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This is an original watercolor painting of the 1973 Minnesota Vikings uniform.
Click on image to enlarge$450.00 (includes shipping in North America)
This original, one-of-a-kind watercolor painting of the 1973 Minnesota Vikings purple uniform is the original artwork that was used in the creation of this Minnesota Vikings uniform evolution print and tens of thousands of other Minnesota Vikings products that have been sold across North America. This original piece of art was painted by artist Bill Band for Maple Leaf Productions Ltd.
Some History
Fran Tarkenton returned to the Vikings in 72 after having spent 5 seasons with the NY Giants, and joined an already lethal team whose defensive line was known as the Purple People Eaters because of its toughness and ability to devour opposing quarterbacks.Though the 72 team featured Carl Eller, Alan Page, Jim Marshall and Gary Larsen the Purple People Eaters - the Vikings still only fared 7-7 in the regular season. The 1973 season, however, was a different story! The Vikings lost only 2 games in the regular season as they went 12-2. Then in the playoffs they beat the Redskins 27-20 and the Cowboys right in Dallas 27-10, thus advancing to the Super Bowl for the 2nd time in 4 years.
But once again, they came up short in the Super Bowl and the powerful Dolphins won Super Bowl VIII 24-7.
This purple home jersey (the alternate purple home jersey discussed in the 1969 purple painting) is a different take from the traditional Vikings home uniforms. Gone are the sleeve stripes and yellow trim around the numbers leaving basic, white numbers on a plain, purple jersey. The belt color has been switched over to purple from white.
