Dennis "Denny" Green is an American football

American football

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 head coach

Head coach

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 for the Sacramento Mountain Lions of the United Football League. During his National Football League

National Football League

The National Football League is the highest level of professional American football in the United States, and is considered the top professional American football league in the world. It was formed by eleven teams in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, with the league changing...

 career, Green coached the Minnesota Vikings

Minnesota Vikings

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 and Arizona Cardinals

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.

Green's best season in Minnesota was in 1998

1998 Minnesota Vikings season

1998 was the 38th year of season play for the Minnesota Vikings and the 79th regular season of the National Football League.The 1998 Minnesota Vikings became only the third team in NFL history to win 15 games during the regular season. That year, the Vikings high powered offense scored 556 points...

, when the record-setting Vikings finished 15–1 and set the NFL record for most points in a season (since broken by the 2007 New England Patriots

New England Patriots

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). However, the Vikings lost in the NFC Championship Game, 30–27 to the Atlanta Falcons

Atlanta Falcons

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 in overtime.