1991 Minnesota Vikings season

1991 Minnesota Vikings season
General managerJeff Diamond
Head coachJerry Burns
Home fieldHubert H. Humphrey Metrodome
Results
Record8–8
Division place3rd NFC Central
Playoff finishDid not qualify
Pro BowlersTE Steve Jordan
G Randall McDaniel
DT Henry Thomas
AP All-ProsG Randall McDaniel (2nd team)
Uniform

The 1991 season was the Minnesota Vikings' 31st in the National Football League. They finished with an 8–8 record, improving on their 6–10 record from the previous season, and missed the playoffs for the second straight year. Head coach Jerry Burns retired at the end of the season.

Herschel Walker, going into his third year with Minnesota, went through another season of frustration and he was released following the season. In his two-and-a-half seasons with the Vikings, he failed to record a 1,000-yard season. The infamous trade that brought Walker to Minnesota never lived up to expectations and allowed the Dallas Cowboys to use two of the draft picks they received in the trade on Emmitt Smith and Darren Woodson, who became part of a dominant team that won three Super Bowls in the 1990s.