I know I'll be down-voted for this, but, Tarkenton was the reason or Vikes failures in BIG games. Yes, he was good as an underdog QB, but every time Vikes were faves in a playoff/super Bowl, Tark would come up LAME!
Chuck Foreman was the greatest multi-purpose running back of all time. He was only five rushing yards short of winning the never heard of "Triple Crown" of running backs. In 197 6, he led the NFC in 'receiving yards', 'points scored', and just five yards short of 'most rushing yards', behind Jim Otis of the Cardinals. Who in all the NFL has ever come so close to winning such a "Triple Crown". NO ONE!!!
They were excellent , no question. Podolak was an outstanding open field runner ( underrated ) Non however , come close to Foreman. He was extraordinary .@@keithrissolo7437
I'm now in the 48th as a VIKING. You know how tough it was for me to miss the Kick-Off on Pacific Time Zone on Sunday's & you're in Church; hating every damn second of it..... By the time we got home from church, the East Cost game where deep in the 4th quarter. For many seasons, I would miss 3 quarters of Football, & the second game on TV was the damn Dallas Cowboys. I couldn't stand Dallas. My beloved Mom had a crush on Coach Tom Landry. The very 1st time I ever saw a Pro Team play on TV, it was Detroit @ Minnesota. It was dark outside, snowing hard. The players were covered in mud & some had blood on their pants. On Defense, my Vikes looked like dragons with smoke coming out of their mouths, due to the cold weather breaths. I feel in Love with Minnesota. Keep in mind, I'm in Tucson, AZ, where it never snows, much less gets cold in the Winter. Now, my 2 Grandsons are VIkings, along with my 2 kids. When my daughter was doing her Medical Residency in Chicago, for 3 years, we all would attend a game @ Soldier Field to the snarls & stares of every one! SKOL***SKOL***SkOL! We have bet the entire Farm Equipment on Kirk Cousins. We will regret it, mark my words. Respectfully written, Santiago Murillo, Esq.
Great comment! I was a little luckier. We lived smack dab in between Chicago and Milwaukee during the 70s and the Bears and Packers were so awful then that between them they must have had a lot of blacked out games, because I remember watching the Vikings just about every week. When we moved back to Minnesota in 1977, we were so far in the sticks that we could only get one channel on tv...an NBC affiliate. How ironic. Finally back in Minnesota and couldn't watch the Vikings.
Minnesota was originally a charter AFL franchise. They pulled out when the NFL offered them a better deal(and opportunity) to come to the NFL. Hence the reason the Oakland Raiders were born. After Minnesota jumped to the NFL, the AFL selected Oakland just months before the season began.
that was all part of the AFL NFL war, the NFL did that to try and destroy the AFL, Dallas Cowboys were formed to compete wtih the Dallas Texans and destroy them, Texans moved to Kansas City and became the Chiefs.
Also, Vikings owner Max WInter almost returned the franchise to the NFL whei it was told at first that, like the Dallas Cowboys, there would not be an expansion draft...just a list of players unwanted by the other teams. Winter's group complained so strongly that the Vikings were finally included in the 1961 draft.
Well, I have been a Cowboy fan since I watched them win their first title against the Dolphins as a kid in the early 70's. However, the other team I loved watching as a kid was the Vikings. I loved watching Tarkenton, Foreman, Gilliam, Rashad, Sammy White, Tinglehoff, Ron Yary and of course, the Purple People Eaters of Eller, Page and company. Although I bleed the Silver and Blue, if my Boys are not playing them I always cheer for the Vikings. I remember cheering for the Vikes against the Steelers...hated the Steelers..still do lol. Vikings were a damn good squad in the 70's and probably should have won at least one title.
If Tarkenton had been there earlier, they probably would have won at least one i believe. Tarkenton had absolutely no offensive line, during those few years he spent with the Giants in NY, and yet was amazing to watch. Vikes had great teams in that era, but just had the misfortune of going up in those super bowls against the great teams of Stram, Don Shula, Noll, and Madden. Bud Grant deserves more credit than he's given for those teams.
After reading your comment, I have a little less bile for the Cowboys...just a little. Lifelong Vikings fan and I have a dear friend who claims the Cowboys as her second favorite team after the Vikes. I figure she must have been busy playing with her Christmas Barbies during the Hail Mary game, because NOTHING would have ever gotten me to cheer for the Cowboys after that game, unless they were playing the Steelers in the Super Bowl...of course.
I think Minnesota viking best chance to win a superbowl was against Kansas city chief superbowl:: bud grant should have prepared Minnesota viking team better
i watched the vikes when they used to practice here in Bemidji MN 1960. although we have never won the SB we always had a good team after the first few years. it is tough nowadays simply because of the business factor
Best Viking team ever put together.1998 Minnesota Vikings. Yep! They blew it. None of the Superbowl teams were even competitive. In the Superbowl. Only Buffalo can shed more tears.
Originally, Minnesota before they were called the Vikings, were an AFL franchise, but conceded when owner Max Winter was offered an NFL franchise instead by the league. Also, I think Jim Marshal is long overdue to be enshrined at Canton.
I hear it the Jim marshall low pro bowl games: it very easy to go to pro bowl today ;; nobody want go tonpro bowl; today it easier being a substitute pro bowl player
Was scrolling through the comments to see if anyone would point this out. George Halas and the NFL offered Winters a team simply to screw the AFL over.
@@lesgobrandon2454 They try and did the same to Lamar Hunt by placing the Cowboys in Dallas after he started the Texans before they became the Kansas City Chiefs, even after denying Hunt a Dallas franchise.
I grew up a few blocks from the old Met Stadium. I'd throw the football around with my buddies and we could hear the roar of the crowd when the Vikings scored. I thought that was pretty cool.
I grew up with the vikings . To some people they were an expansion team . But theyd been around ten years before i was born. And i loved the snow games. Being canadian joe kapp and bud grant were men i could relate and look up to.. i never cared for the dome years as much as those early days tho
Yeah, they were gritty on both sides of the ball. And, never seen a special teams like they had. They were VERY aggressive on special teams. They certainly belonged in the Central Division and dominated it for a long time.
1964 was the best yr with van brocklin and tarkenton. But they couldn't build on it in 65 or 66 and that era ended with NVB out and franny traded to the giants.
