1962 Minnesota Vikings season

The 1962 season was the Minnesota Vikings' second in the National Football League. Under head coach Norm Van Brocklin, the team finished with a 2–11–1 record that still stands as the franchise's worst season record in terms of winning percentage, both by today's method of calculation (.179) and the method used at the time (.154), in which ties were not counted as games played. The Vikings have won at least three games in every season since.

1962 Draft

 * undefined The Vikings traded their 1st-round selection (2nd overall) to the New York Giants in exchange for QB George Shaw.
 * undefined The Vikings traded their 2nd-round selection (17th overall) and 11th-round selection (142nd overall) to Cleveland for DT Jim Prestel, DE Jim Marshall, LB Dick Grecni, RB Jamie Caleb, RB Billy Gault and DT Paul Dickson.
 * undefined The Vikings traded their 5th-round selection (58th overall) to the New York Giants for RB Mel Triplett, TE Bob Schnelker and OT Bob Schmidt.
 * undefined The Vikings traded their 7th-round selection (86th overall) to Philadelphia for TE Jerry Reichow.
 * undefined The Vikings traded their 10th-round selection (129th overall) to Cleveland for DE Bob Denton.

Schedule
Note: Intra-conference opponents are in bold text.

Pro Bowl
Second-year halfback Tommy Mason was the only Viking voted to the East–West Pro Bowl game, played January 13, 1963, at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and won by the East 30–20.

Team leaders
Note that sack totals from 1960 to 1981 are considered unofficial by the NFL