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The Minnesota Vikings are an American football team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

The Vikings joined the National Football League (NFL) as an expansion team in 1960, and first took the field for the 1961 season.

The team competes in the National Football Conference (NFC) North division; before that, the Vikings were in the NFC Central, and before that they were in the NFL's Western Conference Central Division.

The team has played in four Super Bowl games, but lost each one.

The team plays its home games at U.S. Bank Stadium in the Downtown East section of Minneapolis.

Minneapolis–Saint Paul is a major metropolitan area built around the Mississippi, Minnesota and St. Croix rivers in east central Minnesota.

The area is commonly known as the Twin Cities after its two largest cities, Minneapolis, the city with the largest population in the state, and Saint Paul, the state capital.

It is an example of twin cities in the sense of geographical proximity.

Minnesotans living outside of Minneapolis and Saint Paul often refer to the two together (or the seven-county metro area collectively) as The Cities.

Minnesota (locally) is a state in the midwestern and northern regions of the United States.

Minnesota was admitted as the 32nd U.S. state on May 11, 1858, created from the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory.

The state has a large number of lakes, and is known by the slogan "Land of 10,000 Lakes".

Its official motto is L'Étoile du Nord (French: Star of the North).

Wisconsin is a U.S. state located in the north-central United States, in the Midwest and Great Lakes regions.

It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michigan to the northeast, and Lake Superior to the north.

Wisconsin is the 23rd largest state by total area and the 20th most populous.

The state capital is Madison, and its largest city is Milwaukee, which is located on the western shore of Lake Michigan.

The state is divided into 72 counties.

KMSP-TV, VHF digital channel 9, is a Fox owned-and-operated television station, licensed to Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.

KMSP-TV is owned by the Fox Television Stations division of 21st Century Fox, and operates as part of a television duopoly with WFTC (channel 29), the Minneapolis–Saint Paul area's MyNetworkTV station.

The two stations share studios located on Viking Drive in Eden Prairie, and KMSP's transmitter is located in Shoreview.