Dating to their Jan. 3, 2016, win at Lambeau Field to snatch the NFC North title from the Packers' grasp, the Vikings are 5-1-1 in their past seven games against their biggest rivals.
To find a stretch of that much sustained Vikings success against the Packers, you'd have to go back to a streak that began before Brett Favre was the Packers' quarterback and continued to his early days in Green Bay, before he'd helped make the team into the standard-bearer it became for so long in the NFC Central and North divisions.
While the Vikings' tie against the Packers earlier this year makes direct comparisons a little tricky, the last time Green Bay beat Minnesota just once in a seven-game stretch came from Dec. 2, 1990, to Dec. 19, 1993, as the Vikings feasted on lesser lights such as Anthony Dilweg and Mike Tomczak at the beginning of the run before beating Favre in his first three starts against the Vikings.
BEN GOESSLING
