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Best Vikings to Wear Numbers 0-19 | TSH Ep. 45 · The Skol Hop

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All right, Hey, Vikings fans, welcome into another episode of The School
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Hop. I'm Evan and I'm Austin. We're just a couple of dudes.
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We're like drinking beer and we like talking about the Vikings. Yeah, we
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do school school, and we have a nice little tradition that we've continued on
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our show. We like to only drink beers brewed in Iowa. Now that's
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not to say that we don't drink beer that's only brewed in Iowa outside of
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this, but when we're recording, when we're sitting in these chairs we're talking
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about the Vikings, we've made it our concerted effort to drink only Iowa beer.
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And I think between all the beers and breweries currently out there and any
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of our own personal efforts, between all of that, we shouldn't ever run
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out of Iowa beers. We may get to the point where we are scraping
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the bottle of the barrel and drinking some like pickle sour or something, but
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darn it, there's always going to be new beers, So that's right.
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And the brewery that we are drinking today five cities, they just recently in
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the last few weeks of real time. You know. I'm not sure when
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this episode is going to get released, but not terribly long ago, they
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just released their own new beer in the What's what is it? The Bad
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Boy? I p a the Big Boy, the Big Boy ip A Big
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Boy, and I've tried that and it's really good. So I don't know
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if you've tried it yet, but you should check it out. You should
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check it out. It's pretty good. We need to go together, yeah
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we do. We do that fun business meeting. But until then, tonight
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we can enjoy Five Cities Bulldog Blonde Blonde Ale. It's what I picked out.
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Tonight. We we did do a TikTok which they'll be released in tandem
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pretty much. You can see our initial thoughts on on this beer. My
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initial thought is that this is a classic. When I think of Five Cities
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beer, this is one of the very few beers that I immediately think of.
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They've got a long list of great beers, but this Bulldog Blonde Blonde
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Ale, it's just it's a nice, easy drinker. It's a classic.
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I like it a lot. What do you think so far? I've had
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it many times and I agree with you. It's a classic. It it
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just kind of sits nicely in that blonde ale category. And I have my
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go to and in fact, maybe one of these days when we record,
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I will have to snag a four pack of my go to to. My
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go to of Five Cities is crushing on Amber, which would makes sense,
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right the amber guy. Fine, Yeah, And I just saw it because
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I was there recently that they have them in cans. Next why I'm at
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the brewery. So one of these days my go to of Five Cities is
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either Shwifty Hippie or the Good Boy. We've had both on the show.
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Now so and now good Stuff. You know, for the third time ever,
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we're having a Five Cities beer, so in chronological order. Again.
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You mentioned that we're probably going to be releasing this episode always down the road,
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but I mean, as of the recording of this, that's true.
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Yeah, this brewery, Five Cities, they might be our number one brewery
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in terms of number of beers we've had. Yeah, it's either them or
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I feel like we've had a few Big Grove Brewery. Yep, all fantastic
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breweries and all fantastic beers so far. So I think we both like this
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one a lot. We will give a fully thought out live reaction, as
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live as you can be on a podcast that's automatically being pre recorded for a
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later date. Anyways, Yeah, we'll give you guys more of a thought
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on these beers, but so far, if you can get your hands on
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the Five Cities, really any other beers do it? Because I think I
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said in our TikTok if you don't like beer, then you're not gonna like
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the Bulldog Blonde. But if you like beer at all, you absolutely will
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like the Bulldog Blonde. It's it's just a beer's beer. It's really good.
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It's great. Yeah, And how fortunate are we to have such great
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beer right here in Iowa? Oh yeah, because not every local brewery is
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good. There's a reason. Unfortunately they are closing down as fast as they
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open up. But Five Cities has been around for a little while now.
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I can't think of a bad beer from them that I've ever had. They
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do things right. Yeah, I like it. Well, it's cool,
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it's cool. Well, we wanted to continue talking about the vikings, and
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because we want to keep this kind of open ended and timeless, I threw
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out an idea to you and you were like, yeah, let's do it.
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Let's play ball. So the idea was, let's see if we can
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name a Viking that's worn every jersey number from zero to ninety nine, and
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let's see if we can get as far as we can. And it's not
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necessarily a game because obviously for some numbers, there's a bunch of players that
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have worn yeah, that number. So I think we can stop and talk
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about like our favorite players or the best players to wear each number. And
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we're probably not going to make our way all the way through the list.
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No, and not in this one episode. May yeah, in one single
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episode, but we'll maybe make a little mini series out of this or incorporate
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it into some other episodes. And one other thing that we just thought would
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be fair to mention to folks at home is we do have a list in
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front of us. We're working with a list that was published on vikings Wire
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right yeah, last July, so July of twenty twenty three, so it's
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almost a year old, and it just lists one single Viking. I think
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they've named it the best Viking to wear each number. So if we do
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run into a little bit of a a spot where we get stuck and we
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can't come up with a player, we will look at the list that they've
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provided and maybe banter off of that a little bit as well. And I
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think it could be fun to kind of go through and even if we are
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both you know, we pick, like we get to the number eighty four,
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oh man, who are we gonna pick? But for whatever reason,
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if we get to a number, maybe we'll check this list and see what
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the Vikings Wire said, who whoever wrote this their opinion of the best at
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that number, and we can kind of say like, oh, yeah,
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I totally agree that it was that player, or we can be like,
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nope, no, not for me. So yeah, we're gonna use that
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article as a tool to keep us moving. Yep. And you said it's
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kind of not a game, but it is a little game too, because
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we are we're not gonna go off this list right away. We're going to
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try to figure out, like, oh, who is a Viking that war
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number zero? I mean, you know, like we are going to go
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through all of those numbers. Speaking of eighty four, a little sidetrack before
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we get back onto the main track here. You know, those little it's
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not the immaculate grid game, but it's the like the an outline of the
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player and it has a like this is where they went to college, this
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was the team that drafted them, and this was the tea that they last
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played for. I saw one today when I was just scrolling around a little
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bit Marshall, the Vikings, the forty nine ers, and it was super
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easy. Yeah. I wonder who that could be. Although there's probably somebody
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else out there that went to Marshall or at least attended there a little bit,
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played for the Vikings and then ended their career at the forty. That'd
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be fun to see if there's more than one, Yeah, that would be
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interesting. They did include the draft year. Oh so it was like nineteen
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ninety eight. Vikings was like, well duh, yeah, there can only
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be one of those, yep. So anyways, it'll be a while,
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maybe a few episodes in this series before at least two or three eighty four.
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But oh yeah, yeah, we'll see. We'll see how long it
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takes us. And we promise we won't sit here and talk for three hours
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because we both have to work tomorrow. Yeah, so darn it. Yeah,
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we haven't gotten popular enough where this can be our job yet. Although
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that's someday come on to school, hoppers, find us. We're here,
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we're waiting for you. We'll release this episode and we'll have like a million
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more followers. And hey, you present that as a problem, that'd be
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amazing. Let's make it happen. We'll manifest that into existence. Yep,
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all right, well shall we? Yeah? All right? So how do
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we want? Do we want to go back and forth? Do you want
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to like you me you me? Or do we just kind of want to
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throw it up? Let's do you and me and you me, or until
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one of us gets stuck and then we can both kind of go and then
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all right, we'll feel the flow. You started. Good, So my
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asking you, we're starting at zero. You you name the player. Oh,
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okay, zero, and I'll do one, and then you do two,
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and sure we'll just keep going. Well, I think there's only been
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one number zero, unless there was one way way way back in the day.
