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The guys reveal their Top 10 Vikings’ players of all time! | TSH Ep. 35 · The Skol Hop

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  All right, Hey, Vikings fans, welcome into another episode of the School.
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  Hot I'm Evan and I'm Austin. There's a couple of dudes from Iowa.
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  We're like drinking beer talking about the Vikings. We do. We enjoy
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  both of those things. We should scol really quick. We should. There's
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  a hair on my cup, hopefully it's not mine. Either way, it's
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  beer School. What are we drinking today? Today? We've got I think
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  our second ever no Coast Brewing Company, no Coast Beer Company beer. Uh
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  yeah, I think that's No Coast Beer Company. Yep. I wasted way
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  too much time on that. Let's talk about what actually matters. It is,
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  No coasts make waves. Amber ale yeah, and uh yeah amber ale
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  for are five point two percent and it's very amber. Yeah. It taste.
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  It's got a heavy amber flavor in the best way possible. You noticed
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  a few things about it? Yeah, The ingredients on the can we're kind
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  of listed out in their description here. Uh brewed with British ale yeast roasted
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  barley and special b malt, which I don't know what any of those things
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  mean, but they just sound good and they come together to make a really
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  tasty delicious beer. Yeah, I like it a lot. And Ambers they're
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  not my number one, but I mean, shoot, they're they're getting close
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  to favorable types of beer for me. Obviously, the hazy IPAs those are
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  my jam but these Amber beers. Maybe it's the time of year two,
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  but you you were in harder of bringing the beer today and this is what
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  you chose. So I think much like when we were ten years old and
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  I influenced you to become a Vikings fan, I might be influencing you to
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  kind of adopt some new tastes and beer. Yeah you know what of maybe
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  amber beers won't consistently hurt me as much as the Vikings have. So well,
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  we're going to focus on the positives. Yeah, today we've got a
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  little bit of a special episode. We're kind of breaking away from our normal
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  kind of week to week where we recap the previous game and look ahead to
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  the next game, and we wanted to take some time and consider kind of
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  our top ten Vikings players of all time. Yeah, it's a good topic
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  one that any team. Could you could do this for any team, any
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  position group. We just went Vikings and overall players and this could be anybody
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  I think we kind of set some ground rules. Yep. You and I
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  were texting back and forth and you had mentioned, you know, like,
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  hey, let's avoid like Brett Favre's, you know, guys that have only
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  been around for a season or two, focusing in more on guys that spent
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  most of their careers with the Vikings. Yeah, guys that the NFL doesn't
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  do it. Like when you get in the Hall of Fame, you don't
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  go in as a member of a certain team. You just go in as
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  a player, and you represent all the teams you do. But I think
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  baseball is the one that when you go in the Hall, like your cap
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  is the team that you select of any of the teams that you played for.
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  So technically, like Brett Favre, he's a Hall of Fame quarterback and
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  maybe one of the best quarterbacks to ever play for the Vikings. But him
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  specifically, we kind of left off the list because he's obviously an all time
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  packer and he played two seasons one really good one forgettable one with the Vikings
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  and yeah, so yeah, that was a lot of fun. But as
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  far as top ten of all time, I don't know if he qualifies for
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  Vikings. Yeah, and you also, I mean we kind of took different
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  approaches I guess we could say when we compiled our list. And also I
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  think we can talk about that in a minute. But it's important to note
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  for the listener the viewer out there that we also haven't revealed sure our lists
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  to each other. So when we reveal our picks to our listeners, we're
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  also revealing them to each other for the first time. Yeah, how do
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  we want to play this though in a little on air production meeting? If
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  we both like, if you say a player and that player is also on
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  my list or vice versa, do we want to reveal that right away?
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  Like if I say you know John Smith and you're like, oh, yeah,
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  again, actually he's on my list, Like you ranked them, right,
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  you have a one, two, three, I just have a group.
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  Anyone on my list is just on the list. I don't have number
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  one, number two, number three. Well, how about at this,
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  how about I lead off? Okay, and I will go in order ten
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  to one. I also have two honorable mentions, Okay, so we'll go
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  ten to one before we get to my first pick. I can list off
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  my honorable mentions, Okay, and then you can reveal your picks as you
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  see fit. If there is a match and you want to talk about that,
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  you can, or if you want to go in a different direction,
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  you could too. I think that makes sense because we'll kind of go in
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  order for your list and mine can it just exists. Mine is just if
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  you let the ten guys into a room, there is no order, it's
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  just there in the room. Yours is, Hey, who's in there first?
