three Super Bowl games: 1974, 1975 & 1977. They have yet to achieve a win in the Super Bowl.
Present Minnesota Vikings owner, Zygi Wilf, hopes to see both a Super Bowl win and a new stadium for the Vikings.
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University of Minnesota Golden Gophers Football
The University of Minnesota football team, the Minnesota Golden Gophers, compete in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision and the Big Ten Conference. One of the state's favorite Minnesota sports teams, the Gophers create excitement for us every year.
The Golden Gophers will be back to playing on campus when the new TCF stadium opens in the fall of 2009.
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The Minnesota Vixen Women's Football Team
The Minnesota Vixen is the oldest professional women's football team in the United States. Founded in 1998, they were members of the original 1999 Barnstorming Tour.
The Independent Women's Football League (“IWFL”) has announced that the Minnesota Vixen™ have been awarded a full membership license and will join the league's roster of teams for the 2009 season.
A 2000 PBS special on women's football introduced many of us to the sport. Through challenges and difficulties over the next ten years this tenacious league has remained determined to offer exciting women's football to Minnesota and the nation.
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Minnesota Baseball
Minnesota Twins Baseball
Our major league baseball team, the Minnesota Twins came to Minnesota in 1961 from Washington D.C. where they were known as the Washington Senators.
The Twins made it to the World Series in 1965, 1987, and 1991, winning the series in both 1987 and 1991.
The Twins play their home games at the Metrodome in Minneapolis, however will soon move into their new stadium, Target Field.
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Saint Paul Saints Baseball
The St. Paul Saints are a Northern League team in the American Association. The Saints play their home games at Midway Stadium in St. Paul. The team was founded in 1993 and won the Northern League Championship in 1993, 1995, 1996, and 2004.
In their early days, the Saints served as a farm club for the Yankees, Cardinals and Dodgers and their major rival was the Minneapolis Millers.
Ila Borders, the first female pro pitcher ever, pitched for the Saint Paul Saints in 1997.
Visit the Saint Paul Saints Official Web Site
Minnesota Basketball
Minnesota Timberwolves Basketball
The Minnesota Timberwolves are a National Basketball Association team that was founded in 1989. This marked the return of professional basketball to the Twin Cities for the first time since the Minneapolis Lakers departed for Los Angeles in 1960.
The Timberwolves play their home games at the Target Center in Minneapolis.
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Minnesota Lynx Women's Basketball
The Minnesota Lynx Women's National Basketball Association team was founded in 1999. The Lynx made the WNBA playoffs in 2003 and 2004.
The Lynx play their home games at Target Center in Minneapolis.
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Minnesota Hockey
Minnesota Wild Hockey
The Minnesota Wild National Hockey League team was founded in 2000. They are one of the reasons Minnesota is called "the state of hockey."
The Minnesota Wild play their home games at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul.
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Minnesota Whitecaps Women's Hockey
The Minnesota Whitecaps are a professional women's ice hockey team. The Whitecaps are an all women's team that plays in the National Women's Hockey League.
The Whitecaps are another of our female Minnesota sports teams that add to the long tradition of both genders actively participating in Minnesota sports.
Visit Minnesota Whitecaps Official Web Site
Minnesota Soccer Teams
Minnesota Thunder Soccer
The Minnesota Thunder are a USL First Division team founded in 1992 as an amateur men's soccer team. They joined the USL, the second tier of the American Soccer Pyramid in 1994.
The Thunder currently play at the National Sports Center in Blaine, Minnesota, which is about 20 miles north of downtown Minneapolis.
The team has a development team, Rochester Thunder, which plays in the USL Premier Development League, and a sister organization, the Minnesota Lightning, who play in the women's USL W-League.
The Thunder play their home games at the National Sports Center in Blaine, Minnesota.
Visit Minnesota Thunder Official Web Site
Minnesota Lightning Womens' Soccer
The Minnesota Lightning is a senior women's hockey team founded in 2006. The Lightning is a member of the Women's Hockey Association of Minnesota's (WHAM) C1 Division and associated with USA Hockey.
The Lightning annually plays a 30-game schedule, competing against teams throughout the state of Minnesota. Yet another in the list of female Minnesota sports teams.
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Minnesota sports teams provide a lot of fun for Minnesota visitors and residents alike. Buy some tickets and take your family and your friends out to the games!
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