Still can't believe Kapp wasn't amongst the 50 greatest Vikings. He's one of their most popular players ever . Here he's wearing 50 greatest Vikings ....wonder how he got it 0:37
purple sword 2 Have no way of knowing ofcourse.But I read somewhere it may have been an inside job??Just gotta wonder what where the conditions he left Minnesota. He proclaimed 40-60 refuses the MVP award then want's more money.?
@lloydkline1518 this team was really fun to watch the way the NFL is you never know especially at that team. Coaches really go all out with game plans and can prepare to take away players strengths
Life long Packer fan here, no love for the Vikings. When I was a kid I used to watch Bud Grant’s teams dominate the league and especially the Packers. Only respect for Bud, stand up guy.
The hit by Karl Kassulke on Greg Landry at the 17:28 mark was actually from the 1970 season, November 15, 1970 to be exact. The Lions played the Vikings tough but gave up a late a TD and lost 24-20. The Lions could not beat the Vikings during that time.
What a burst by Mason !! Not even Lenny Lyles ( track man ) could catch him until the very end . Debilitating knee injury cut what should have been a great career 7:09
IMO Tommy and Lenny Moore were the best all-around running backs in the Western Conference for two, three years (pre-Gale Sayers). Tommy did amazing things behind a not-very-good-at-all offensive line. (Same is true of Tarkenton actually.) Bad injury to Tommy, he was still good but didn't have that classic burst between Mick Tingelhoff and Milt Sunde anymore. If I were to rank the best Viking running backs ever (having seen them all in their day) I'd say: 1. Chuck Foreman. 2. Tommy Mason. 3. Adrian Peterson.
Growing up in North Central Iowa, during the 60's and 70's, I was a die hard Vikings fan. They are perhaps the best team to never win a Super Bowl. We had high hopes for them when Brett Favre played for them...but that ended prematurely.
The vikings couldn't stop the elite running games of Pittsburgh, Miami or oakland in tarkentons super bowls. The KC loss in 70 was kapp. The chiefs were a very good team and deployed a power "I" offense that the vikings had trouble with. The chiefs D roughed up joe kapp pretty good too. Very disappointing since the vikes were a very competitive team from 68-78ish.
It wasn't Kapp who lost SB IV to Kansas City (14-2) (Kapp's two Int's were off receivers hands) but rather, dreadful special teams play (especially punter Bob Lee) creating miserable field position - and it was the 5 total turnovers ruining the day. The Chiefs scored 10 of their points in 4:00 of the 2nd quarter after getting the ball on the Vikes 44 (FG) & 19 (TD). Meanwhile, the Vikings were starting deep in their own territory. Against Miami (14-2), by the time the Vikings figured out how to stop Csonka and Morris, it was 17-0 & deep in the 2nd quarter. Still, with 1:00 left in the 1st half, the Vikings were still alive until Reed fumbled on the Miami 6 (and who can say for certain what a TD and receiving the 2nd half kickoff could have done?) Against Pittsburgh (12-3-1), it was again field position and FIVE total turnovers. A crucial Pitt fumble after a 30 yard gain was recovered by MN but later was declared "no fumble" after a meeting of officials and wasreturned to Pitt at the MN 28 (Pitt later scored a TD.) A Siemon interception was overturned on an "off-sides" penalty and Foreman fumbling on 1st and goal at Pitts 5 yard line were other disasters. Against Oakland (15-1), McClanahan fumbles on the Oakland 2 after a blocked punt and you could almost see the "Oh NO, not again!" coming from the Viking sideline. It was unusual for the Viking "D" that it couldn't get off the field on 3rd down -the down that most of Oakland's "game changer/big plays" occurred. And lest we forget, Oakland was 15-1 coming in - their loss being a 48-17 "what the hell?" loss to the Patriots (who they then beat in the playoffs) so they were the best Raider team that Madden ever had. You lose the turnover and field position battle in football and you lose the game... and the Vikings lost those battles in every single Super Bowl they appeared in. The Viking teams of that era created and lived off of "turnovers." However, in the Super Bowls it was the Vikings who gave the ball away. In 4 games, the Vikings were a MINUS 12 in the turnover department. MINUS 12?!? If you give your opponent that many chances and it won't matter HOW good you are, you're going to lose (see 2009 NFC Championship Vikings). The good news is that the teams the Vikings lost to are now historically considered "Great Teams" of their era, thus showing the Vikings of that era were indeed also an outstanding team (as is shown by their comparative W-L records.) The bad news is that those Super Bowl losses have caused it to take decades for the Bud Grant era Vikings to begin to receive the acclaim that they had always deserved.
Definitely a great hit, but Karl Kassulke's hit on Greg Landry in 1970 at 17:28 is one I will always remember. Devastating hit, and of course another loss for my Lions.
I LOVED " The Vikes" since 1969...( I was 6) ..I loved them till I stopped watching the NFL IN 2010...Because of all their bullshit about $ and they way the game is played now! The Vikes broke my heart always, they should have won at least 1 of those 4 Super Bowls! FUCK, I am still pissed! I have many great memories of some of those great teams of the 70's!
I know how ya feel. It all started for me in '69. I was 6, too. But to let other's greed separate you from the dream... well, that's a shame that had to happen. I'm also like you, in that all of those heart-breakers still have the sting that they had back then. I've got a truckload of fond memories, especially from the '70's. And it's a damn shame that the players are pretty much, all about the money these days. But hey... it's still Vikings football. Wouldn't trade it for anything. C'mon back. You may not realize what you're about to miss. You know you want to.
I hear you Nicky, I too loved the Vikes in the seventies and that Hail Mary touchdown against the Cowboys tore my heart out. Tarkenton and Foreman were so exciting back in the day, you couldn't wait for Sunday to watch football and the Purple People Eaters!!!! God, I miss them days!!!!
❤️ Minnesota viking 1960s/ 1970s ; it like Michigan football fans losing rosebowl 1970s to usc& pac ten football champion:: getting over pretty woman lay one night stand
As a lifelong vikes fan I sometimes wonder why, seeing as they've never accomplished the ultimate football goal. Watching this vid brings back all the reasons. Skol vikes!!!
I will never understand why the Vikings didn't re-sign up Joe Kapp for that 1970 season. Damn, I think the defense was even better in 70 than it was in 69 but no Kapp and no offense in 70, 71.