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But for a long time most of our lives, NFL players couldn't wear
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the number zero. It wasn't a you know, available number for them to
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wear. But at the twenty three season, the NFL teams can start wearing
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zero again, and good old Marcus Davenport. He uh somehow tricked the Vikings
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into sign and then getting paid an exorbitant amount for just like four games.
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So here's too, Marcus Davenport being the only option at number zero school school.
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Yeah again, this episode will come out a while from now, but
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at one point at the end of the twenty twenty three season I mentioned several
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times he's the first player that needs to go. He's the first one that
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needs to get the acts. We need to get him off the roster,
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and hopefully by the time you're listening to this that has actually happened. And
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who knows, maybe he'll never play football again. It seems like he lost
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a lot of his motivation. Yeah, I mean, maybe he's a nice
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dude. I don't know anything about him personally, but on the field and
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as a fan of my favorite team, he uh definitely didn't help my team
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out, except for maybe the Niners. Here the Carolina Panthers game, I
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think that's where he had all of his stats for this year. So yeah,
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that's true. He did eat up a lot of cap space, though
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he knows that was frustrating. All right, Number one, Now we've previewed
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this list. We haven't gone through the whole list. No, but I
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mean we're at the top of the article and there's the one number we can
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see. So I'm gonna go off the Listokay, that's okay, Yeah,
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because I don't I don't know that the number one on the list is the
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best number one, at least the best Viking. Maybe I don't know.
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I'm interested to hear what you're saying. So the number one on the list
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the best Viking that they're saying vikings wire to where the number one is Warren
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Moon. Yeah, and I think that's a great pick. Hall of Fame
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quarterback. It's hard. It's hard to argue that. Yeah, and you
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might you might disagree with my Pike a little bit because he was involved in
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some heartbreak. But I think Gary Anderson, okay, I mean might be
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he was number one. I believe he wore number one. He had a
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dominant streak, which only made that miskick in ninety eight so much more heartbreaking.
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He hadn't missed a kick all year or the year prior. He was
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incredible, amazing, So I don't know. I like Gary Anderson. I
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have a lot of great memories. Of course, there's that one and unfortunately,
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sometimes that's how kickers are remembered. There. My dad used to say
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this all the time. Nobody remembers when I'm right, and when I'm wrong,
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nobody forgets, or something like that. Like that's kind of the way
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it is with kickers. When they're doing their job and they're making kicks,
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no one really remembers. We're just excited and then they missed the one,
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that one kick that we just needed him to make and he didn't, and
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that's all he's remembered for. But I like to remember the better days.
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Yeah, Gary Anderson not a bad pick. I'm just surprised personally. I'd
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go with Warren Moon of that number, but like, yeah, you're not.
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He he didn't play enough in Minnesota, sure, Yeah, He's just
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he spent a lot of time elsewhere and was good elsewhere, which is also
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pretty typical of Vikings quarterbacks. Yeah, yeah, that could be a whole
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nother little minise as We could do Vikings quarterbacks that have won Super Bowls with
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others elsewhere. Yeah, Brad Johnson's the first guy I can think of anyway.
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Oh man, prep far we could just keep going down the list,
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all right, Number two here number two. It's my turn, and I'm
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sitting here with a blank on my blank in my mind. Oh man,
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I wasn't gonna look it up, but we're gonna have to eventually, I
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guess. Technically, Alexander Madison switched to number two for the twenty three season.
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Yep. I wouldn't say he's the best, but off the top of
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my head, I can't. I can't think of another player to wear number
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two, and I'm sure I'm missing some crazy awesome one. Didn't we have
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a punter at one point, Gary Bennett. I think his name was more
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number two. Yeah, I don't know. I guess I gotta go with
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alex Madison right now. If we can, we can keep keep this part
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of the episode short. Who's number three I have? I mean number three.
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I don't know who's number three on the list. I haven't looked that
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far, but I'm gonna go with Jeff George. Oh George, number three.
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Now you could say I'm talking out of both sides of my mouth because
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I just had more and Moon. He didn't play that much with the Vikings,
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and you're gonna throw out Jeff George, But well, he's the only
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three that I can come up with the list has jan Stanruda, which I
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can't think. I can't honestly say that I would have said that I knew
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he was a Viking. The picture they have he's a Hall of Famer,
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he's a kicker. I don't the picture they have he's an old man wearing
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his Hall of Fame jacket, and the picture looks old like. It looks
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like there might be Mike Dicka, a young Mike Dicka. You may have
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been the first or one of the first kickers for the Vikings way back in
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the day. So yeah, sure, maybe he is the best number three
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in the Vikings of all time. But hopefully Jordan Addison can make a statement
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on that in the next you know, ten ish years. He's so new
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that I forget that he's number three. Yeah, at least at this point.
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Well, I know, if we go back to number two, JJ,
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he wore number two in college, and he came in the year before
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they started. He came into the NFL the year before the NFL started letting
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anybody wear any number. It seems so, I mean, that's eighteen pigeonholed
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into like some of those teen numbers, or like eighty and up. Yeah,
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eighty to eighty nine. Yeah, I used to. I still know
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what the rules were. Receivers forever could wear ten to nineteen and then eighty
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eighty nine. Yeah, but now the rules are wide open, and I'm
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I'm for those rules. I like that guy can't wear different numbers. Well,
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I mean, historically it just came down to jersey sizes. The smaller
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numbers were smaller jerseys, and the bigger numbers were bigger jerseys. And now
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that you can custom make any jersey, any size doesn't matter. All right,
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It's my turn, number four, number quatro, all right. So
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I mean I'm tempted to say Brett Favre just because of the magical one year,
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but I think even though he didn't wear number four his entire Vikings career,
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and this is super recency bias, and you know, I'm showing my
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age. I think I have to go with Dalvin Cook. Like he's you
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know, top two or three best Vikings running back in franchise history. Just
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amazing, and I think he takes a lot of pride in that number four
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too, so he is on the lists, yeah, number four, So
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yeah, I think I gotta go Dalvin Cook. I think Chris Cloe wore
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number four for a minute, yeah he was, But Dalvin Cook is better,
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his positions better. I think if we're looking at again and this is
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where this list could be, like, it could go one of two ways.
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Are we looking at players that spent most of their careers in Minnesota or
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players that were just really really good all time? Like I think Bratt Faire
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is better than Dalvin Cook, But who's the better Vik king that I mean
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that twenty ten or sorry, two thousand and nine in the early twenty ten
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season, like that was a magical season. Absolutely that ended in heartbreak.
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It ended in more heartbreak, which is typical of most Viking seasons. But
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yeah, I don't know. I don't disagree with you. I think Dalvin
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Cook's a great pick. He's another one of those that wore a different number
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until the rules changed because he was thirty three. Yep. So I don't
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know. It'd be interesting because we again we haven't really screened this whole list.