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  Like, And I'll be honest too, My list is ranked very subjectively
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  from my perspective. We were even talking before we started rolling that it's kind
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  of difficult to account for some of the historical Vikings players that we never had
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  the opportunity to watch play. And there have been some phenomena all players that
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  have played for this organization, and we just weren't alive to see them.
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  Yeah, we were born in the early nineties, and you could argue the
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  greatest Viking years we're in like the seventies, you know. Yeah, so
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  we didn't even get to see live, feel live the highlights of being a
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  Vikings fan back then. We don't know what it's like to have a Vikings
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  team in the Super Bowl, and we've come close, but it might be
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  a wire hopefully soon. But yeah, we'll see. Oh well, yeah,
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  we are pre recording this and technically the twenty three to twenty four season
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  is still happening. It would be awesome to have to display like a banner
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  above, like as you're saying that, like we didn't know, we didn't
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  know. The vikings are not at the end of the twenty three to twenty
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  four season, will not be Super Bowl champions again overwhelmingly likely, But it
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  would be really fun to have to like disclaimer that that would be great.
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  Yeah, oh well unlikely. Do we want to dive in? Let's do
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  it all right, so you go first, You're number ten. I also
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  have a few honorable mentions three technically, but we'll save those right before our
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  first picks or our final picks. Ok so, number ten on my list.
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  Let me see if let's see if you can guess the player? Oh
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  man, am I just cold trying to guess? Yeah, I'll give you
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  stats. This should be pretty obvious. But current player Okay, twenty twenty
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  to the present, three hundred and eighty receptions, five thousand and seven yards,
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  twenty nine touchdowns, two hundred and fifty seven first downs, three time
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  Pro Bowl, probably four if I had to guess, all time or sorry,
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  all Pro in twenty two. He was the Offensive Rookie of the Year
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  in twenty twenty and Offensive Player of the Year in twenty two. Well,
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  I was going to make a joke about the other first round pick the Vikings
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  had in twenty twenty, but then I realized his current situation, thought that
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  that might be a little tacky. So obviously he is not on my list,
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  really, but that is the great JJ, that is justin Jefferson.
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  Yeah, correct, So yeah, he's not on my list. Just when
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  it's all said and done, he would probably be in my top ten.
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  But right now, it's just it's not said and done at this point.
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  Although I get that he is a player that if right now, like somebody
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  came up and chopped both his legs off and he would never ever play another
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  snap of football ever again, he would still be one of the greatest Vikings
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  of all time. After almost four full seasons, three full seasons, three
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  full seasons, this is his fourth and I mean he sat out I don't
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  know how many games this season, so that was out seven or something like
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  that hamstring injury really really put a hamper on his season, and the timing
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  of it with the bye week approaching and they were playing well without him,
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  you know. I think that had an effect too. But anyways, I
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  think he's on the list again. Subjectively my opinion, he's not a top
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  five yet. He might get there. And I think if he continues to
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  play at the rate that he has oh in his first four seasons, and
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  he can avoid injury and he's got a good quarterback throwing in balls, then
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  I think he easily cracks anybody's top five. He's just been lights out arguably
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  the best offensive player in the league pretty much since he started in twenty twenty.
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  Yeah, and he's one of the few guys that, when his career
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  is all said and done, he's one of the few non quarterbacks that you
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  could argue any given year could be an MVP candidate. And he was an
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  MVP candidate. I think he finished fifth in twenty two in the MVP voting,
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  and he was on a tear to start off the twenty three season.
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  It's just he got that unfortunate injury and then other things happened. Kirk went
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  down, which hindered his performance and ability little bit too. But like,
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  when it's all said and done, if he plays fifteen years, it's it
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  wouldn't be a shock if he got the MVP during one of the seasons of
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  his career. So yeah, I'm not arguing just because he's not on my
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  list. I'm not saying he's not worthy. Good pick. Thanks, Who
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  do you got? All right? So, man, I almost I don't
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  know which order to go in. I'll I'll go from the last guy I
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  had listed, which is also again not in any order of being the last
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  guy I had another current player. Maybe maybe you can guess. Okay,
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  I might think we might add the same one. Yeah, he might be
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  my next one too. Oh yeah, it could be interesting. All right,
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  go ahead, Well, he was a first rounder. I won't say
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  the year. He's got four total touchdowns. He's a six time pro bowler.