It was similar to the George Allen and Sonny Jurgensen situation. Kapp was too much a free spirit and had the respect of the entire team, too much of a leader. Grant most likely thought they could win with their diefense regardless who they'd put under center. With Cuozzo, he had a better chance of getting things done his way.
Because Kapp stunk - he couldn't throw a spiral if his mama's life depended on it. Tough guy, yes, but a CFL reject. Vikes only weakness in those days were QB, no matter who played they all stunk. Bob Lee, Kapp, Cuozzo, Tark.
Kapp wanted a huge contract and played the 69 season without one. Loved Kapp but he really wasn't a very good qb. Career completion rate of only 48.9%. 40 tds and 64 ints. QB rating was 55.1. Vikes made the right call.
@@raddmann99 Fran tarkenton is in NFL football 🏈 hall of fame canton; Ohio :: I thinknit more bud grant fault; like Kansas city chief Minnesota viking should prepare for that superbowl:: :: getting replacing Joe Kapp with Gary cuozzo ;; Minnesota viking needs better offensive players running 🏃♂️ back offensive linemen other than Ron yary; mick tingelhoff:: etc etc
Dude, what dumb comment you just made. CFL reject ?? He left after an HOF career. Like everyone else, he was looking to make a few more bucks..You're riding the same bandwagon everyone else is on. How does throwing a spiral determine if one is good or not ?? Hell, Bob Avellini threw a spiral as did Ryan Leaf !! @@bishlap
The Vikings defense actually allowed only 105 points. There where 4 tadditional td's not given up by the defense . Two ints. return for tds', one fumble and one kickoff return 21:36
All things considered, and it's a task and a half comparing cross generational athletes, what separates Tarkenton from Steve Young, Michael Vick etc. is the separation he got from defenders. Check this out, NO ONE near him 6:40
Fran was great, no doubt, but D-linemen of that era were nowhere near as athletic as they were even 10 years later, let alone when Young and Vick played. I'd bet a week's pay that half of them were even smokers.
That 69' Vikings team was a determined, old school, powerfully built team...I can remember them beating a damned-good Los Angeles Rams team, a team many had favored to go all the way that year, 23-20...But the Vikings had the answer to Gabriel and the Rams....I had actually thought my Cowboys would be playing them for the NFL Championship, and they had been favored, but the saavy, tough Browns demolished them in Dallas 38-14.....Probably just as well, because the Vikings mauled the Browns 27-7...I think the Vikings, with their basic, rugged play, had no real idea what they were up against facing the Kansas City Chiefs, what a powerhouse the Chiefs were coming from the AFL....But Strams' Chiefs were physically as tough as the Vikings, and a more complex smarter football team, no wonder the Vikings got their butts kicked....
They didn’t get their “butts kicked” - if you saw the game you’d know they lost because they turned the ball over FIVE TIMES. They certainly weren’t “outsmarted” - if you think that, it’s because that’s how NFL Films “framed” the game in their highlight show. They always wanted to make the winner look like they were one of the best teams ...ever. What else could they say? That “The Chiefs won because the Vikings couldn’t hold onto the ball?” That doesn’t make ANYONE look good - and after the merger, it was all about perception. Remember how the very next game (Opening game - 1970) for both teams was Vikings/Chiefs in Bloomington? Vikings 27 Chiefs 10. No, the Chiefs weren’t better, more complex or smarter...but they won the game that everyone saw.
@J Justice .... As a Viking fan since 1963, the ‘69 team is near and dear to my heart. When people chide me about never being NFL Champs, I always retort, “you’re wrong we were NFL Champions in 1969”. SKOL Vikings. If you’re old enough to remember the game, how did you handle the 1998 NFC Championship Game. I was literally on the phone booking a flight to Miami when Anderson missed, I threw the TV out the window seconds later, much to my poor wife’s dismay.
@@michaelleroy9281 That is true, and IMO their defense was even stronger than the 69' version, but Cuozzo was not as dynamic as Kapp was, and they got knocked out by SF in the first round, and no one saw that coming....
@@jjustice8825 With all due respect IMO the Chiefs WERE the more complete, better team...They were strong everywhere and had more balance, and there was a reason why they beat the AFL and NFL's best that year....They had a powerful defense all their own....The Chiefs NEVER got the respect that the Raiders or Vikings got, and the Vikings never won a Super Bowl.....The Chiefs absolutely dismantled them---in THAT game, the most important of the season, so I give them their due respect...The Chiefs, really going back to the early years of their league, even when they were the Texans under Stramm, we winners...They could play with and beat the best in either league, barring their first SB loss to Green Bay, but they were even in that game until the 3rd QTR....
Twice in the video reference is made as to how Bud Grant built his team to win in the upper Midwest's during inclement weather late in the season . Somehow, I think this holds a key as to why the Vikings poor performances in the Superbowls. Remember SB IX was the coldest SB played till then. It was the closest the Vikings ever got...coincidence?
If I recall the Dolphins played in real cold post season games just twice. They lost to Buffalo in 1990 or 91. Then in the 72 AFC Championship game they beat the Steelers.By no means was it Metropolitan stadium cold though. Don't think the Raiders ever did. The Rams lost to Greenbay in 67 and then we know in Minnesota. There was that 49ner game. May have been in the minuses.
It was definitely a factor. I would just tweak your comment in one small way - it was Bud Grant and Jim Finks building the team to win in the Upper Midwest in December. These two guys were the best coach/GM combination of their era. Too bad Max Winter, owner, didn't see fit to pay Finks what he was worth.
6400az Actually the Raiders beat the Browns, 14-12, in what became known as the Red Right 88 game, in the 1980 AFC Divisional Playoffs on there way to their 2nd franchise SB win (and last SB win in Oakland, 83 team won the SB in L.A.). What's notable about also was that it was the coldest NFL playoff game in 13 years since the famous Ice Bowl between GB and Dallas. Ironically, the very next year, the record was broken in the Freezer Bowl 1981 AFC Championship Game in Cincinnati between Bengals/Chargers. Also ironic at least is that San Deigo played a heart-stopping, classic Epic in Miami game in OT, 41-38 in extreme heat and humidity of South Miami to Kellen Winslow getting frostbite in his big right toe, Dan Fouts growing ice sickles on his beard and mustache and FB Hank Bauer describing the extreme cold wind chill as like a thousand knives stabbing you all at once when you felt it.