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No, yeah, and I think that's a good thing ultimately, Yeah,
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I don't, but I don't know. Maybe some of these will show
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up again or yeah, so just to recap number one, we have Gary
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Anderson. Zero Marcus. Oh yeah, he's forgettable, way forgettable. He's
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as relevant as his number. I'm sure he's a great guy. I don't
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know. Uh so zero Marcus Davin for one, Gary Anderson to Warren moved
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or the list born? Yeah? Two Alex Madison. Three, you went
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with Jeff George. Jeff George, I say, we say are official,
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even if it's like if we have a disagreement, it's whoever is picking it,
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all right? And then for Dalvin Cook, who's number five? Ev
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Oh man, I'm not prepared for this. I didn't think this far ahead.
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Number five. I might have to go to the list for this one.
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That's fine. I already looked at this is one that I looked at
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the list. Oh, Teddy two gloves, Yeah, I can get on
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board with that. I can totally get on board with that. Then you
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get into the argument, I mean Teddy, he just never got a chance.
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Really yep. And I know Chris Kloey also wore number five. Was
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Chris Kluey a better punter for the Vikings than Teddy was a quarterback for the
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Vikings? And you I think we're gonna go with Teddy on lists for the
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sake of our official but like the arguments there, and I'm sure we're forgetting
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other guys. Yeah, so I'm just pulling this up. Every player to
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wear number five. This is also from Vikings Wire. Okay, I'm just
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gonna run down the list just because it's interesting. Jalen Rager, oh Man,
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Ty Smith cornerback, twenty four. Recent guys, Dan Bailey kicker for
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a handful of years there in the late twenty twenties. Yeah, for twenty
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teens. Yeah, Teddy Chris Kluey five to twelve. Uh, I'm gonna
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quiz you here. He played one season in Minnesota. It was forgettable.
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Oh yes, you know. I have his T shirt and I got it
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in college. I got it on clearance and I worked down at it a
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couple of times, and I remember joking after the second workout that I had
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put more blood, sweat and tears in that Donovan McNabb number five than he
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ever did for the Vikings. So yeah, there you go. Yeah,
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Donovan McNabb, Kyle Richardson punter from two thousand and two, Greg Davis kicker
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from ninety seven. Yeah, Larry Miller quarterback eighty seven kicker Mike Wood seventy
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eight. Yeah, that number is gonna its Viking fame is ahead of itself
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because now more receivers and running backs and stuff are going to be able to
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wear that number when it's only quarterbacks available, Like, you're looking at a
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short list of guys on any team that has ever been a quarterback for your
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team and good enough to be talked about. So probably Teddy at this point.
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Honestly, you can make the case for Kluey or Dan Bailey. I
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forgot Bailey war number five, but yeah, there you go. All right,
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you're six man. Well, I know who currently wears number six,
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and he's almost as forgettable as Marcus Davenport Lewis Cen. I don't know who
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would be the best number six of all time, probably like a former quarterback
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tempted to see what this Vikings wire list has as the best. Oh yeah,
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Bubby Brister. Their picture of him isn't even in a Vikings uniform.
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And I can honestly say, this is the first time I remember hearing that
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name. I've been an NFL fan for my entire life, but so I'm
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sure I've heard that name, but I can't remember it. So this list
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has Bubby Brister. So if you're an aspiring great NFL player and you go
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to the Vikings, consider number six. You can easily become the best number
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six of all time for sure. Yeah number seven. You know what I'm
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likeing I figured out we are you're the odd Yeah, okay, it was
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a it was a difficult code to crack. Yeah, well, I teach
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English. I've never been good with numbers. Number seven. And if we
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can't think of who is like obviously the greatest, then just default too if
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you can think of anybody to wear that number, and then if you can't,
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then we can go to the list. This is where like I came
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up with this idea, and now I feel like I'm already like, well
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there's one that you're gonna hear the name be like, oh of course,
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yeah. But was Christian Ponder number seven? Oh that's not even who I
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was thinking of. But yes, he wore number seven. Well he's definitely
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not the best number seven. No, you could argue that Ponder picked set
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the Vikings back a decade. That was that was a bad pick. And
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yeah, his wife has had a more successful career in football than he has.
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All right, Is that that's the one you can think of? That's
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well, that's all I can think of at the best. Uh Mine that
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I figured you would immediately say, is Tarbaris Jackson. You knew the name?
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This list apparently has Randall Cunningham. How can we ye we mentioned and
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we can't even mention Cunningham and the two of them had a similar Vikings career.
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Yeah, short lived, but electric included an NFC Championship game, two
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of the closest attempts we've had as Super Bowl fans in our lifetime. Yeah,
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so so probably I think having seen this, we can officially say it's
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Cunningham. Yeah, let's go with Cunningham. Sure, but we both thought
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of Ponder and Tarveraris Jackson beforehand, and Jackson being the only Super Bowl winning
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quarterback of the bunch, I guess I don't know about Cunningham. I believe
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Jackson won a Super Bowl as a member of the Seahawks on the bench of
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course, of course. Yeah. But and rest in peace he's been he's
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been off the earth for a handful of years now. Yeah, I do
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remember that, all right, Number eight, number eight, Oh man,
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I wonder who I'm gonna go with here, So I've got to go Kirk,
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and I don't know, I'm I'd be shocked if the list doesn't have
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Kirk, as you know, he's a can't even really think of. I
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know Sam Bradford wore eight too before Kirk. Another one that came to mind
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right away with Sam Bradford, and he's definitely the story of what could have
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been. Oh my gosh, I feel so sad every time I think about
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him, because he definitely gave us, Like his one fully healthy year with
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the Vikings was as good as anything Kirk has given us. And I'm a
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huge Kirk fan. I don't want that to come off as anything negative towards
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Kirk. I think like at the time Bradford and his one full year of
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starting, he set the single season NFL record for highest completion percentage, which
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I think was broken the next year. He just he was so good,
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and then he played essentially one game in the next year and looked like freaking
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the next coming of Joe Montana and it was so exciting, but his knees
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just disintegrated. Yeah. A couple of other interesting names in number eight world
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for the Vikings. Ryan longwell, oh yeah, I forgot about him.
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Kicker for a long time. He started with the Packers, but yeah,
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and then Greg Coleman ooh, punter and current. I actually think he's retired
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from media, but yeah, he was a longtime kfan and Vikings Entertainment Network.
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Yeah yeah, really good guy. There's another one here that I don't
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know at all. Looks like he was only around for maybe a year,
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maybe two, Aaron Elling. I don't know. Is he a Kicker?
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Oh? Three oh four? It doesn't say in this article. This is
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from Daily Norseman. But there's one more, number eight on the list,
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and this has a really interesting connection to me. Todd Bowman, Oh yeah,
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from is he from Pipestone? He's from Pipestone, Minnesota, which is
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I wasn't born there, but I lived there. My parents were both kind
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of from there. I have a grandmother still lives there. Can you be
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born in Pipestone? Yeah, there's a hospital there is there. My dad
26:04
was born in Pipestone. Interesting, Okay, I didn't know how big or
26:08
small. It was not any shade on Pipestone when we were living there,
26:11
when I was right before I moved here to Iowa. So this would have
26:18
been the mid to late nineties. I think it was like five thousand people.
26:23
Oh okay, and now it's it's probably closer to four maybe slightly under
26:29
four thousand. Okay. It's a small town, but not that small.
26:33
It's got a hospital. I think I know what you're doing right now?
