The BIZARRE DRAMA Between Burger King and the 1974 Minnesota Vikings
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- Опубліковано 6 жов 2024
- Prior to the 1974 divisional round of the NFL playoffs between the Minnesota Vikings and the St. Louis Cardinals, the Vikings were having serious trouble selling out their home venue, Metropolitan Stadium. It was looking highly likely that this game was going to be blacked out. And then, an unlikely source came in and saved the day, with that source coming in the form of Burger King and the Home of the Whopper
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Members of the 1974 Vikings:
Fran Tarkenton
Mike Eischeid
Fred Cox
Bob Berry
Bobby Bryant
Joe Blahak
Paul Krause
Jeff Wright
Terry Brown
Jackie Wallace
Randy Polti
Bill Brown
Oscar Reed
Brent McClanahan
Dave Osborn
John Gilliam
Nate Wright
Chuck Foreman
Larry Marshall
Ed Marinaro
Jeff Siemon
Mick Tingelhoff
Fred McNeill
Amos Martin
Scott Anderson
Wally Hilgenberg
Matt Blair
Roy Winston
Ed White
Milt Sunde
Steve Lawson
Andy Maurer
Grady Alderman
Charles Goodrum
Doug Sutherland
Jim Marshall
Dave Boone
Ron Yary
Bob Lurtsema
Gary Larsen
Steve Riley
Sam McCullum
Carl Eller
Jim Lash
Stu Voigt
Steve Craig
John Holland
Alan Page
Doug Kingsriter
Bud Grant (head coach)
This is taking "have it your way" to another level!
Very Well Said! 👍
Correct 🤣🤣🤣🍔
whopper
u rule
I knew Alex would be here
@@TheAndiXFail you mean Herb
Chicken
WHOPPER WHOPPER WHOPPER WHOPPER JUNIOR DOUBLE TRIPLE WHOPPER
That's worse than if you did nothing but spike the ball into the ground on every single play
This guy ducks
At BK, have it your way!
impossible or bacon whopper i rule this day
Chicken Chicken Chicken Chicken
This one is gold. JG’s out here just casually telling Burger King/NFL stories from ~50 years ago.
Except that he spends half the video on backstory. I scroll to the halfway point, and then watch.
@@jimroscovius Backstory is what makes it interesting. Have it your way. ;-)
@jeffthechristian Some back story is fine, but I don't need to hear about the entire season.
Things like this is why I advocate for banning commercials, period.
Imagine witnessing the most horrific injury to have ever occurred in football then this commercial comes up
Very Ironic that I got a UA-cam ad for KFC in a video about Burger King.
You too 😆
you rule!!
I was born in 1974, I had Burger King for dinner tonight and I'm a Cardinals fan....now I'm watching this video. Coincidence??? Keep up the great work as always!
"Burger King, your commercial makes me wanna hurt myself"
"WHOPPA WHOPPA WHOPPA"
-A real Burger King UK tweet
Wait that was the UK account? Damn they really didn’t learn from “women belong in the kitchen” did they
I wonder if UK fans have to endure this commercial too Imagine watching your favorite football club get Relegated And this is the 1st thing you see afterwards
@@TheChicagogamer they sure have
"Chicken Chicken Chicken" another Burger King commercial.
Burger King should retroactively pay this man for the free advertisement.
"Mid teens". Dude that's nothing for people from Minnesota.
I remember in 1993 the Detroit Lions were unable to sell out a home playoff game against the Packers, with over 10,000 tickets unsold and people in Detroit not able to watch the game. That was the last time the Lions hosted a playoff game.
Oh, wow. Did not know that. That was the first NFL playoff game that I can recall seeing any part of. I’m in the Bengals’ market, so no blackout for me. Lol
lion fans missed Farve roll left then throw back to his right to a wide open sharpe to finish off lions second and last home game in silverdome. their last home game playoff game.
Cardinals needed a local business to buy up remaining tickets for playoff games recently. TWICE
The biggest factor with this was the price and the fact that the Silverdome (where the Lions played at the time) sat like 82,000 people. It was hard to sell that place out.
