The Vikings and Steelers have played a total of 16 regular season games against each other. Minnesota leads the all-time series with nine wins against seven losses, but Pittsburgh was victorious in the most important meeting between the teams, a 16-6 win in Super Bowl IX.

The Vikings have also never won at Heinz Field, granted, they’ve only had two opportunities. Minnesota played at Heinz for the first time in the 2001 season, the first year the Steelers called it home. After falling behind 21-3 the Vikings rallied back with two fourth quarter touchdown passes from Todd Bouman. There just wasn’t enough Bouman Magic in the air to complete the comeback and the Steelers won 21-16.

Brett Favre and the Vikings took a 6-0 record into Heinz Field during the magical ’09 season. They would not leave town with the undefeated mark in tact. Two defensive touchdowns powered Pittsburgh to a 27-17 win and gave the Vikings their first blemish of the year.

The most recent matchup took place in the 2013 season when both teams took 0-3 records overseas to London’s Wembley Stadium. The Vikings won in exciting fashion by a score of 34-27, with Everson Griffen sealing the win by sacking Ben Roethlisberger and forcing a fumble recovered by Kevin Williams.

Griffen getting a chance to do the sack daddy is never surprising. What is surprising about the box score from that day is wide receiver Jerome Simpson going off for 124 yards on seven catches.

Maybe that means we’ll see Laquon Treadwell go off for the first time in his career on Sunday.