26:36
What am I doing? You can't think of a number nine, so you're
26:37
delaying, You're trying to buy some time. I am. I'm really bad
26:42
at this kind of stuff. I'm pretty sure I have a number nine,
26:45
number nine, number nine, number nine. Nikhil Harry was he nine this
26:51
year? I'm way off of it. I think he wore sixteen and then
26:55
even maybe also thirteen. Okay, well that was my bestket at number nine.
27:00
I'm gonna cheat and look at the list. I know who the current
27:02
number nine is unless his contracts expire. No current number nine is trishtan Jackson
27:08
Jackson. Okay, who does this list? Have? The The one that
27:14
I should have known, and I feel dumb for not knowing, is Tommy
27:17
Kramer. I wouldn't have gotten that obviously. I've known Tommy Kramer's name.
27:22
He's a Viking quarterback, very good. I think, well he start the
27:26
only other he's one of two Vikings quarterbacks to start a Super Bowl. Yeah,
27:29
I would have guessed his number is eleven, but obviously that's wrong unless
27:33
he doubled. I don't know anyways, Yeah, I don't know. I
27:38
do know that he's still currently second in a lot of statistical categories behind Fran
27:47
Tarkinson. So I mean it's it's Fran then Tommy, then Kirk's. And
27:52
the only reason why we know Tommy is because of those years where Fran got
27:56
traded to the Giants. Yep. I believe it was tom He's time to
28:00
shine there and he kind of did. The name I was going to say,
28:03
And I might be wrong on this, McMahon from Heath so Leave.
28:10
He won that eighty five Super Bowl with the Bears, but I know that
28:14
he played for the Vikings for a minute, and I'm pretty sure he wore
28:18
number nine with both teams. Yeah, yep, McMahon in ninety three.
28:22
Tommy Kramer. What's his first name? I want to say Jim, but
28:25
that sounds wrong. Jim McMahon. Brooks Bollinger, Oh yeah, from that
28:30
Oh man, everything I've heard is Brooks Bollinger is a fantastic human being.
28:36
But that era what twenty six seven. Yeah, that era of Vikings quarterback
28:42
was a dark dark time that time right after Culpepper pretty much and really before
28:48
Tarvaris Jackson, but then it was still pretty dark, and then five kind
28:53
of broke the mold for a minute. But yeah, there's another kicker to
28:57
wear number nine in ninety Scott Sisson. That's kind of really before I kind
29:03
of came into awareness. I was a Vikings fan at this point, but
29:08
not I kind of woke as a Vikings fan in like a one oh two.
29:14
It's my fault. Yeah, thanks, because when I moved here,
29:18
why couldn't you have been a Patriots fan? That's all I'm saying this whole
29:21
time, we could have been so much more happier as people. Well sorry,
29:29
Nick Mullins also wore number nine with the Vikings. It's that's what it
29:33
says. Well in twenty twenty two he was on the roster. Yeah,
29:37
I thought he's always been twelve. Though I might be wrong. I'm okay
29:41
with being wrong. This one says every player to wear number nine, and
29:45
this is also a Vikings wire so as a career backup, it wouldn't surprise
29:49
me if he's switched around a little bit, but okay, you're up for
29:55
number ten. This one should be easy. I mean, this is a
29:57
layup. Maybe the challenge should be trying to think of a different player,
30:02
but I'm pretty sure there's only ever been one player to where the number ten.
30:06
The next several should be pretty easy. Yeah. Yeah, so obviously
30:11
someone who I think has to be considered the best quarterback of Viking's history,
30:18
with arguments for who's close in, who's number two, and who might be
30:22
number one, but this is definitely Fran Tarkenton. YEP, a Hall of
30:25
Fame quarterback essentially changed the game. He was Mike Vick before Mike Vick was
30:30
Mike Vick. Like. People touted him that, you know, he was
30:33
really good at extending plays and running around. He'd run one hundred yards to
30:37
throw for a three yard pass, like the guy just never let a play
30:41
die. Obviously, Hall of Famer. I think when he retired he was
30:45
number one in all the passing yards and definitely passing touchdowns and everything like that.
30:48
Maybe an interceptions too, I don't know, started most if not all,
30:52
of the Vikings Super bowls. Hopefully we can change that here soon.
30:57
But yeah, Fran tark and then has to be the best number ten and
31:02
probably the only number ten in Vikings history, and he was retired. Yeah,
31:04
we should check that really quick. But I'm pretty sure his number is
31:07
retired because I know he was an original inaugural season Viking and yeah, he
31:12
had what four ish years with the Giants, maybe even a few more than
31:18
that, So I guess the only chance anybody else could have had to wear
31:22
number ten would have been during Tarkinson's Giants years. He played five years and
31:27
then I don't know how soon after Frank retired they retired retired his number,
31:33
but probably soon after that. Yep. So his last season was seventy eight,
31:38
and I don't think it says when he was when his number was.
31:42
That feels like something you'd have to like specifically google and then find like some
31:47
random Star Tribune article if they existed then to point out when they officially retired
31:52
it. But yeah, but he's easily the best Vikings quarterback. And I
31:57
think the debate over number two is between Tommy Kramer and Kirk Cousins. Yeah,
32:06
I think. And then you get in the whole era, you know
32:09
which day and age of the game they're playing. In, but I think
32:14
it's got to be Kirk as number two. Yeah, yeah, I think
32:17
Kirk has in a shorter amount of time, played better and put up better
32:23
numbers than Tommy. But all right, here you go, non quarterback number
32:29
eleven? Who is it? Just kidding? Well? We have number eleven?
32:35
Yeah, right behind you to get he's behind me. So I gotta
32:38
go with Dante. I'm not even gonna look at the list. I just
32:42
have to be sure it's not La Kwan Treadwell. Are you sure? Pretty
32:45
sure? Pretty sure? I'll take Dante Culpepper every day. Yeah. He
32:50
was so fun. He's he was the starting quarterback when I really realized I
32:57
was a fan of the Vikings. There's a picture of us doing this,
33:00
yeah, at us Bank Stadium. Yeah. It was awesome. Yeah,
33:04
and we didn't even know that picture was happening when that happened. That was
33:07
like the Vikings the stadium pictures. Yeah, that they take. That's actually
33:10
kind of awesome that we were doing it at that point. It's also on
33:14
our school Hop website, so check that out the school Hop dot com.
33:19
Yeah. Yeah, there's no disagreements right there. Number eleven. I don't
33:25
even care who else you could name that has more number eleven for the Vikings.