@stevenpeterson3734 My dad, who's a Packers fan, always made fun of the Detroit Lions not selling out home games despite the metro area having a population of 4 million people.
When BK showed their commercial right after the phantom Dexter Lawrence roughing the passer, there was indeed a “bizarre drama” between BK and my sanity.
Did that give a double meaning to Whopper?
Wow, I was 12 days old when this playoff game was played.
$10 a ticket. Jesus. That $44,000 some would buy like 100 tickets today
Very interesting! I started watching football a couple of years after this happened, and never have heard this story. Love seeing old video of St. Louis Cardinals football. Jim Hart was a great QB but this game looked rough for him. Thanks for sharing!
cards should have stayed in st.l. phx. should have gotten their own team. thanks you p0 shit bidwell. at least cards remain losers in az.
It would get no better the next year...the Birds lost to the L.A. Rams in the Divisional Playoffs, 35-23, in the Coliseum. And then with the exception of the 1982 Super Bowl Tournament, the Cards wouldn't experience playoff football until 1998.
@@stevenbauer4799 Yeah from what I know Bidwell never endeared himself to any leaders in St. Louis. He was a really awkward guy. Wish the city could have got the dome built to keep the Cardinals in STL instead of bringing in the Rams. Although the Rams did provide a few great years. St. Louis deserves an NFL team with a local owner that actually cares about the city!
@@bobscott2429 I remember the first games I watched were the end of the '76 season. The team didn't make the playoffs with a 10-4 record. These days teams get in with 9-8 records.
If the thumbnail didn't say 1974, i would've assume the video was of WHOPPER WHOPPER WHOPPER WHOOPER JUNIOR DOUBLE TRIPLE WHOPPER
you RULE!
Thata not really a windchill for us
Oh, Bloomington is also the home of Dairy Queen
Think I remember an earlier JG9 video where a car dealership in the Dallas area bought the remaining tickets to a Cowboys playoff game to keep it from being blacked out in the Dallas and Fort Worth area.
I couldn't yet find above video you referenced. I just replied to him on 1973 Cowboys playoff blackout. I was age 9 in Dallas. I know Divisional Round game with Rams was blacked out. I'm fairly sure NFC Championship vs Vikings was headed to blackout before a local business bought remaining tickets. My age 9 memory thinks it was an appliance store name Gibsons, but a good chance I have that memory garbled.
Your Lisp/Voice sounds like Kip from the Napoleon Dynamite flick - LMAO!
Fun fact Vikings made it to 4 Super Bowls while playing outdoors, ever since moving indoors no Super Bowl appearances coincidence I think not
@Coogan and Bud Grant
Funnily Enough, I Was Eating A Chicken Wrap From Burger King While Watching This.
Feel good story. ☺👏
Ugh, you just picked my lunch for the day...
I honestly haven't seen that Burger King commercial... Mainly because the upcoming Super Bowl will be the first time I've actually watched a football game since the Packers played the Eagles at Lincoln Financial Field on Sunday Night Football
Dan Dierdorf at 16:30, #72
This video had the best opening yet. Keep up the good work.
I was only listening to the video for the first minute and I heard that song and immediately said, "No, UA-cam! Not that ad!" It's traumatized me.
Wow, $10 to go to a playoff game. Even for 1974 that's cheap, would be $64 in today's dollars. Just spent $260 for a regular season Vikings game for this year..
Still better than most modern rappers
I went to burger king today, i didnt have it my way…& i didnt feel like i ruled 😕
Lol the music puns were great
6:40 That weather doesn’t sound brutal at all. I mean it’s just cold, snow and a little wind. No biggie.
It doesn't bother Green Bay...
6:25 "Illegal procedure, #72 offense. That penalty is declined. Personal foul, clipping #88 offense. That penalty is accepted. That's a 15 yard penalty, repeat 2nd down.
Minnesota would make it to _Super Bowl IX_ before ultimately falling to the Pittsburgh Steelers, 16-6. And as any NFL fan knows, they still have yet to win the big one.
@James Torscci I know. I was pulling for them and the other teams that made it who have yet to win a Super Bowl.