The Vikes should have never moved indoors, they always had a huge home advantage in the cold weather. Remember Bud Grant not allowing heaters on the sideline? Grant thought it gave the Vikes a psychological edge... it probably did as the opponent was too busy huddling near the heaters to pay attention to the game. Nowadays the players hardly ever play in the snow/cold. The NFL has become a sissy league, no hard hits, no playing in bad weather/domed stadiums, penalty flags if you breathe on a QB or a wide receiver... a damn shame what the NFL has become.
@@lloydkline1518 made a lot of money betting the Vikes as as a small fave or dog when a playoff caliber team came to Muni Stadium in cold/snowy weather. Wish I could say the same right now as very few teams play in the cold, at least the type of MINNESOTA cold! PEACE, Lloyd.
Since football went towards the dollar is why we would have never gotten state support if it wasn't indoors since you can make more money hosting other events,i thought they should made usbank retractable roof
Many people felt that way, the ordinarily powerful Colts were 8-5-1 in 1969, for many teams that would have been a fine season, but for the Colts it was like a losing one....Besides the Packers with their dominance in the 60's the Colts ran neck and neck with them in talent and victories, but they always seem to falter in the big dance(s)...The Colts were a powerful team always...
NFL franchise? More like AFL franchise and Winter, Rozelle and the NFL stole the franchise from the AFL, but because of this, the Raiders were born and the AFL got its revenge not once, but twice. Kansas City (owned by Lamar Hunt, whom Winter stabbed in the back) blasted the Vikings in the Super Bowl and later the Raiders destroyed them in 1977. Karma.
The best franchise of the late 60's to mid 70's to NEVER win a Super Bowl. The lack of a big time QB was the reason. Joe Kapp was a bum and Tark was a side-show freak, not a great NFL caliber passer. This team had everything else, RB's, WR'S OL, DL LB's and DB's. Alan Page, Carl Eller, Mick Tingelhoff etc., all hall of famers along w/ Chuck Foreman, Jeff Siemon, Bobby Bryant, Karl Kassulke, Gene Washington, Dave Osborn, Bill Brown, Jim Marshall, Bob Grim, Sammy White, Ahmad Rashad, Ron Yary, John Gilliam. So many good--great players in those years.
He only held every major passing record when he retired. Their downfall was relaxed game planning and their inability to make adjustments on either side of the ball once games started getting away from them. I don't know what kind of input Bud or Burnsie had on a play-by-play basis as far as play calling went, but in the era where QBs called a lot of the offense, when you watch games from the 70s, it's easy to see when Fran's play calling lacked imagination.
@JBSptfn Agree that the Vikes ran into some GREAT teams, The vikes themselves were a GREAT 70's Team(s), but that's my complaint about Tark, yeah, he'd beat a better team occasionally(like most QB's) but The Vikes were never going to beat a team like The 70's Raiders SB squad or any team of that magnitude w/ THAT LITTLE SCRAMBLING gimmick QB.... and rarely on the road.
Born and raised in Detroit & a Lions fan, I've ALWAYS been jealous of the Vikings.
GREAT & underrated dominating the '70's
❤️ Minnesota viking esprcially 1960s //1970s
I know I'll be down-voted for this, but, Tarkenton was the reason or Vikes failures in BIG games. Yes, he was good as an underdog QB, but every time Vikes were faves in a playoff/super Bowl, Tark would come up LAME!
Man I love those old vikings players like family.
Chuck Foreman was the greatest multi-purpose running back of all time. He was only five rushing yards short of winning the never heard of "Triple Crown" of running backs. In 197 6, he led the NFC in 'receiving yards', 'points scored', and just five yards short of 'most rushing yards', behind Jim Otis of the Cardinals.
Who in all the NFL has ever come so close to winning such a "Triple Crown". NO ONE!!!
I think Ed Podolak was very good to, and what about Tom Matte???
They were excellent , no question. Podolak was an outstanding open field runner ( underrated ) Non however , come close to Foreman. He was extraordinary .@@keithrissolo7437
Great clips. More Vikings highlights from the early years than I've ever seen in one place. Thanks for sharing!
I'm now in the 48th as a VIKING. You know how tough it was for me to miss the Kick-Off on Pacific Time Zone on Sunday's & you're in Church; hating every damn second of it..... By the time we got home from church, the East Cost game where deep in the 4th quarter. For many seasons, I would miss 3 quarters of Football, & the second game on TV was the damn Dallas Cowboys. I couldn't stand Dallas. My beloved Mom had a crush on Coach Tom Landry. The very 1st time I ever saw a Pro Team play on TV, it was Detroit @ Minnesota. It was dark outside, snowing hard. The players were covered in mud & some had blood on their pants. On Defense, my Vikes looked like dragons with smoke coming out of their mouths, due to the cold weather breaths. I feel in Love with Minnesota. Keep in mind, I'm in Tucson, AZ, where it never snows, much less gets cold in the Winter. Now, my 2 Grandsons are VIkings, along with my 2 kids. When my daughter was doing her Medical Residency in Chicago, for 3 years, we all would attend a game @ Soldier Field to the snarls & stares of every one! SKOL***SKOL***SkOL! We have bet the entire Farm Equipment on Kirk Cousins. We will regret it, mark my words. Respectfully written, Santiago Murillo, Esq.
Great comment! I was a little luckier. We lived smack dab in between Chicago and Milwaukee during the 70s and the Bears and Packers were so awful then that between them they must have had a lot of blacked out games, because I remember watching the Vikings just about every week. When we moved back to Minnesota in 1977, we were so far in the sticks that we could only get one channel on tv...an NBC affiliate. How ironic. Finally back in Minnesota and couldn't watch the Vikings.
Thank you for posting this. GO VIKINGS!!!
1:42 - That was the coolest field/stadium in the NFL.