33:30
It's obviously a currently available number for people to wear it does oh Naj
33:36
Thompson I think currently wears that number. He's the special team's ace. He
33:39
got a lot of like hype in the preseason last year. Cornerback. Yeah,
33:45
yeah, he's good. But yeah, Dante is the best number eleven
33:49
in Vikings history. Easily. I'm really regretting getting the odd numbers. I
33:54
feel like, especially in this like under twenty era. That's not an era,
34:01
but that's what I'm gonna use to describe it. Yeah, the under
34:06
twenty range. It's just really hard. It is difficult, especially, I
34:09
mean the Vikings. They're not the oldest franchise in the NFL by any stretch
34:14
of the imagination, but they've been around, what almost sixty years at this
34:17
point. Sixty one Yeah that was one name. Yeah, so over sixty
34:23
years at this point they've been around. So yeah, there's a lot of
34:27
guests. I'm on number twelve, right, Yeah, this is totally recency
34:31
bias for me. I'm sure if we were you know, I think I'm
34:37
totally active fans for every year of all of those sixty years. My answer
34:43
might be different, but I can't think of a better Viking than a better
34:47
number twelve Viking than William Percival Harvin, the third Percy Harvin. He's got
34:53
to be and that's says, so okay, he was. That is almost
35:00
my second most what could have been Viking? The guy could do literally anything
35:07
athletically. If you told me he could kick a seventy yard field goal,
35:10
I'd believe it. He was just electric. Just should have won MVP in
35:16
his career. I think the public I will say that his career derailed because
35:22
of his attitude and maybe he had an issue with marijuana, But like he
35:28
on the field, he was a man among boys, like he made everybody
35:32
else look dumb, and it was so much fun to watch. And at
35:37
least the Vikings got a good return out of him, because I think they
35:40
got two first round picks from the Seahawks, plus a couple of other picks
35:45
I don't even remember. I think it was two firsts and a third or
35:47
a first and two thirds. Either way, it was a decent haul for
35:51
a guy that clearly did not want to be in Minnesota anymore. But yeah,
35:53
one of my best memories was it's not a specific memory. I just
36:00
remember during his prime. During Percy's prime with the Vikings, we lived in
36:06
a dorm in the same building, and you roomed with a guy who was
36:09
a Florida fan, Yeah, which is where Percy Harvin went to school.
36:14
And so I remember talking about Percy Harvin that year in college all the time
36:20
because we spent a lot of time together that year, living down the hall
36:22
from each other, and you living with a guy that was a Florida fan,
36:28
Yeah, and he was definitely Percy was on a run too for the
36:31
Vikings of at least rookie offensive Rookie of the Year candidates. So obviously Adrian
36:37
Peterson won Rookie of the Year and O seven when he was drafted, and
36:42
then nine when Percy was drafted, he won Offensive Rookie of the Year.
36:45
And then I believe it was twenty Was it twenty twelve, No, I
36:52
was twenty thirteen, But it was cor Daryl Patterson, who I thought had
36:54
a really good shot at Offensive Rookie of the Year. I don't think he
36:58
ended up winning. I think it was and Allen that one that year,
37:00
but it just kind of seemed like, oh, they're they're pretty good every
37:04
couple of years drafting this like generational, good offensive player. And say what
37:09
you want about cord Aero Patterson. His physical abilities or have always been Harvin
37:15
like. But it's interesting to me how he's kind of shifted from being the
37:20
receiver kick returner that he was brought into the league as to now being more
37:25
of a running back. Well. I remember, within the first couple of
37:29
years of Cordero Patterson's Vikings career, a lot of people on Twitter, myself
37:35
included, were thinking, like, switch this guy to running back, like
37:38
he had some drop issues, I think, but once you got the ball
37:42
in his hands, like talk about man among boys like and not to derail
37:45
we're still talking about Percy here, but yeah, Corderio Patterson, he can
37:50
totally extend his career, and I think he has by embracing the running back
37:54
position. Excuse me, I'm burpin right now. I wish we could derail
38:00
further because I'm gonna struggle with number thirteen. Thirteen. Well, I think
38:06
I think I could come up with a recent name, but I don't know
38:08
if I could tell you the best. Oh, the list has Sean Hill.
38:14
Sean Hill he started at least a couple of games for the Vikings.
38:16
Yeah, he started the one right after Teddy his knee just ceased to exist
38:25
anymore. And then they traded for Sam Bradford. But they traded for Bradford
38:31
with like less than seven days before the first game of the season. So
38:36
Sean Hill had, you know, the opportunity to start. And I'm pretty
38:39
sure they won that game that he started. But yeah, I could see
38:45
that Hill had a couple of Viking stints. I think he had his best
38:51
time of his career as a forty nine er. I think I was gonna
38:54
say a buccaneer, but maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I thought, and I
38:59
might be mixing up up, you know, misremembering a guy or two.
39:01
But I think Sean Hill had if not a full season, maybe even two,
39:07
but a good chunk of time where he was the starting quarterback for the
39:09
forty nine ers. I think he started for the Brett Favre Greg Lewis miracle
39:15
game. He was the forty nine ers starting quarterback. Interesting, I might
39:19
be wrong. I'd put money that I'm right, though, Okay, I
39:22
could see if there's nobody else Sean Hill the best Viking number thirteen I've got
39:27
more number thirteens here, the newest American IDOL contestant, like prol I knew
39:34
he wore it. Josh Doctson, Oh yeah he was. They had a
39:39
few years where every year there seemed to be like a plug and play resert
39:45
random name receiver here, and Docson was one or Dotson Doctson Yeah, see
39:51
like doctor but Docson. I think he was brought in because he had played
39:54
in Washington with Kirk, just to get a little bit of that. Stacy
39:59
Coley okay, fifth, sixth, seventh round pick, never really did too
40:05
much. Kelly Hulcombe another one of those Brooks Ballinger era quarterbacks. I think
40:10
Holkem had a decent run with the Bills for a minute earlier in his career.
40:16
Everybody else on this list, there's a bunch of other ones. Gino
40:20
Torretta, Buggy Scribner, David Bruno, Steve Bono. We don't talk about
40:25
Bruno. These are all prior to our fandom pretty much. Okay, So
40:35
yeah, I think Sean Hill is probably the guy. Yeah, that's safe
40:37
to say. You get the easy ones still, though, Number fourteen,
40:44
Why is this not immediately easy for me? He plays for a different team
40:47
now he was Oh okay, I mean yeah, I'm glad he's not a
40:55
Viking anymore. He was pretty good fifth round pick Stefan Diggs. That's actually
41:00
for the Minneapolis Miracle. You can't can't ever take that away from him.
41:05
I'm sure that's who the list has. Yeah, yep, I was thinking,
41:07
didn't Joe Webb play number fourteen? Yeah? Obviously Stephan Diggs is a
41:12
better Viking than Joe Webb was, but that's for some reason. Joe Webb
41:15
was the first name that I had. Yeah, Stephan Diggs, that is
41:19
the easy answer. I can't think of anyone. Can you think of who
41:23
currently wears that number for the Vikings. Well, let's just look, and
41:28
this might again be an easy and easy answer here. I really can't think
41:34
I can think of one. He's one of those that went on to win
41:37
a super Bowl with another team. No, man, yeah, I'm stumped.
41:45
Really, he won a super Bowl with the Buccaneers, this most recent
41:52
Tom Brady Buccaneers super Bowl. No no, no? Oh oh okay,
41:57
So that kind of confused me because he was a Viking and then a Buccaneer
42:00
where he won the super Bowls and then came in and was a Viking again.
42:05
So you're talking about Brad Johnson. I think I even said his name
42:07
not too long ago on this episode. Yeah, okay, Joe Ebb,
42:13
Yes, Diggs, Yes, Sean Manion who has just recently retired. Yeah,
42:19
he's I think he's a Packers coaching staff member now current Viking to wear
42:24
fourteen. I already said I'm stumped on that. Oh, the the plus
42:30
size punter, plus size punter, But I mean still I still picture him
42:34
as a number sixty six. I don't know, didn't Kirk wear It's one
42:39
of our episodes, either on the website or Instagram or wearing that or maybe
42:45
TikTok, I have Kirk a picture of Kirk wearing that number sixty See he
42:50
did it for like one day. I think it was right after Wright made
42:55
the team and he was told like, you can't wear that number anymore.