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  Though it should be more. It absolutely should be more. And here's
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  where it starts to to focus in a little bit. He's got nineteen and
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  a half sacks, he has over one thousand total tackles, thirty four interceptions,
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  eighty four past deflections, twelve force fumbles, eight fumble recoveries, and
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  he guesses yet Oh yeah, do you want to keep going? Well,
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  do you have a guess? I know who I mean because we have identical
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  stats listed. This is Harrison Smith. This is Harrison and he's my number
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  nine. Nice okay, Harry, Harry the Hitman would say, this guy,
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  we could have a whole podcast episode or series of podcasts on this guy.
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  Seems like a fantastic dude. Like, we've never heard of him being
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  in trouble. We've never heard anything bad about him off the field. He's
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  rarely injured. He's always on the field, always making a play. Rarely
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  do we complain about like, oh, dang, Harry really missed that?
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  Sure, has he missed a player two here and there, Yes, everybody
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  has. He's been in the league for ten seasons at this point, and
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  he definitely takes advantage of the veteran like kind of time off. Oh yeah,
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  during the week, you know, I don't even know what they call
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  it or how it or its rest days and stuff. But in the week,
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  yeah, he'll take advantage of those. And I don't blame him.
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  I mean, he he's out there grinding. I think he's probably played more
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  snaps since he was drafted than any other Viking. Maybe if I had to
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  guess, Yeah, I think he's the longest tenured Viking at this moment,
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  like active tenured Viking. Twenty twelve was his first season. I don't think
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  we said that. Yep, he was drafted in twenty twelve, twenty ninth
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  overall, and I'm pretty sure the Vikings traded for that pick. I don't
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  remember. He's a Notre Dame guy too, right, Yeah, Notre Dame
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  guy. Just fantastic. And one thing that surprised me he had a I
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  think it was a Brian Robinson ninety six Questions or something, some kind of
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  a video like that in this twenty three twenty four season during the season where
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  I think it was the ninety six Questions, Robison was going around interviewing players
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  and asking different players different questions, and he asked Harrison Smith, like,
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  who, who other than you would be the vocal guy, who would be
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  the leader on the defense, And Harrison Smith he gave an answer that kind
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  of surprised me. It was something to the tune of like, well,
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  I'm kind of a quiet guy in the in the meeting rooms and the locker
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  rooms and stuff. I'm kind of quiet, but he hyped up Josh Mattellus
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  as that vocal in the moment leader, the guy you follow, and I
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  think Harrison Smith, while he may not be super vocal and raw, raw
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  and you know, leading the huddle and stuff, he's definitely the one where
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  it's you watch him. He leads by example. If Harry can do it,
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  I can do it. I think earlier in this season he led up
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  on getting an easy pick because he saw Byron Murphy yep, and he was
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  saying, like you you you, and Byron Murphy picked it off. And
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  he's just a leader and a good guy. I think he wants to be
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  a Viking his whole career. I'd love that. Yeah, he will be
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  one of the quote unquote fifty greatest Vikings to ever do that list ever again,
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  Yeah, I definitely agree. And like I said, we had almost
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  identical stats listed for him. I mean he really he just emblemizes, I
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  think, what it means to be a Viking. He is a Viking through
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  and through. I would have to guess before the late great Bug Grant passed
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  away that he looked at Harrison Smith and thought he's he's a rare player in
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  today's league. He would have fit in back in those sixties and seventies era
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  Vikings teams that were just tough, gritty, nose to the grindstone. They're
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  going to go out and just play, even if there's blood on their jersey,
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  even if they've got a broken finger or whatever. I would have to
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  guess. I'm not going to put words in his mouth, but I would
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  have to guess that that was maybe something that was thought about, and like
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  I said, he just truly implemizes that. That's the best word that I
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  can find what it means to be a Vikings player. Yeah. I think
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  we joke about how TJ. Hockinson he looks like the logo. We call
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  him logo. It's not other people do too, it's not unique to us.
