Walter Payton thrusts the football over his head in celebration during the Chicago Bears 1987 season, his last in the NFL. Payton added 533 rushing yards to his then-record setting 16,726 total ...

Replacement players with no NFL experience made about $5,000 a game and half a share of any playoff money. Vested veterans such as Adams made much more.

When NFL players went on strike in 1987, the MN Vikings were perhaps the least prepared team in the league. They waited until the last minute to field a roster of replacement players, and lost all ...

Watch the highlights from the Minnesota Vikings and the San Francisco 49ers in the 1987 NFC Divisional.

The Commanders were one of the NFL’s premier teams in the 1980s and early 1990s, winning it all under legendary coach Joe Gibbs in the 1982, 1987 and 1991 seasons.

The franchise had been in three measly playoff games from 1972 to 1987. All three were first-round losses (1981 to the Raiders, 1983 to the Raiders again, and 1986 to the Miami Dolphins).

1987 NFL strike still haunts ex-Giants coach Bill Parcells Then-Giants safety Kenny Hill pretends to unleash his dog, LA, at photographers as his striking teammates watch at Giants Stadium in East ...

In May of 1987 at the impressionable age of 16, I was privileged enough to have witnessed what, in my opinion and estimation, is the best NHL playoff series ever played between the Philadelphia ...

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After being a star in the USFL, Carter signed with the Minnesota Vikings and had himself a really nice career in the NFL. His biggest moment came in the 1987 playoffs when he took over.

In the 1987 playoffs, the Vikings were seeded last in the NFC at No. 5 and won a wild-card game at New Orleans . Then they went to San Fran and won.