![]() ![]() We see that every year, and even the draft is prime time TV. What are your thoughts on Leslie Frazier, and what's the biggest difference a coach has to deal with in today's NFL as opposed to when you were coaching?Įverything's gotten bigger and better. I'm on a first name basis with everybody, but I'm not asked to do anything, which is the best job in the world (laughter). I get to see the coaches and players, but I do not get involved with any part of discussing personnel, strategy, or any decision making. I coached the team for 18 years, but I've had an office here since 1985. If you look around the league, I don't know that any of the other coaches (that I coached against) have an office (at their team's headquarters). No, they allow me to have an office, and I appreciate that. It's not a big one, but if you've had an office your whole life, and then suddenly you're out in the street, well, that's not a good scenario (laughter). The Vikings are very gracious in allowing me to have an office here, and it's the same one I had when I was coaching. Well, it's kind of deceiving to say I've got an office with the Vikings (laughs). You still have an office with the Vikings at Winter Park, and spend time there. It's great to have Bob with us and I'm sure it will be a wonderful time. He's going to introduce me, and I don't know who's more honored, me or him. I was a fullback and linebacker, he played defensive back, so we go back a long, long way. When we get to high school, we were teammates for four years. We didn't have little league like the kids have today, so he'd get a team, I'd get a team, and we'd play baseball. What's your relationship to him?īob and I are 86 years old now, and when we were kids, we went to school together. But to go back to my high school and be recognized by All State and the Hall of Fame it's quite an honor.įormer classmate and teammate Bob Downs will be presenting the plaque to you. And to go back and be honored at your high school, that seems like eons ago, but interestingly, I can tell you many thing that happened in high school, and I can't remember anything that happened in many of the games I was involved in. You go through life, and you have a lot of things happen, but when you go back to your hometown, that's where it all began. What does the Hometown Heroes Award mean to you? You've had so many accolades in your life and your career. He is, by every meaning and definition of the phrase, a living legend to many. He won 11 NFC Central division titles in 13 years, 3 NFC championship games, 1 NFL championship game, and 4 Canadian Football League Grey Cups. He is the all-time winningest coach in Vikings history, and the third winningest coach in professional football history behind only Don Shula and George Halas. 'Bud' Grant, and he roamed the sidelines from 1967-1983, and again in 1985. In Minnesota, the Vikings were known as the Purple People Eaters, and they fielded one of the fiercest defenses in NFL history. When I was growing up in the 1970's, the NFL was in a different time. ![]() Coach Grant sat down with us to talk about the All State Hometown Heroes Program and the award he'll receive at his high school in Superior, WI on Wednesday, the Vikings, and a look back on the greatest era in Vikings history. His best year came in 1989, when he tallied 21 sacks.Pro football legend Bud Grant will be recognized by the Pro Football Hall of Fame and Allstate Insurance Company in Superior, Wis., on Wednesday, May 1, as part of "Hometown Hall of Famers TM," a national program honoring the hometown roots of the sport's greatest coaches, players, and contributors with special ceremonies and plaque dedication events in local communities. ![]() Doleman played for the Vikings from 1985-1993, and again in 1999. On Pro Football Reference's updated list, Page, Eller and Marshall have joined the ranks.Ĭhris Doleman is highest on Pro Football Reference's list at No.7, with 150.5. In conjunction with the announcement, the site released its own top 25 sacks leaderboard, and with three new additions from the Purple People Eaters, six total Vikings are on the list, more than any other team.Ĭhris Doleman, Jared Allen and John Randle are all already on the NFL's official list, because their careers came after 1982. The site announced this week that it has accounted for a majority of NFL sacks going back to 1960. Stats website Pro Football Reference has rectified that. So, all of the times Alan Page, Jim Marshall, Carl Eller and Gary Larsen took down opposing quarterbacks were technically off the books. That's because the league only started officially tracking sacks in 1982. MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) - Despite being known as one of the most fearsome defensive lines of all time, you won't find any members of the Purple People Eaters on the NFL's official sack leaders list. ![]()
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