Minnesota was originally a charter AFL franchise. They pulled out when the NFL offered them a better deal(and opportunity) to come to the NFL. Hence the reason the Oakland Raiders were born. After Minnesota jumped to the NFL, the AFL selected Oakland just months before the season began.
elwin38 That's right. And both turned out to be stellar franchises.
elwin38 THANK YOU FOR THE INFORMATION!
that was all part of the AFL NFL war, the NFL did that to try and destroy the AFL, Dallas Cowboys were formed to compete wtih the Dallas Texans and destroy them, Texans moved to Kansas City and became the Chiefs.
elwin38 I did not know that, thanks for posting !
Also, Vikings owner Max WInter almost returned the franchise to the NFL whei it was told at first that, like the Dallas Cowboys, there would not be an expansion draft...just a list of players unwanted by the other teams. Winter's group complained so strongly that the Vikings were finally included in the 1961 draft.
Well, I have been a Cowboy fan since I watched them win their first title against the Dolphins as a kid in the early 70's. However, the other team I loved watching as a kid was the Vikings. I loved watching Tarkenton, Foreman, Gilliam, Rashad, Sammy White, Tinglehoff, Ron Yary and of course, the Purple People Eaters of Eller, Page and company. Although I bleed the Silver and Blue, if my Boys are not playing them I always cheer for the Vikings. I remember cheering for the Vikes against the Steelers...hated the Steelers..still do lol. Vikings were a damn good squad in the 70's and probably should have won at least one title.
If Tarkenton had been there earlier, they probably would have won at least one i believe. Tarkenton had absolutely no offensive line, during those few years he spent with the Giants in NY, and yet was amazing to watch. Vikes had great teams in that era, but just had the misfortune of going up in those super bowls against the great teams of Stram, Don Shula, Noll, and Madden. Bud Grant deserves more credit than he's given for those teams.
After reading your comment, I have a little less bile for the Cowboys...just a little. Lifelong Vikings fan and I have a dear friend who claims the Cowboys as her second favorite team after the Vikes. I figure she must have been busy playing with her Christmas Barbies during the Hail Mary game, because NOTHING would have ever gotten me to cheer for the Cowboys after that game, unless they were playing the Steelers in the Super Bowl...of course.
I think Minnesota viking best chance to win a superbowl was against Kansas city chief superbowl:: bud grant should have prepared Minnesota viking team better
ED White ?
@@owhitemule Minnesota viking offensive linemen late 1960s/1970s
You gotta love Joe Kapp and his inner kid . The Rams game was as thrilling, epic game as there was. Listen how he describes it 23:47
i watched the vikes when they used to practice here in Bemidji MN 1960. although we have never won the SB we always had a good team after the first few years. it is tough nowadays simply because of the business factor
Best Viking team ever put together.1998 Minnesota Vikings. Yep! They blew it. None of the Superbowl teams were even competitive. In the Superbowl. Only Buffalo can shed more tears.
Bengals are starting to get into that category
Originally, Minnesota before they were called the Vikings, were an AFL franchise, but conceded when owner Max Winter was offered an NFL franchise instead by the league.
Also, I think Jim Marshal is long overdue to be enshrined at Canton.
I hear it the Jim marshall low pro bowl games: it very easy to go to pro bowl today ;; nobody want go tonpro bowl; today it easier being a substitute pro bowl player
Was scrolling through the comments to see if anyone would point this out. George Halas and the NFL offered Winters a team simply to screw the AFL over.
@@lesgobrandon2454 They try and did the same to Lamar Hunt by placing the Cowboys in Dallas after he started the Texans before they became the Kansas City Chiefs, even after denying Hunt a Dallas franchise.
I grew up a few blocks from the old Met Stadium. I'd throw the football around with my buddies and we could hear the roar of the crowd when the Vikings scored. I thought that was pretty cool.
This is viking territory in Minnesota cold outdoor weather now indoor we need outdoor football back in Minnesota
I grew up with the vikings . To some people they were an expansion team . But theyd been around ten years before i was born.
And i loved the snow games. Being canadian joe kapp and bud grant were men i could relate and look up to.. i never cared for the dome years as much as those early days tho
Frank is the revolution of the Quaterback position
Yeah, they were gritty on both sides of the ball. And, never seen a special teams like they had. They were VERY aggressive on special teams. They certainly belonged in the Central Division and dominated it for a long time.
What an awesome compilation of old time plays. Go to 8:45 for some wr grit you won’t see in todays game
1964 was the best yr with van brocklin and tarkenton. But they couldn't build on it in 65 or 66 and that era ended with NVB out and franny traded to the giants.
I came out the womb wearing purple. I was raised wearing purple. I will wear purple til the die I day, when I will be buried in purple. SKOL for life!
I believe Joe Kapp identifies more with being Mexican but his father was German. Joe Kapp is a character
1968 they were NFL Central Div Champs, in 1969 they were NFL Champions. The leagues hadn't combined yet.
great stuff randy just got it. awesome!
I just saw this man !
The footage from 61-66 is cool. Loved to see more of it.
Yes mostly,Some into 69 too.
Still can't believe Kapp wasn't amongst the 50 greatest Vikings. He's one of their most popular players ever . Here he's wearing 50 greatest Vikings ....wonder how he got it 0:37
Agreed he's gotta be top 50.
purple sword 2 Have no way of knowing ofcourse.But I read somewhere it may have been an inside job??Just gotta wonder what where the conditions he left Minnesota. He proclaimed 40-60 refuses the MVP award then want's more money.?
Kapp Joe Kapp good enough quarterback to take Minnesota viking to a superbowl
@lloydkline1518 this team was really fun to watch the way the NFL is you never know especially at that team. Coaches really go all out with game plans and can prepare to take away players strengths
Life long Packer fan here, no love for the Vikings. When I was a kid I used to watch Bud Grant’s teams dominate the league and especially the Packers. Only respect for Bud, stand up guy.
Go Pack!
3:36 - Fran Tarkenton "I didn't drink at that time..." That was before he lost three Super Bowls.
The hit by Karl Kassulke on Greg Landry at the 17:28 mark was actually from the 1970 season, November 15, 1970 to be exact. The Lions played the Vikings tough but gave up a late a TD and lost 24-20. The Lions could not beat the Vikings during that time.
Oh man the Vikings totally owned the Lions during the Grant years. Think we beat the 12 straight times at one point.