Jim Marshall needs to be in the pro football hall of fame
I have said this for over a decade. It's one of the great mysteries of the PFHOF. Page and Eller were great and deserve it but Marshall was every bit as good. He played over 20 years in the NFL and was an absolute beast. There has to be a reason.
@@buffalobraves9 I said that on Facebook and this idiot, who probably never even saw him play, said he was good but not dominating.
Another said that it's because of his wrong-way run in 1964.
I told both of them that they were nuts.
Marshall had as many tackles in SB XI as me. None.
@@76vike19 and he had 282 consecutive NFL games played and you had none. And his 127 sacks are exactly 127 more than you had. None. And he had 30 fumble recoveries and you had….none.
@@buffalobraves9 127 sacks in 20 years is 6.35 sacks a season. Nothing special - give him the lifetime achievement award for playing 20 years and being the dipshit who picked up a fumble and ran the wrong way. Oh and give him special recognition for losing 4 SBs - sorry your butt is so hurt over this…
So! Professional Sports the world over are FIXED!
This is a far happier story about Burger King than their involvement in NASCAR. They were the primary sponsor for the BK Racing team from 2012-2018, a team that was absolutely terrible with frequent DNF's & some of the worst cars performance wise in modern NASCAR history. Worst of all, the team was owned by a businessman named Ron Devine who had outstanding loan payments to the bank that he had yet to pay. I should point out that he used the loan payments to start this team. This resulted in 2018 in Union Bank (the bank that provided Devine the loans) basically suing him to get their money back because he had defrauded them. He also was a cheapskate as he refused to pay the drivers & employees that worked under him & he refused to buy high quality equipment, instead preferring to buy equipment that was 2-3 years old because it was cheaper. In a sport like NASCAR, having 2-3 year old equipment makes it very difficult if not impossible to compete at a high level. Burger King's role in all of this was that they along with Dr Pepper provided free sponsorship to BK Racing not knowing that the whole thing was one big Ponzi scheme and they got free advertising at NASCAR races. At the end of the 2018 season, BK Racing was liquidated after Devine lost the court case & was made to pay $30 million to the bank as well as of all of the employees & drivers that he had refused to pay previously.
If anything Burger King should've stayed with Tony Stewart until the end of his career. At least they would've won a championship like Office Depot did.
This shocks me because I became a Vikings fan in 1972. I was under the impression as a pre teen that they were one of the richest teams in the league because they won so much. I didn't have any idea about big or small markets back in 1974. I just knew I wanted to play in the NFL. Well of the 3 levels, I got to 2 of them( High and College).
I got high in college
@@BigBoy-cn2fy
I've gotten high on many college campuses.
Hold the airplane, hold Jim Winstead,
Buying tickets won’t upset us,
All we ask is that you let us,
Have good PR!
Uhhh it seems like almost every commercial break on nfl games they play either a burger king ad or an insurance ad. It's all about the advertising $$$
It takes two hands to handle a Whopper
12:04 They contacted the airport and told Arthur Rosewald to call the Minnesota Vikings. Since he was already at the airport he was told to board a plane to Minnesota.
It's not brain surgery.
Its win-win Minnesota got to see the Vikings without leaving home and Burger King got good publicity
'Have it Your Way' actually meant something for those of us who lived back then_
you see, before when you went to a burger place and ordered a hamburger.... You couldn't get it your way_ you got it the way that that establishment made their burgers
Then BK™ got the wonderful idea of letting the Customer decide what they wanted on the burger, thus 'Have it your Way' became the Burger King Exclusive
Ex. Guy walks in to Burger Butts and wants a burger with no Mayo_ the Worker says, "Whatta ya think this is, Burger King ? Mayo comes on all Burger Butts burgers !"
My timestamp isn't working for some reason, but at 6:56 the right DE #75 for the Vikings is WAY off sides, but I don't think he was called for it. I wonder if John Randle learned that trick from him 😮
Back when Burger King's food wasn't all garbage.
God, I HATE that Burger King commercial
The 5 buck and Chicken commercial are funnier.
at least this Channel notices when Vikings win Playoff Games.
ooo oo! You should talk about Herb from Burger King.
Good thing they didn't spike the whopper into the ground on every play
The Vikings having a positive point differential?!