42:59
But like so Kirk was like, all right, let's honor him a little
43:02
bit. Just goes to show how good of a teammate Kirk cousins is.
43:06
Fred Cox wore fourteen Cox, Cox and Cox. I just think of how
43:09
I met your mother. When Marshall is trying to work through some some intimate
43:15
issues in his bathroom and his dad's just pounded on the door. Yeah,
43:19
you remember who the best Vikings kicker of all time was Fred Cox and a
43:25
little more appropriate for the kids at home out there, George Shaw, George
43:30
quarterback. I think he might have been one of the first quarterbacks. Yeah,
43:34
that's not a franchise history. Yeah, that's not a nineteen remember nineteen
43:37
sixty one. Oh yeah, that was the first first year. So yeah,
43:42
all right, so you helped me out with that. So I'm going
43:45
to need some help on fifteen fifteen. Oh, I can think of one.
43:52
I don't know if he's the best, but I can definitely think of
43:54
one. I remember sitting in your basement in college when we got the official
44:00
news that this number fifteen signed with the Vikings number fifteen. In my basement,
44:07
he's a wide receiver. I'll give you my parents' basement. No,
44:09
your basement. This is the Franklin Street house. Okay, that basement,
44:14
all right. And we were literally watching How I met your mother with our
44:17
either then or future wives, I don't know timing, probably my then and
44:22
still current and your future and still Yeah, it's good clarifications. I have
44:31
only been and will only be married once. I'm stumped. I want to
44:35
know. So the name I'm thinking of is Greg Jennings. Oh yeah,
44:38
former packer form packer. Yeah, that's a good he's a good fifteen.
44:45
What does the list say, Yeah, Greg jennsays Greg Jennings. So I
44:50
remember one of the first times I really got on the bandwagon of like,
44:55
you know how every year there's always like one or two guys that are bubble
45:00
and you know they're not going to be, you know, major starters,
45:02
but you want your team. You want them to make your team because he's
45:06
got a good story. I feel like there was one he wore number fifteen.
45:08
He was a wide receiver, Martin nance In like the early two thousands.
45:13
Yeah, he's on this list. Yeah, he was one of the
45:16
first guys that I would like wanted to make the team because I liked his
45:22
story. But obviously I don't think he ever did make the team. One
45:25
player that's on this list of all the Vikings to wear fifteen, and this
45:30
was just last year. I think another Vikings Wire article that I'm just looking
45:35
at here one of my favorite plays of all time, and we've talked about
45:39
this on the podcast before. But to me, this was this was a
45:45
defining moment for Kevin O'Connell when when Kevin O'Connell became the head coach, the
45:52
culture of the team shifted pretty dramatically, and this player wouldn't have made this
45:58
play Mike Zimmer still been his coach. Do you know who I'm talking about?
46:02
Oh? You're totally talking about another wide receiver played for Iowa. Wow?
46:08
What? Yep? This is so dumb that I can't think of his
46:12
name. I know exactly who it is. He won a Super Bowl with
46:15
the Chiefs last season, not the twenty three twenty four season. I don't
46:20
even know where he is this year or where he played. He played with
46:22
Adam Thielen in Carolina at least for a good chunk. I think he was
46:27
their primary punt returner. Man, it's a hyphenated name. Yep. I
46:34
need some help Smith Marsett and me or Smith. Yeah, yea, there
46:37
it is, okay, Yeah, iowahaw gye so an Iowa boy. And
46:40
yeah, I've talked about it on this podcast and I've said several times the
46:46
play I'm referring to is was it against the Bears? I think it was
46:52
against the Bears early twenty twenty two. I know the play and I know
46:57
Smith Marsett was involved in that play. You have the wrong Viking? Have
47:02
the wrong Viking? You do you do? Oh? He was the one
47:07
that the ball was ripped away. Yes, Cam Dancler, Cam dance the
47:10
ball away from Smith Marsett, and I know it was he was involved.
47:15
Yeah, that was the last good thing Cam Dancler did in a Viking uniform,
47:21
maybe the last good thing he's done in the NFL. But yeah,
47:25
the wires were there. I could see the road where you were running down.
47:30
But yeah, it was Smith Marsett that Smith Marsett was involved on that
47:32
play. He didn't he he did fumble, and the fumble will show up
47:37
on his stat line. But Cam Danceler ripped the ball out in his hands,
47:42
if you remember, and our listeners won't care. This is kind of
47:45
like guys talking about their fantasy teams. But you and I your first US
47:51
Bank Stadium game, Bears Viking's last head coaching game of Mike Zimmer's career so
47:57
far, last game Matt Naggy coached as a head coach of the Bears.
48:02
The game first half of Vikings were down, they were going to lose,
48:06
they were down multiple touchdowns. I'm pretty sure second half Smith Marsett caught like
48:10
two touchdowns and had over one hundred yards. I think all in the second
48:15
half had a career day. You know why. He was inspired by those
48:19
ultimate Frisbee guys. Yeah, that halftime. I think one of the guy
48:23
that caught the crazy touchdown, he's like a viking Twitter. I mean,
48:30
he may be somebody we've interacted with, may even be somebody, and I
48:34
maybe speaking out of hand here, I think it's somebody who Dustin Baker knows
48:37
and interacts with. Sweet I'm I'm sorry if I'm wrong on that, but
48:44
yeah, I've seen something on Twitter where the guy's like, yeah, that
48:45
was me the most exciting part of the game. No, I was at
48:49
that game. You were the most exciting part of the game. Well,
48:52
if you were that guy, you should reach out to us. We want
48:54
to talk to you. I could probably look on my Twitter and figure it
48:58
out, because that was the most the exciting part of that game. But
49:00
again, maybe maybe a mayor Smith Marsett was inspired by that had to have
49:07
been Okay, so it's my turn, and I just did what I accused
49:10
you of doing earlier number sixteen. I do have a name, all right,
49:16
Matt Castle. Okay, he might be the best pace shouldn't last sixteen?
49:22
He was? He was? Okay, Yeah, he started a few
49:24
games right before the Teddy Bridgewater era. Who does the list has rich Gannon?
49:30
That's yeah, that's tough. I feel like didn't he wear number twelve
49:35
at various points in his career too? Maybe as a rich Gannon is an
49:38
NFL MVP, and I think it was as a Raider wearing the number twelve,
49:43
So yeah, I did. Forget about rich Gannon. You could argue
49:46
who had the better Viking career because I think Gannon's another one of those quarterbacks
49:52
who has won a Super Bowl elsewhere. Yep. Unfortunately, Yeah, I'm
49:57
still saying, Matt Castle, you have a couple op here for number seventeen.