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  But while Harry the Hitman, he doesn't look like the logo, he
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  probably to his core is the logo, you know what I mean, Like
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  he is the Viking. And one final note from me on Harrison Smith is
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  when he got drafted in his first couple of leagues. In the year since
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  then, we've seen a shift in the NFL that favors the offense and really
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  penalizes the hard, gruesome hits from the defenders. Really favors offensive wide receivers
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  and quarterbacks, especially being protected from those hits where the defenders get penalized all
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  the time. For the most part, he has very successfully. He was
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  elite in the old era where you could just knock a guy's head off and
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  almost never get penalized, and I'd argue he's elite in this new era where
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  I mean you got to mean more safety focus and not try to murder people
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  on the field, And he's kind of evolved his game to be able to
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  to work in both kinds of place styles and maybe him getting older the favor
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  is that the newer style of not having to rip everybody's head off too.
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  I don't know, he's great. I love him. I want him to
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  be a Viking forever. Agreed. Well, I've already revealed two of my
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  picks, so you've got to true you gotta reveal another one. All right,
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  Well that was just Frankly, I have three pieces of paper in front
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  of me, and he was the only one on the third paper. So
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  that was Harrison was the only one on the third paper. It's kind of
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  so I got rid of one piece of paper functional at that point, so
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  I will go where else am I going to go here? I'm just gonna
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  do it, and we'll have you guess again. All right. I like
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  this guessing thing, all right. This young man was a first round pick
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  for the Vikings. I'm trying to think of some of these stats that won't
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  immediately give it up. A seven time pro bowler, he has three hundred
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  and five receptions for two four hundred and seventy four yards. Oh, also
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  a caveat. When I was gathering stats, some of a lot of these
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  guys played most of their careers with the Vikings, but played they may have
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  had some one off years. I couldn't figure out an easy way to gather
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  stats that focused on their Viking years. So any stat I say is going
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  to be for their whole career, even if they're with other teams. So,
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  yeah, twenty four and seventy four receiving yards, six receiving touchdowns,
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  the twenty twenty twelve NFL MVP, fourteen and eighteen rushing yards and one hundred
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  and twenty rushing touchdowns, And any clue who this might be. It's not
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  a player that's on my list. I can tell you that is it.
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  Percy Harvin. It is not Percy Harvin. Really the twenty twenty twelve NFL
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  MVP, the most recent Viking NFL MVP. You gave receiving stats, though,
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  where then I gave rushing stuck Adrian Peterson? Yes, okay, he
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  is on my list. Okay, you threw me off with the receiver.
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  Was trying to give away stats. I didn't immediately do it, That's fair.
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  I had receiver in my head, which is why I guess yeah Harbon.
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  Yeah, so it might not have even been on the team in twenty
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  twelve. I think he was a rookie in twenty two. No, he
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  was a rookie in O nine because that was far his first years of Viking.
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  Okay, anyways, he may not have been a Viking by the time
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  twenty twelve came around. Honestly, anyways, this is Adrian Peterson. Yeah,
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  he's on my list, And we could talk for hours on should he
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  be on any list because of off the field stuff. Ultimately, on the
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  field, he is one of the best Vikings of all time, definitely the
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  best running back. We have a jersey of arguably the second best Vikings running
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  back in Robert Smith, hanging right between us. I say arguably because I
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  think Dalvin pushed his way into that conversation too. Yeah, Adrian MVP like
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  that for me, that's all you need to say. MVP. Every Vikings
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  MVP should be on this list. And that may be a spoiler for the
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  rest of my list a little bit, but yeah, he's just he was
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  one of my first favorite players. I think we were in high school when
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  he was drafted oh seven. Yeah. Yeah, just an elite, elite,
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  elite player, and at the running back position. He was elite for
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  longer than most elite running backs are good. He's very durable, yeah for
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  sure. And I don't think you gave his rushing stats. He's on my
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  list. We'll get to that in a second. But he had two four
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  hundred and eighteen carries and this is the stats I was looking at. These
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  are just his Viking stuff. Okay, okay, twy four hundred and eighteen
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  carries for eleven seven hundred and forty seven yards ninety seven touchdowns. Yeah,
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  so he had over one hundred touchdowns as a Viking. It's just between rushing
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  and receiving. And he also was the league leading rusher three times eight his
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  MVP season twenty twelve and twenty fifteen, and he led the league in yards
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  per game four times seven eight, twenty twelve and twenty fifteen. Yeah,
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  just durable, elite. The most games he missed were for off the field
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  reasons. He tore his ACL and missed one game. Not granted. Yeah
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  that's a little deceiving because there's a whole off season between that. But yeah,
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  just durable, a physical freak. Put up numbers and you said,
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  what do you lead it in eight, twenty twelve and twenty fifteen. Think
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  about the stretch of time. There are whole running back high and low careers
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  that happened between twenty twelve and twenty fifteen, and he spanned it being very
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  good for almost a decade. For the Vikings, he's definitely one of the
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  greatest Vikings of all time, hands down. Yeah. And to be a
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  non quarterback to win the MVP, that's that's no small feat. Do you
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  want to take a guess as to where I have ap in my list?