6:20 to 6:36 is gold, Jerry. GOLD~!
WHOPPER WHOPPER WHOPPER WHOPPER
Bizarre drama? Ehhhhhhh, not so much.
What a gawdaful commercial!!!!!!
A little surprising it was not sold out. Can understand Falcons and Saints games not sold out. Don’t think weather would have been a factor either. 5 years earlier Vikings won the NFL Championship in colder temperatures!!! Bewildered by it! GB & Buffalo are smaller cities and didn’t have problems selling out.🤔
You dont even rule in your house.
Getting to Metropolitan Stadium from Minneapolist-St.Paul International Airport is not really that impressive it was less than 500 yards from the main terminal. He could have walked there in less than 10 minutes. Moreover Minneapolis-St.Paul INt Airport had a massively expansive snow removal system, and has only closed twice since 1960. One of which was the same storm that collapsed the Metrodome roof.
The Burger King Cinematic Universe😂😂😂
In the "Chicken Chicken Chicken Chicken" universe yep.
So did they give out the tickets at there location for free or with a combo😂
The article says they were donated to charitable organizations to distribute...thus making it tax-deductible
This game was televised on CBS. The announcers were Brent Musburger and Johnny Unitas
Irv Cross was there as well. The next season, Brent and Irv would team up with Phyllis George to launch the iconic Emmy award-winning pregame show, "The NFL Today."
Airing locally on WCCO-TV, channel 4
Playoff tickets were only 10 dollars. Would Burger King have bought the unsold tickets if they were 200 dollars a ticket?
Two things leap out at me about the ticket buying article. 1. The ticket sellers' name was Andy Vrabel. Mike's dad perhaps? There can't be too many guys named Vrabel around. 2. There's a bit at the end about the Vikings practicing in Tulsa to "escape the Minnesota cold and snow" that destroys the long-held narrative that Bud Grant and the team didn't give a flying frick how cold or bad the weather was there.
Actually, Vrabel is a relatively common Czech last name. Mike's dad's name is Chuck and he has spent his entire life living in Ohio.
Bud grant went out to the playoff game vs seattle where it was -9 degrees in short sleeves. And he was 90. The man doesn’t give a fuck about the cold. Lmfaooooo
I think I’ll get a triple whopper today
Have it your way. You rule!
What is your frickin problem with Burger King huevetz
Inflation was high in the 70s … *nobody could afford it*
Yep thanks Reagan.
The NFC Central had the home field advantage throughout the postseason. What would have happened if the team from that division (in this case Minnesota) lost in the first round?
The Pillsbury/BK linkup was beneficial in helping Burger King become more competitive with McDonald's
(Fun fact: When they wanted to open restaurants in Australia, Pillsbury found the name Burger King was already copyrighted. So they called them Hungry Jack's, after what Pillsbury used to market products like refrigerated biscuits and instant mashed potatoes)
The Burger King in Mattoon, Illinois, had a state trademark for the name before the national chain sought the federal trademark. They sued when the chain moved into the state and won a 25-mile radius of exclusivity around Mattoon.
It's good to be king
Great Tom Petty song!
Whatever it pays
Just to crown up your day.
It does make sense knowing that Pillsbury owned Burger King at that time. These days, Burger King is its own publicly traded stock based in Miami, FL... and they own Tim Hortons (Canadian) and Popeye's (associated with Louisiana).
And I believe Pillsbury was headquartered in the Twin Cities.
BK is owned by Restaurant Brands International, right? Canadian company? I own a little bit of their stock.
@thefonz003 Yea... RBI which was when BK bought Tims... as I remember. I know they have a Miami address for a while.... but may have moved back to Toronto in the meantime (I sold a while back)...
I thought BK was owned by Yum brands but I guess not.
Canada and Louisiana… must be French or sumthin
Burger King impacted the 2022 NFL playoffs as well
Could have the guy called instead go to stadium. N my ales no sense
Best JG9 intro ever. Well played.
I blame Lea Thompson and Sarah Michelle Gellar
Makes me nostalgic to go back in time and watch that game at my grandparents house on 26th & James in North Minneapolis.
