First Vikings preseason game is in 118 days

Home games against the Bills and Chargers will be on Friday nights.

April 14, 2012 at 4:42AM
Vikings fans (Jim Anderson/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

The Vikings' preseason opponents were announced earlier this month, and the times and dates for the games were firmed up today.

The Vikings will play at San Francisco on Friday, Aug. 10 at 8 p.m. (Central time).

Back-to-back home games follow against Buffalo (7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 17) and San Diego (7 p.m., Friday, Aug. 24).

The preseason ends with a Thursday night game at Houston on Aug. 30 at 6 p.m. Central time.

The regular season schedule's dates and times will be announced on Tuesday night. The team will have home and away games with Green Bay, Detroit and Chicago. It will have road games at Seattle, St. Louis, Washington, Houston, Indianapolis and home games with Tampa Bay, Arizona, San Francisco, Tennessee and Jacksonville.

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Chris Miller supervises coverage of professional sports teams. He has been at the Minnesota Star Tribune since 1999 and is a former sports editor of the Duluth News-Tribune and the Mesabi Daily News.

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