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  Ooh, I think he's top five. He is top five. I think
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  you've got him number three. No way, really, this is not planned.
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  I have no idea. Yep, number three, nice fair fair spot
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  form. We can jump over that when we get there, I mean,
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  we'll give him, we'll give him another thumbs up when we get around to
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  it. But yeah, he's he's one of the greats. Yeah. Sure,
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  off field stuff, yeah, I mean, aside, we don't want
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  to even touch the off field stuff just because there's opinions and regardless, that's
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  not good stuff. But on the field, one of the greatest Vikings ever.
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  All right, we'll move on to my eighth pick. JJ was ten,
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  Harrison Smith was nine for me, So number eight and actually the next
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  one to the next three of mine are all prior to our lives. Vikings
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  pre pre ninety Vikings yep. And honestly, the eighties and the early nineties
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  were pretty bad for the Vikings. Yeah, those were some dark time.
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  I don't have anybody on my list from those years of Vikings football. I
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  don't believe I do either. But this guy, I believe still holds.
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  Let's see if you can guess this one. He still holds the career interception
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  record. I know exactly who it does. Yep. He was a free
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  safety from nineteen sixty eight to nineteen seventy nine, eighty one career interceptions fifty
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  three with the Vikings, eleven fumble recoveries, two touchdowns, eight time Pro
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  Bowl six with the Vikings, three time All Pro one with the Vikings.
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  And this would be, oh, this would be Paul Krause, Paul Krause
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  number twenty two, the original number twenty two. Yep. And if the
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  Vikings ever retire numbers again, which they haven't done for a while, even
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  though there's been a couple of a couple of worthy guys, I think correct
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  me if I'm wrong. The last retired number would have been Corey Stringer and
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  maybe Chris Carter, depending on the timing of when they did that. I
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  can look really quick. Yeah, and that's not a huge thing. But
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  when they retire the number twenty two, which they should, and it should
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  be a dual retirement for Harrison Smarson and Pras they're both worthy of it.
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  I think I think they would both welcome that idea of being dual honored for
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  that number, they definitely should do it. And yeah, Paul Crass Hawkeye.
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  You may not know that. I didn't know that he's a Hawkey.
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  She was drafted to the Washington at the time, the Washington Redskins, and
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  they traded for him after four years there, he had twenty eight interceptions in
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  four years, and they traded him. Can you imagine in today's NFL if
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  somebody unless he's like a horrible person, like just the worst person to ever
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  deal with, always getting in trouble, like that's the only time some but
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  nowadays we get traded like that. And to my knowledge, Paul Kraus was
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  not a horrible person. Was. He's still with us. Yeah, just
• 25:10
  seems like a good dude. I think he still hosts like away game watch
• 25:14
  parties at his house, like you can, anybody can. Just we should
• 25:18
  do that. Yeah, I think he charges like twenty five dollars to go
• 25:22
  and watch games in his garage, and like that makes it a big deal.
• 25:26
  Like if we don't do that and we never get a chance to do
• 25:30
  before he passes because he's getting up there too, I'm gonna be that's God,
• 25:33
  that's a missed opportunity. We're going to put that on our to do
• 25:36
  list and we're going to look into that because the twenty twenty four season.
• 25:40
  That sounds amazing. Yeah, hopefully we don't need another edit he is still
• 25:45
  with us and hopefully not, but yeah, did I have any other Is
• 25:49
  he on your list? He is? He is on my list. Pro
• 25:52
  Football Hall of Famer. I listed if they're a Hall of Famer, I
• 25:56
  listed the year they've got in. Krause went in in nineteen ninety eight.