50:01
Yeah. I just cheated a little bit because I scrolled a little too
50:05
far on the list. But I like this name, so I'm just gonna
50:07
roll with it. I like Jerrus right, Yeah, oh yeah, remember
50:13
him and Greg Childs came in together. Yeah, Child's just blew out both
50:17
of his knees. But yeah, Jerrus right, Jerious Right was a great
50:22
receiver. Didn't he do some kick returning too, or punt return I think
50:25
the punt returning a little bit. I'll never forget it was either the preseason
50:30
or early on in his rookie year. He had a savvy move as a
50:35
punt returner. It was one of those where the ball was obviously punted way
50:40
back into the end zone and Jerrus Right he ran up to like the twenty
50:45
five yard line, knowing the ball was going to go way behind him,
50:49
and he was like fake track in this ball like he was about to catch
50:52
it at the twenty five yard line and baited another one of the opposing teams
51:00
players to run right into him and get a penalty and get some good yards.
51:05
He knew he was gonna get hit. I think it was in the
51:07
preseason, but I think it was Melvin. I don't know. It doesn't
51:13
matter, it doesn't matter, but I do. I'll never forget that he
51:15
had this savvy move where he baited somebody into hitting him and getting penalty yards.
51:21
Jerry Swright was a good one currently until his contract is done because he's
51:25
a pending free agent. kJ Osborne, Yeah, yeah, he's another good
51:32
one to wear seventeen, I mean, maybe arguably a better seventeen when his
51:38
Vikings career is over. He always was on the verge, he Yeah,
51:43
he's always been. He had to play third fiddle to JJ and Adam Thielen
51:52
when Adam was around, and then Adam left before the twenty three season,
51:57
and then Jordan Addison was drafted, and again kJ found himself kind of playing
52:02
third fiddle, and then when JJ got hurt, we all kind of hoped
52:07
that kJ would elevate himself into that one or two spot and it didn't really
52:14
happen. Brandon Powell kind of emerged, and yeah, a smattering of other
52:21
players did. But yeah, it's pretty sad that brand Powell took snaps away
52:24
from kJ. Yeah, which he totally did. But yeah, and it's
52:30
also kind of sad that, in my personal opinion, I'd rather them sign
52:34
Brandon Powell back than kJ, more so for pricing. But so, what
52:39
do you think we're on the verge of number eighteen? What do you think
52:43
if we go through number nineteen and then leave twenty on for another future one
52:49
off episode? Yep, all right, so I'm number eighteen, right,
52:52
I have a layup for number nineteen. I don't know. I can't think
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of anybody that's that's worn eighteen for the Vikings. Really, no, I'm
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surprised I could say that with a straight face. Okay, obviously, now
53:07
I think, and I don't know how long, maybe just like an offseason
53:09
or his rookie preseason Randy Moss wore number eighteen for the Vike is. Yeah,
53:15
you can find a number eighteen Randy Moss jersey out there. He definitely
53:19
find pictures of him in it. But the clear cut and easiest answer for
53:23
anybody that's ever heard of football is mister Justin Jefferson himself. He will go
53:30
down, hopefully if they can get him re signed as the best eighteen,
53:36
one of the best Vikings of all time. He's on a Hall of Fame
53:40
track. I think if he plays the same way he's been playing for the
53:45
next three four more years, then it almost doesn't matter what he does after
53:51
that, like instant Hall of famer, best Viking on the team currently in
53:55
my opinion, and one that he will be the highest paid non quarterback in
54:00
NFL history at some point in his career, hopefully soon. And we've already
54:05
talked about how great. He is off the field too. I mean he's
54:08
just everything that Randy Moss was on the field. JJ is plus yeah that
54:16
off the field, Yeah, Like Randy Moss had a ton of off the
54:20
field issues and we've just we haven't heard anything negative about JJ. There is
54:27
no straight cash homie scenario with JJ. I mean that whole joke with straight
54:30
cash homie. Is he like Randy Moss, Like he ran somebody over and
54:37
there was a fine and somebody in the parking lott as he was walking to
54:42
is super expensive, you know, Cadillac, whatever, Escalade, whatever it
54:46
was. How are you going to pay Randy? How are you gonna pay
54:50
for the fun straight cash homie? Like it's fun to think about, Like
54:52
that's a funny it's a funny sound right now, but that's still Like if
54:57
something like that happened right now with any Viking player in the moment, we'd
55:01
be like, what are they? Are they gonna get rid of him?
55:06
Like this is horrible? Like what what the heck? JJ has only ever
55:10
said the politically correct thing in front of in front of the media, Like
55:16
he seems to be a good dude, Like the PR department rallies around him,
55:23
like you can tell, like if they don't push somebody, Like if
55:28
you don't see videos of this guy serving soup at like the Thanksgiving thing,
55:32
Like maybe the PR department knows they don't need to focus on this guy,
55:37
but like JJ, they always show him doing stuff. Yeah, he's without
55:42
a doubt, the best Viking eighteen of all time. Well, and in
55:45
Randy Moss, we're not to eighty four yet. No, Randy Moss came
55:52
into the league with a ton of issues already. I mean, he had
55:54
lost two Division one scholarships before even making his way to the NFL, and
56:01
when he did make his way to the NFL, he was still dealing with
56:05
stuff. He had that electric rookie season in ninety eight and that ended in
56:08
heartbreak, and he had a bunch of great seasons after that with Minnesota.
56:14
Then he jumped around and played really well because he's a great athlete. But
56:19
his past kind of followed him wherever he went. And I think now that
56:22
he's he's beyond his playing years. He's had some really really good years with
56:28
ESPN. I think he's now finally past all of that, and he's he's
56:34
really made a name for himself more as a broadcaster than he has as a
56:38
player. In my mind, yeah, I was going to say, to
56:43
Rainy's credit, he's not still consistently in the news for negative things. Like
56:47
Yes, he is, by all, you know, everything we can tell,
56:52
a positive member of society and has gotten his life fully together at least
57:00
to the point that we don't hear about him in trouble or in any negative
57:05
light like Randy again, also seems like a good dude. But JJ,
57:08
and we could even go back to like Percy Harvin. I gushed it twenty
57:13
minutes ago, gushed over Percy Harvin. How what could have been if it
57:16
wasn't for his off the field stuff. I think JJ is every bit as
57:23
good, if not way better than Percy, even maybe Randy, with the
57:30
extreme benefit of we have yet to have to worry about that guy off the
57:36
field. Yep. And you never know things. Something could pop up for
57:39
anybody anytime, anywhere. But I mean, you think at this point if
57:45
he was going to be an habitual problem, something would have popped up by
57:47
now. So yeah, JJ, I'm all for JJ give him a lifetime
57:52
contract. Yeah, definitely. The list says it, We've said it.
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I don't think anybody else would argue there's no better number eighteen in Viking's history
58:05
than JJ, and there's some maybe some obvious recency bias there too, But
58:10
yeah, I don't know. I just I don't know that you're going to
58:13
find another better player with that number than him. And I think number nineteen's
58:17
pretty easy for me too. Me too, we have the same guy.
58:21
Yeah, well, you got me his jersey as a gift, which was
58:24
totally bad that it's a little too big, But no, it's great.
58:29
I love it. And the next time I go to a game, guess
58:32
what I'm wearing. There, you go, I'm wearing that jersey and I'll
58:37
wear it undoubtedly before then as well. But yeah, Adam thelen number nineteen.