Fantastic
that flying knee was no accident
What a burst by Mason !! Not even Lenny Lyles ( track man ) could catch him until the very end . Debilitating knee injury cut what should have been a great career 7:09
IMO Tommy and Lenny Moore were the best all-around running backs in the Western Conference for two, three years (pre-Gale Sayers). Tommy did amazing things behind a not-very-good-at-all offensive line. (Same is true of Tarkenton actually.) Bad injury to Tommy, he was still good but didn't have that classic burst between Mick Tingelhoff and Milt Sunde anymore. If I were to rank the best Viking running backs ever (having seen them all in their day) I'd say: 1. Chuck Foreman. 2. Tommy Mason. 3. Adrian Peterson.
Tommy Mason was fun to watch, for a short time he was as good a back as there was in either league.
Growing up in North Central Iowa, during the 60's and 70's, I was a die hard Vikings fan. They are perhaps the best team to never win a Super Bowl. We had high hopes for them when Brett Favre played for them...but that ended prematurely.
Other than the Bills
#10 "Sir" Francis was a tough, smart player who really should have WON 1 of those fucking Super Bowls! Also #11 Joe Kapp, what a tough bastard!
The vikings couldn't stop the elite running games of Pittsburgh, Miami or oakland in tarkentons super bowls. The KC loss in 70 was kapp. The chiefs were a very good team and deployed a power "I" offense that the vikings had trouble with. The chiefs D roughed up joe kapp pretty good too. Very disappointing since the vikes were a very competitive team from 68-78ish.
It wasn't Kapp who lost SB IV to Kansas City (14-2) (Kapp's two Int's were off receivers hands) but rather, dreadful special teams play (especially punter Bob Lee) creating miserable field position - and it was the 5 total turnovers ruining the day. The Chiefs scored 10 of their points in 4:00 of the 2nd quarter after getting the ball on the Vikes 44 (FG) & 19 (TD). Meanwhile, the Vikings were starting deep in their own territory.
Against Miami (14-2), by the time the Vikings figured out how to stop Csonka and Morris, it was 17-0 & deep in the 2nd quarter. Still, with 1:00 left in the 1st half, the Vikings were still alive until Reed fumbled on the Miami 6 (and who can say for certain what a TD and receiving the 2nd half kickoff could have done?)
Against Pittsburgh (12-3-1), it was again field position and FIVE total turnovers. A crucial Pitt fumble after a 30 yard gain was recovered by MN but later was declared "no fumble" after a meeting of officials and wasreturned to Pitt at the MN 28 (Pitt later scored a TD.) A Siemon interception was overturned on an "off-sides" penalty and Foreman fumbling on 1st and goal at Pitts 5 yard line were other disasters.
Against Oakland (15-1), McClanahan fumbles on the Oakland 2 after a blocked punt and you could almost see the "Oh NO, not again!" coming from the Viking sideline. It was unusual for the Viking "D" that it couldn't get off the field on 3rd down -the down that most of Oakland's "game changer/big plays" occurred. And lest we forget, Oakland was 15-1 coming in - their loss being a 48-17 "what the hell?" loss to the Patriots (who they then beat in the playoffs) so they were the best Raider team that Madden ever had.
You lose the turnover and field position battle in football and you lose the game... and the Vikings lost those battles in every single Super Bowl they appeared in. The Viking teams of that era created and lived off of "turnovers." However, in the Super Bowls it was the Vikings who gave the ball away. In 4 games, the Vikings were a MINUS 12 in the turnover department. MINUS 12?!? If you give your opponent that many chances and it won't matter HOW good you are, you're going to lose (see 2009 NFC Championship Vikings).
The good news is that the teams the Vikings lost to are now historically considered "Great Teams" of their era, thus showing the Vikings of that era were indeed also an outstanding team (as is shown by their comparative W-L records.) The bad news is that those Super Bowl losses have caused it to take decades for the Bud Grant era Vikings to begin to receive the acclaim that they had always deserved.
Here's the best shot in the whole film... 17:43
That was some hit, think that was Vikings Tom Hall ?
Definitely a great hit, but Karl Kassulke's hit on Greg Landry in 1970 at 17:28 is one I will always remember. Devastating hit, and of course another loss for my Lions.
17:27 - Karl Kassulke's hit on Greg Landry..........
Karl was a nasty hitter and a great ballhawk.
I LOVED " The Vikes" since 1969...( I was 6) ..I loved them till I stopped watching the NFL IN 2010...Because of all their bullshit about $ and they way the game is played now! The Vikes broke my heart always, they should have won at least 1 of those 4 Super Bowls! FUCK, I am still pissed! I have many great memories of some of those great teams of the 70's!
I know how ya feel. It all started for me in '69. I was 6, too.
But to let other's greed separate you from the dream... well, that's a shame that had to happen.
I'm also like you, in that all of those heart-breakers still have the sting that they had back then.
I've got a truckload of fond memories, especially from the '70's. And it's a damn shame that the
players are pretty much, all about the money these days.
But hey... it's still Vikings football. Wouldn't trade it for anything.
C'mon back. You may not realize what you're about to miss.
You know you want to.
The great #44 RB Chuck Foreman belongs in the HOF!
I hear you Nicky, I too loved the Vikes in the seventies and that Hail Mary touchdown against the Cowboys tore my heart out. Tarkenton and Foreman were so exciting back in the day, you couldn't wait for Sunday to watch football and the Purple People Eaters!!!! God, I miss them days!!!!
...I remember that too! Very sad.
❤️ Minnesota viking 1960s/ 1970s ; it like Michigan football fans losing rosebowl 1970s to usc& pac ten football champion:: getting over pretty woman lay one night stand
The win over the Browns in 1965 was considered a huge upset
As a lifelong vikes fan I sometimes wonder why, seeing as they've never accomplished the ultimate football goal. Watching this vid brings back all the reasons. Skol vikes!!!
Loved em
Except for my Colts getting stomped, I really enjoyed this.
I will never understand why the Vikings didn't re-sign up Joe Kapp for that 1970 season. Damn, I think the defense was even better in 70 than it was in 69 but no Kapp and no offense in 70, 71.
It was similar to the George Allen and Sonny Jurgensen situation. Kapp was too much a free spirit and had the respect of the entire team, too much of a leader. Grant most likely thought they could win with their diefense regardless who they'd put under center. With Cuozzo, he had a better chance of getting things done his way.