• 26:00
  Heck of a year for the Vikings. Yeah, yep, Yeah, still
• 26:03
  holds the career interceptions number, which you gotta think with the way the game
• 26:08
  is changing, at some point that would get broken. But I don't know
• 26:12
  who's number two, Like, I don't know the highest, isn't it the
• 26:18
  active players? At least at the end of the twenty two to twenty three
• 26:22
  season. It ended with Harrison Smith and Patrick Peterson among all active players,
• 26:27
  and they had something like thirty five or thirty six. I think that's yeah.
• 26:32
  I think you're right because they were both Vikings at the end of the
• 26:34
  year and that was still the highest. They both were tied or right next
• 26:38
  to each other and the active So if those guys are at less than half
• 26:44
  of Krause's numbers, maybe that's one of those record breakable won't be beat.
• 26:48
  He gotta think it will. Though he didn't have a super long career either.
• 26:53
  He played from sixty eight to seventy nine or at least for the Vikings.
• 26:57
  He played from sixty four to seven, So he played those four years
• 27:02
  with the Redskins for Washington first. Okay, so fourteen years though or fifteen
• 27:06
  years? Yeah, and what's Harry at ten? And he feels like Harry's
• 27:10
  coming up to his limelight of his career too, So I mean fourteen years,
• 27:14
  that's quite a few seasons. Maybe fifteen seasons, I don't know.
• 27:17
  Yep, half of those, more than half of those he was a pro
• 27:21
  bowler with eight. Yeah, the Viking's traded a linebacker and a seventh round
• 27:25
  pick to get him, and I had never heard of the linebacker Marlon McKeever.
• 27:30
  Sorry if you're listening, but yeah, that guy right now, he'd
• 27:34
  get multiple first round picks for a guy coming off twenty eight interceptions, Like
• 27:38
  yeah, such a great Viking. Yeah, definitely, and number eight on
• 27:42
  my list. Yeah, and again, these next few are from the older
• 27:48
  generation. And they're not low on my list because I think less of them.
• 27:52
  They're lower on my list because I didn't get to watch them play.
• 27:56
  Yeah, I've only ever heard stories we're seeing like recaps or looked at stats
• 28:03
  and things like that. So we mentioned the retired numbers. We've got number
• 28:11
  ten. Great friend Tarkinson, you have Mick Tinglehoff fifty three. I think
• 28:17
  wasn't he the first ever draft pick for the Vikings. No, he he
• 28:22
  came in in nineteen sixty two. We may hear about more about Mick later
• 28:27
  on in the episode. Interesting Jim Marshall number seventy, Corey Stringer seventy seven,
• 28:33
  Chris Carter eighty which would have probably been the last number to be retired
• 28:38
  by the way he was, and then eighty eight Alan Page. Yeah,
• 28:42
  so keep those names in mind thereof Yeah. Oh well, I've got one.
• 28:48
  You ready for my number seven? You're up next because I revealed one
• 28:51
  of mine with paulk So my number seven was I believe the first quarterback for
• 28:57
  the Vikings. Wow, we just mentioned his number has now been retired.
• 29:02
  Yep. He was the quarterback from sixty one to sixty six and then played
• 29:07
  for the Giants for a handful of years and then came back and played again
• 29:11
  for the Vikings from seventy two to seventy eight. He has two thousand,
• 29:15
  six hundred and thirty five completions on four thousand, five hundred and sixty nine
• 29:21
  attempts for a fifty seven point seven completion percentage, thirty three thousand and ninety
• 29:26
  eight yards, two hundred thirty nine touchdowns, A nine time pro bowler,
• 29:30
  five with the Vikings, and he was All Pro in nineteen seventy five and
• 29:34
  fran Tarkenton was inducted into the Hall of Fame. I think it says nineteen
• 29:38
  eighty six, and I didn't take that into consideration when I was creating my
• 29:42
  list, So thanks for adding that. Yeah, so, yeah, he
• 29:48
  did not start the first game for the Vikings. It's kind of famous Vikings
• 29:52
  Lord that he came off the bench, and I think, I think I'm
• 29:56
  going to get the numbers wrong. He threw for three touchdowns and ran for
• 30:02
  one more, or he threw for four touchdowns and ran for one more in
• 30:04
  that first game. It's either three or four passing touchdowns. Electric. Yeah,
• 30:11
  I don't remember. He was drafted what twenty ninth overall, which in
• 30:15
  nineteen sixty one, if you were the twenty ninth overall pick, you were
• 30:18
  drafted in the third round. Really wow, A little bit different different times,
• 30:23
  so he was not a first round pick, but yeah, probably the
• 30:29
  first best Viking. He is on my list if I hadn't said that already,
• 30:36
  he changed the game. There were no mobile quarterbacks before he started running
• 30:40
  around like he changed the idea of a quarterback running around, extending the play,
• 30:45
  gaining time. And he was he was Michael Vick before Michael Vick.