58:45
The great thing about Adam Thielen is he is a Minnesota boy and we're
58:51
not. I'm a Minnesota boy by birth, but I'm more of an Iowa
58:54
boy by longevity. And I take pride in the statementesta just because I am
59:00
such a big Vikings for sure, and you're an Iowa native. Yeah,
59:04
but like I don't know Iowa and Minnesota. There's kind of this like reciprocity
59:07
almost where it's like we're so close and we have a lot of the same
59:13
values, maybe some political differences between Iowa and Minnesota, but also of the
59:20
big cities. Every outside of big cities. Yeah, yeah, Iowa and
59:23
Minnesota think the same. All in all. I think if Adam Feelen were
59:29
to have come from an Iowa high school, like we'd be like, yes,
59:35
that guy, he's one of us. And he didn't go to an
59:39
Iowa high school, so we're not that crazy about him, but we're still
59:44
like, yeah, he's still crazy about him. And I think for the
59:46
phenomenal play for the fact that he went to what Detroit Lakes, Like that's
59:51
I mean, that's the whole bit, Like yeah, to the point that
59:53
it's like, hey, did you hear Adam Feelen went to Detroit Lakes and
59:57
you went on drafted, Like that's a funny bit to say, But like,
1:00:00
I think he's even that much more loved on top of it's not fake.
1:00:04
It wasn't, you know, rose colored glasses. He at his prime,
1:00:08
which unfortunately I think he's out of now. Yeah, for sure,
1:00:13
at his prime was undoubtedly a pro Bowl wide receiver, an electric wide receiver,
1:00:20
somebody that defenses had to plan around. I roll my eyes when other,
1:00:25
you know, players of other teams do it. But I loved it
1:00:29
when he would like get hit and look up and like point at the other
1:00:31
sideline and just go nuts and like grab a rep and like what do you
1:00:35
mean? I don't know what's going on, but like I love the like
1:00:37
fire and the passion and this seems like a good dude too. Like,
1:00:42
is that one infamous little scene that he had with Bill Bellicheah and he like
1:00:45
pointed at him or something. They're kind of going at each other, not
1:00:49
physically, but just kind of pointing and talking, I'm sure, And like,
1:00:53
yeah, he he has that fire inside of him and he's just that
1:01:00
he is. He is a competitor. Yeah, and you want that and
1:01:06
you like that, and you hey, you no, you really do appreciate
1:01:13
that. And a player though, and when yeah, when you get a
1:01:16
guy like him, you hang on to him for as long as you can,
1:01:20
and then he costs too much money and you have to send him elsewhere.
1:01:23
Yeah, and good. He had all things considered decent, decent season
1:01:30
with Carolina and twenty three. Unfortunately that was probably the best part of their
1:01:36
season. But with a young rookie quarterback who's number one overall, and you
1:01:43
know he won't be a rookie next season, but a new coach and an
1:01:49
established veteran wide receiver, maybe they can. Maybe Carolina can do some good
1:01:54
things the next couple of years. Was Adam's deal a one year deal or
1:01:59
is he Panther for a while prior to the twenty three season. I believe
1:02:02
he signed a three three year deal for like twenty five ish million dollars,
1:02:07
so he should be established in Carolina unless he gets to be a cap casualty
1:02:14
or anything. But I feel like that wouldn't be the case in the second
1:02:17
year, so he should still be set to be a Panther for at least
1:02:22
the twenty four season, if not beyond. I don't think definitely, not
1:02:29
dollars wise, but I don't think even position group wise, it would ever
1:02:32
make sense to bring him back to Minnesota, although if you're looking at JJ
1:02:37
and Jordan Addison and then nobody else behind that, like it would be kind
1:02:44
of nice to have an ATOM feeling again, but I think that's just a
1:02:47
pipe dream. I hope he signs a one day contract and retires of Viking.
1:02:54
That would be that would be special, and I think everybody in Minnesota
1:02:58
would be on board with that too. So well we got up to nineteen,
1:03:02
which is queerfect. Yeah, twenty athletes. So yeah, we'll keep
1:03:07
this series rolling. This was fun and we'll definitely have to finish it off
1:03:14
now that we've started. Yeah, and you know what, I'll challenge our
1:03:16
listeners if you can think of any other Viking that is better than who we
1:03:21
named, or maybe you just like a different Viking at a certain number than
1:03:27
who he named. I'm pretty sure Dante came in as a rookie and War
1:03:30
number twelve for a little bit. Maybe not during, yeah, maybe just
1:03:35
in the off season. Have his rookie card right there, it's number twelve,
1:03:37
and we already talked about how Randy a similar situation, maybe even just
1:03:42
the off season of his rookie year, War number eighteen. Let us know
1:03:45
if you can think of somebody who's better, or maybe it shouldn't be Dalvin
1:03:50
Cook, maybe it should be Brett Farv at number four. So let us
1:03:52
know if you think of anything or anybody we're forgetting. Yeah, we didn't
1:03:58
mention somebody that should be mentioned in the list. Please, yeah, let
1:04:01
us know. Absolutely. So we got to finish this beer here. Yeah,
1:04:05
I got a little bit left. I got a little bit left as
1:04:08
well. This bulldog blonde blonde ale from Five Cities? What do you think?
1:04:14
I like it? And we've both had it before. I think we
1:04:16
both knew what we were getting into when we crack these open tonight. And
1:04:21
I mean, if I only had this in my fridge, I wouldn't complain.
1:04:27
Oh yeah, if they outlawed every other alcohol except for this, Like
1:04:30
I mean, sure, i'd be sad that I wouldn't have IPAs again,
1:04:33
but like, okay, I'm not too sad. This is really good.
1:04:38
Yeah, this is super delicious yep. And it makes me think too,
1:04:42
like why don't I get this more often? Like I need to just get
1:04:44
this more often rather than try to go outside and try some weird blueberry ipa
1:04:49
or something like, I just need to get the bulldog blonde, like just
1:04:54
start off with that and then go from there. But yeah, I like
1:04:58
it a lot. I'll always like it. Please, never changed the recipe
1:05:01
or do anything to it. It's perfect the way it is five Cities yep.
1:05:05
And we like that we can get it right here, yeah, absolutely
1:05:10
so, I mean, shoot within fifteen minutes. We could probably have a
1:05:13
fresh off the tap one if we wanted to go easily less than fifteen.
1:05:17
I mean it's just a few minutes away. Yep. But good beer,
1:05:21
good conversation, one that we will definitely continue at some point and we'll have
1:05:28
to finish off the list. I mean, we got through nineteen, so
1:05:30
we've got this was a good idea, Thanks V. I had a lot
1:05:33
of fun with us. No eighty more numbers, well tonight twenty to ninety
1:05:39
nine, so that's eighty yeah, because you count twenty yeah cool. Well,
1:05:45
yeah, we'll have to split that up over who knows how many episodes.
1:05:47
Maybe twenty numbers per episode is like the perfect unless we have, like
1:05:51
I don't know, a boom boom, boom boom, although I feel like
1:05:56
the teen's kind of in some way turned into a boom. I mean,
1:05:58
there's a lot of really good players from zero to nineteen. So we've been
1:06:03
talking for over an hour at this point, over an hour. Yeah,
1:06:08
but it's been good, and like I said, beer is good. Yeah,
1:06:13
and we'll always we'll always bring you good Iowa beer and somewhat entertaining Vikings
1:06:21
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1:06:25
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1:06:28
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We've got a website and we're pretty much everywhere on social media that you can
1:06:36
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1:06:47
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1:07:00
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1:07:15
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