Because Kapp stunk - he couldn't throw a spiral if his mama's life depended on it. Tough guy, yes, but a CFL reject. Vikes only weakness in those days were QB, no matter who played they all stunk. Bob Lee, Kapp, Cuozzo, Tark.
Kapp wanted a huge contract and played the 69 season without one. Loved Kapp but he really wasn't a very good qb. Career completion rate of only 48.9%. 40 tds and 64 ints. QB rating was 55.1. Vikes made the right call.
@@raddmann99 Fran tarkenton is in NFL football 🏈 hall of fame canton; Ohio :: I thinknit more bud grant fault; like Kansas city chief Minnesota viking should prepare for that superbowl:: :: getting replacing Joe Kapp with Gary cuozzo ;; Minnesota viking needs better offensive players running 🏃♂️ back offensive linemen other than Ron yary; mick tingelhoff:: etc etc
Dude, what dumb comment you just made. CFL reject ?? He left after an HOF career. Like everyone else, he was looking to make a few more bucks..You're riding the same bandwagon everyone else is on. How does throwing a spiral determine if one is good or not ?? Hell, Bob Avellini threw a spiral as did Ryan Leaf !! @@bishlap
We have never been a Champion. That hurts.
The Vikings defense actually allowed only 105 points. There where 4 tadditional td's not given up by the defense . Two ints. return for tds', one fumble and one kickoff return 21:36
Now that's a useful post. Thank you.
Hey, occasionally my contributions are significant.....world is a better place now ,)
Just wanna give a big purple shoutout to my vikings peeps @6400az @MassVt.and all. Go vikes!! Training camp coming up fellas.
Alright man, same to you !
Hey bro thanx just updated my phone so i have a diff handle. Go purple.
Think this is the first time I see the Vikings without their home jerseys while playing AT home 8:31
Noticed that too and was suprised.
@@purplesword2754 That was 1964 they wore white jerseys at home for the entire season and the first quarter against the Lions
Personally, I think that's the best uniform they ever fielded.
Did you know that the Vikings were nearly an AFL team?
They left for the NFL, their place was taken by the Oakland Raiders
This covers the 69 season, so where do I find the next video?
Joe Kapp is no Terry Bradshaw or Roger Staubach but he was tough and I like his style of play. He was one of the first Hispanic QBs
All things considered, and it's a task and a half comparing cross generational athletes, what separates Tarkenton from Steve Young, Michael Vick etc. is the separation he got from defenders. Check this out, NO ONE near him 6:40
Fran was great, no doubt, but D-linemen of that era were nowhere near as athletic as they were even 10 years later, let alone when Young and Vick played. I'd bet a week's pay that half of them were even smokers.
They never bring up the fact that Max Winter stood up and humiliated the AFC to get an NFL team.
That 69' Vikings team was a determined, old school, powerfully built team...I can remember them beating a damned-good Los Angeles Rams team, a team many had favored to go all the way that year, 23-20...But the Vikings had the answer to Gabriel and the Rams....I had actually thought my Cowboys would be playing them for the NFL Championship, and they had been favored, but the saavy, tough Browns demolished them in Dallas 38-14.....Probably just as well, because the Vikings mauled the Browns 27-7...I think the Vikings, with their basic, rugged play, had no real idea what they were up against facing the Kansas City Chiefs, what a powerhouse the Chiefs were coming from the AFL....But Strams' Chiefs were physically as tough as the Vikings, and a more complex smarter football team, no wonder the Vikings got their butts kicked....
They didn’t get their “butts kicked” - if you saw the game you’d know they lost because they turned the ball over FIVE TIMES. They certainly weren’t “outsmarted” - if you think that, it’s because that’s how NFL Films “framed” the game in their highlight show. They always wanted to make the winner look like they were one of the best teams ...ever. What else could they say? That “The Chiefs won because the Vikings couldn’t hold onto the ball?” That doesn’t make ANYONE look good - and after the merger, it was all about perception. Remember how the very next game (Opening game - 1970) for both teams was Vikings/Chiefs in Bloomington? Vikings 27 Chiefs 10. No, the Chiefs weren’t better, more complex or smarter...but they won the game that everyone saw.
@J Justice .... As a Viking fan since 1963, the ‘69 team is near and dear to my heart. When people chide me about never being NFL Champs, I always retort, “you’re wrong we were NFL Champions in 1969”. SKOL Vikings. If you’re old enough to remember the game, how did you handle the 1998 NFC Championship Game. I was literally on the phone booking a flight to Miami when Anderson missed, I threw the TV out the window seconds later, much to my poor wife’s dismay.
1970 they were just as good 12-2 just like 1969
@@michaelleroy9281 That is true, and IMO their defense was even stronger than the 69' version, but Cuozzo was not as dynamic as Kapp was, and they got knocked out by SF in the first round, and no one saw that coming....
@@jjustice8825 With all due respect IMO the Chiefs WERE the more complete, better team...They were strong everywhere and had more balance, and there was a reason why they beat the AFL and NFL's best that year....They had a powerful defense all their own....The Chiefs NEVER got the respect that the Raiders or Vikings got, and the Vikings never won a Super Bowl.....The Chiefs absolutely dismantled them---in THAT game, the most important of the season, so I give them their due respect...The Chiefs, really going back to the early years of their league, even when they were the Texans under Stramm, we winners...They could play with and beat the best in either league, barring their first SB loss to Green Bay, but they were even in that game until the 3rd QTR....
Vikings will not win a super bowl until they go back out doors and play real football again
1968 NFC Central Divison Champs? NFC not till 1970 season.
Bud Grant also played for the Lakers in the NBA.
Won a nba championship with them to
On the run , under pressure. Pass right on the money 18:35
Paul Krause was a great athlete.
Enuf of the nostalgia, news flash, 11/3/19 Today the Vikings,...lost to KC., COUSINS WAS OFF TARGET, AT LEAST 10 TIMES. HE LET ME DOWN... WAY DOWN!
Is there a part 2?
The Hilgenberg Hit 21:38
Twice in the video reference is made as to how Bud Grant built his team to win in the upper Midwest's during inclement weather late in the season . Somehow, I think this holds a key as to why the Vikings poor performances in the Superbowls. Remember SB IX was the coldest SB played till then. It was the closest the Vikings ever got...coincidence?