• 30:49
  Yeah. When he retired, he had the most passing touchdowns of all time
• 30:55
  with what three and forty two. I think also, in far of like
• 30:59
  fashion, he retired with the most interceptions of all time with two hundred and
• 31:03
  sixty six, And those numbers are for his whole career between the Vikings and
• 31:07
  the Giants. I think there was only one of the four Vikings Super Bowls
• 31:12
  that he did not start in because at the time he was a giant.
• 31:18
  Yeah, just elite player, probably the first best Viking agreed, Yeah,
• 31:26
  and still is very much involved with the organization, I think seems to be.
• 31:30
  I think there were some dark ages for him for whatever reason. I
• 31:33
  don't know, if he just wasn't invited to a lot of stuff, or
• 31:37
  if he just kind of wanted that to be put in the past, or
• 31:41
  I don't know, but maybe there's some bad blood somewhere between the organization and
• 31:45
  him. That's a complete guess. But the last handful of years he seems
• 31:48
  to have been more involved with the team, more around the team, which
• 31:52
  is nice. You want that to happen because he too is getting up there
• 31:56
  and someday we will say, like, he's not with us anymore. So
• 32:00
  it's it's nice to still have him around. Should we move on? Yeah,
• 32:06
  number six, Yeah, we'll keep with you because I've we've been in
• 32:08
  step for the last couple So I went a little bit off script for number
• 32:13
  six, and instead of picking one, I picked a handful. Oh okay,
• 32:19
  I think, yeah, I know who you're picking. Yeah, this
• 32:22
  will this will make sense. And it was tough because this group of individuals
• 32:30
  changed a little bit over its history. So I went with the core of
• 32:36
  the group, the group that was in existence for the longest stretch of time.
• 32:39
  So there's only three of them, although historically there were four, but
• 32:45
  that fourth player was always kind of interchangeable. He's like the drummer of the
• 32:50
  band, and you just never know which one that's going to be this time,
• 32:52
  sir, right, right, So this would be my number six.
• 32:55
  The Purple people eaters, good good pick and I lumped them all together,
• 33:00
  not because they don't deserve to be individually recognized, but I also wanted to
• 33:06
  save some room on the list for some other players. Yeah, you cheated
• 33:08
  on your list, that's okay, there were no rules. I respect this,
• 33:14
  respect this a lot. We got to make the rules because it's our
• 33:16
  list and we get to do what we want with it. So Alan Page,
• 33:22
  Carl Eller, Jim Marshall, two of which have retired numbers that we
• 33:25
  just mentioned. Page and Marshall have their numbers retired. But just some quick
• 33:31
  hitting stats. This is the most interesting. Alan Page one hundred and eight
• 33:37
  point five sacks, Carl Eller one hundred and thirty point five sacks, Jim
• 33:43
  Marshall one hundred and twenty eight sacks cumulatively, like nearly three hundred sacks.
• 33:50
  Over three hundred, I can't do man, Yeah, they all had more
• 33:53
  than one hundred, right, Yeah, it's crazy. And actually this surprised
• 34:00
  me a little bit when I looked it up. But Alan Page and Carl
• 34:04
  Eller are a little more decorated in terms of pro bowls all pro I thought
• 34:12
  Jim Marshall would have been a little bit more decorated that way, so to
• 34:15
  speak. But Alan Page, nine time pro bowler, five time All Pro
• 34:20
  and he was Defensive Rookie of the Year his rookie year in sixty seven,
• 34:24
  and he was League MVP in nineteen seventy one. Yeah, one of two
• 34:29
  defensive players to ever get the NFL MVP award, the other being Lawrence Taylor
• 34:32
  for the Giants. YEP, Carl Eller six time Pro Bowl, five time
• 34:37
  All Pro. He was Rookie of the Year in nineteen sixty four and Defensive
• 34:43
  Player of the Year in seventy one. That seventy one defense was yeah.