Ypu could swing thru the Burger King on Penn & Broadway during a commercial break, and be right back on the couch without missing any of the game.
Same thing happened a few ago with the Packers playing the 49ers in the playoffs (2013 i think)..... Associated Bank I believe had to buy the last thousand tickets
16:39 If im not mistaken that is DK Metcalf's grandfather is it not?
Terry and DK are not related.
One reason it became less remarkable was, the NFL changed its rules so that if there were only a certain number of tickets (I want to say 5000) remaining at the 72-hour deadline, the league gave the team an extra 24 hours to sell out - and I have a feeling that, in quite a few cases, the home team's station that would air the game, bought the remaining tickets at that point - especially after the 2000 policy change that allowed the doubleheader station to air both games even if one of them was the local team at home, provided that game was not blacked out.
Five bucks? Wait that can’t be right… just confirmed that’s the right price. Gotta love the ol’ skool feel of it tho
Yep I love that that's the real price at BK.
I don't want to burger pun but where's the beef or the Drama.
You have to understand the times we were living in 1974. Their was the energy Crises and inflation in that year. I remember long longggg looonnnnnngg lines for gas. My pop had to turn the car off until we could inch up in order to save gas ⛽. Then it was the Christmas season. I'll never forget that time. Racing car sets and a Bobby Hull Hockey game were my biggest gifts. So people saved money for gifts instead of watching football 🏈 outdoors at that time. It was a different world back then without Cable or sports shows. It was an innocent time
This whopper commercial is gonna be the new rickroll, isn’t it?
AT BK HAVE IT YOUR WAY YOU RULE!
You have a lot of past content, so forgive me if this has been covered.
1973 NFC Divisional Playoffs: Rams at Cowboys was blacked out in DFW, as it did not sell out 72 hours in advance.
Dallas then hosted Vikings in NFC Championship Game (another crazy playoff host rotation as both Rams & Vikings had better records than 10-4 Cowboys). I"m trusting my age 9 memory, but that game was also headed for blackout, but local retailer (I think an appliance store) named Gibsons bought up remaining tickets & blackout was lifted. I've I'm wrong, sorry. Again, I was age 9.
I'm not sure why Cowboys had trouble selling out playoff games. I know my dad had season tickets at Cotton Bowl, but chose not to buy them at Texas Stadium. I don't think the economy was good either. Also, 1973 was 8th straight Cowboys playoff year, so maybe a similar waning interest issue like 1974 Vikes playoff game.
On Christmas Day in ‘71 Viking attendance was 47,100. In the ‘70 playoff game against SF attendance was only 45.000. That was a very cold day!
This video could have been three minutes long.
In 1964 all home games were blacked out regardless of ticket sales. My dad went on top of the roof to move the antenna to face Pittsburgh so we could watch the NFL championship game between the Browns and Colts.
In the ‘73 playoff game against the Redskins attendance was 48,000 on a cold day! Baffling!
Now I want a whopper...
I remember this well. The problem was the seats were poor. Obstructed views and bad sight lines was the reason why most games were not sold out. Also some of those tickets were giving away by Burger King.
Glad I'm not the only one that hates that stupid Burger King with that awful rap. BK should be more concern about lowering the price of the Whooper instead.
This year would have been the only time a rotational system for home field would make sense at all
Thank god Jim Hart had a 58.something qb rating and not below 39.6 cause that way we didnt got to hear that 39.6 crap of yours.
The vikings have been a joke, since they moved to a dome.
lived in n.e. minneapolis at this time and had a BK 2 blocks from my house, mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm burgers.....
That intro hit me like a freight train.
Also, the benefit of being in Canada and having American feeds' commercials replaced with Canadian ones is that I am spared the WHOPPER WHOPPER WHOPPER onslaught.
JG9 had it his way
Have it your way
@@msarzo - and more, much more than this, he did…er, had it hiiiiiiis waaaaaay.
It wouldn’t have been hard to get from the airport to Met Stadium in 1974. It’s only about 5 minutes away. In fact, there’s a very good chance you’ll see Mall of America (where the Met was) from your plane when you fly or land at MSP. You can *almost* hop the fence from the airport and you’re basically there.