You have to wonder how teams like Oakland and Miami would have fared if they had to win a title game in extremely cold weather..
If I recall the Dolphins played in real cold post season games just twice. They lost to Buffalo in 1990 or 91. Then in the 72 AFC Championship game they beat the Steelers.By no means was it Metropolitan stadium cold though. Don't think the Raiders ever did. The Rams lost to Greenbay in 67 and then we know in Minnesota. There was that 49ner game. May have been in the minuses.
It was definitely a factor. I would just tweak your comment in one small way - it was Bud Grant and Jim Finks building the team to win in the Upper Midwest in December. These two guys were the best coach/GM combination of their era. Too bad Max Winter, owner, didn't see fit to pay Finks what he was worth.
Yes, that's true.. I guess what goes around comes around as Jim Finks did the same to Joe Kapp, basically ruining the Vikings SB chances in 70 and 71.
6400az Actually the Raiders beat the Browns, 14-12, in what became known as the Red Right 88 game, in the 1980 AFC Divisional Playoffs on there way to their 2nd franchise SB win (and last SB win in Oakland, 83 team won the SB in L.A.). What's notable about also was that it was the coldest NFL playoff game in 13 years since the famous Ice Bowl between GB and Dallas. Ironically, the very next year, the record was broken in the Freezer Bowl 1981 AFC Championship Game in Cincinnati between Bengals/Chargers. Also ironic at least is that San Deigo played a heart-stopping, classic Epic in Miami game in OT, 41-38 in extreme heat and humidity of South Miami to Kellen Winslow getting frostbite in his big right toe, Dan Fouts growing ice sickles on his beard and mustache and FB Hank Bauer describing the extreme cold wind chill as like a thousand knives stabbing you all at once when you felt it.
11:40 Van Brocklin was correct about one thing
The Vikes should have never moved indoors, they always had a huge home advantage in the cold weather. Remember Bud Grant not allowing heaters on the sideline? Grant thought it gave the Vikes a psychological edge... it probably did as the opponent was too busy huddling near the heaters to pay attention to the game. Nowadays the players hardly ever play in the snow/cold. The NFL has become a sissy league, no hard hits, no playing in bad weather/domed stadiums, penalty flags if you breathe on a QB or a wide receiver... a damn shame what the NFL has become.
Exactly
Bud grant alway said football players mind should be on the game not how cold it is
@@lloydkline1518 made a lot of money betting the Vikes as as a small fave or dog when a playoff caliber team came to Muni Stadium in cold/snowy weather. Wish I could say the same right now as very few teams play in the cold, at least the type of MINNESOTA cold!
PEACE, Lloyd.
Since football went towards the dollar is why we would have never gotten state support if it wasn't indoors since you can make more money hosting other events,i thought they should made usbank retractable roof
Met Stadium would have fallen down sometime before 2023 the place was falling apart before 1981 it's final season
Thought this was Samuel Adams the beer guy.
I wonder if Jim Marshalls wrong way run has kept he from the Hall of fame
They beat the Colts cause they weren't over the Super Bowll!!! Lol but love the outdoor Vikings over the lame dome ones anyday that was football !!!
Many people felt that way, the ordinarily powerful Colts were 8-5-1 in 1969, for many teams that would have been a fine season, but for the Colts it was like a losing one....Besides the Packers with their dominance in the 60's the Colts ran neck and neck with them in talent and victories, but they always seem to falter in the big dance(s)...The Colts were a powerful team always...
Serves them right for jumping to the NFL...the AFL (Kansas City) put it to them in SB IV.
16:44 He's knocked out, from a shot in the back of the ribs. Phew, that's sickening
Damn
nothing but heartbreak
Paul Krause = Harrison Smith
SKOL !!
How is Jim Marshall not in the Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio?
Because he ran the wrong way lol
I hear not enough all star games; Oakland raiders super bowl didn't hurt either
Today it very easy to go to probowl nobody want to go in pro bowl: easy get being substitute football player
Jim Marshall will be there eventually i hope before he dies the guy played at a great level never missed a game
Alan Page Carl Eller jim Marshall Vikings legendary defense fran the Man tarkenton
Tark..youve been hang in out with ol Lou Holtz too much I'm swimming in it!!!!!!I'm
Bills Vikings Lion's Browns amongst ones never won a superbowl
Tiny purple people eater
NFL franchise? More like AFL franchise and Winter, Rozelle and the NFL stole the franchise from the AFL, but because of this, the Raiders were born and the AFL got its revenge not once, but twice. Kansas City (owned by Lamar Hunt, whom Winter stabbed in the back) blasted the Vikings in the Super Bowl and later the Raiders destroyed them in 1977. Karma.
HORRIBLE THINGS TO DO!!!!!!
The best franchise of the late 60's to mid 70's to NEVER win a Super Bowl. The lack of a big time QB was the reason. Joe Kapp was a bum and Tark was a side-show freak, not a great NFL caliber passer. This team had everything else, RB's, WR'S OL, DL LB's and DB's. Alan Page, Carl Eller, Mick Tingelhoff etc., all hall of famers along w/ Chuck Foreman, Jeff Siemon, Bobby Bryant, Karl Kassulke, Gene Washington, Dave Osborn, Bill Brown, Jim Marshall, Bob Grim, Sammy White, Ahmad Rashad, Ron Yary, John Gilliam. So many good--great players in those years.
WTF are you talking about ? Tarkenton went to 9 pro bowls and is in the HOF.
@@raddmann99 Thank you! Tark was great and so was Kapp.
He only held every major passing record when he retired. Their downfall was relaxed game planning and their inability to make adjustments on either side of the ball once games started getting away from them. I don't know what kind of input Bud or Burnsie had on a play-by-play basis as far as play calling went, but in the era where QBs called a lot of the offense, when you watch games from the 70s, it's easy to see when Fran's play calling lacked imagination.
@JBSptfn Agree that the Vikes ran into some GREAT teams, The vikes themselves were a GREAT 70's Team(s), but that's my complaint about Tark, yeah, he'd beat a better team occasionally(like most QB's) but The Vikes were never going to beat a team like The 70's Raiders SB squad or any team of that magnitude w/ THAT LITTLE SCRAMBLING gimmick QB.... and rarely on the road.
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