• 34:47
  So, and both Page and Eller got a Defensive Player of the Year award
• 34:54
  in seventy one. It's just I think one was from the AP the other
• 34:58
  one was from like another another source of media for Anya or something like that.
• 35:05
  So depending on what you look at as the award, only one of
• 35:08
  them has it, but they were bold honored that year. And then Jim
• 35:13
  Marshall was a two time Pro bowler. I was surprised that he didn't have
• 35:15
  any other accolades to add to his list. I don't know, maybe you
• 35:20
  dug up some other stuff on him. I don't know if he's on your
• 35:22
  list at all. Well, I think yeah, so, all three of
• 35:24
  them are on my list as individuals. Really, Yeah, so obviously it's
• 35:29
  not a bad selection. So Jim Marshall he was He was started off as
• 35:35
  a Brown, Cleveland Brown that he was traded to the Vikings for two picks.
• 35:40
  I couldn't find which selections they were. I think Marshall is also I
• 35:46
  might be wrong. I think he also played for the Canadian Football League for
• 35:51
  a year. That's all right. He started two hundred and seventy consecutive games,
• 35:57
  which is number two right now to Brett Favre, which is interesting because
• 36:01
  both of them were Vikings when they set their records. Two time pro bowler.
• 36:07
  I say he's tragically not in the Hall of Fame. He keeps kind
• 36:12
  of getting close. He's every every handful of years he's one of the finalists,
• 36:16
  but never gets to be like the last list of selections in the Hall
• 36:21
  of Fame. One one day he'll get in. I think the team has
• 36:23
  been trying to make a push for him to get in every every handful of
• 36:28
  years. They saw just the other day, Yeah, like get Jim Marshall
• 36:30
  in. Yeah, I agree for sure. Jim Marshall is the namesake for
• 36:35
  Marshall on How I Met your mother. So if you see that, if
• 36:40
  you watch that show and you ever see Marshall in a Vikings jersey because he's
• 36:44
  a Vikings fan. For he's he's wearing Jim Marshall's number seventy, which is
• 36:49
  retired. Alan Page was Alan Page that so, yeah, Jim Marshall should
• 36:54
  be in the Hall of Fame. He played, yeah, two hundred and
• 36:58
  seventy consecutive games. Yeah, he doesn't have the Pro Bowls, he's not
• 37:01
  an MVP, but he should be in the Hall of Fame. Absolutely should
• 37:06
  be in the Hall of Fame. Alan Page, Minnesota Supreme Court Justice.
• 37:13
  Yeah, all right, he did that for what thirteen years. He only
• 37:17
  stopped because they have an age limit at seventy years old, so he had
• 37:22
  to retire at that limit. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in twenty
• 37:28
  six, twenty eighteen. Yeah, another retired number. He is a Hall
• 37:34
  of Famer. He went in in nineteen eighty eight, which is crazy.
• 37:37
  He went in two to three years before either of us were born. We're
• 37:40
  born, Yeah, that is crazy. Yeah, just being an NFL MVP,
• 37:45
  like sure, that award probably didn't mean as as much as it does
• 37:49
  today when he earned it in what nineteen seventy one, but he's still not
• 37:54
  a quarterback, not an offensive player at all, and he earned the MVP
• 37:59
  Award Like that's that's crazy, that's awesome. And then who was the other
• 38:04
  one? Carl Eler? Yeah, drafted in the first round in nineteen sixty
• 38:08
  four, one hundred and thirty three and a half sacks. Those stats can
• 38:13
  be a little weird because sacks didn't become an official stat until well after all
• 38:17
  of their careers. Six time Pro bowler and he Carl Eller, got in
• 38:22
  the Hall of Fame in O four. Just yea, the Purple People eaters
• 38:29
  are I'm not mad at your pick. They are one of the greatest vikings
• 38:32
  of all time as a group and individually too. So yeah, yep,
• 38:37
  yeah, I did cheat maybe a little bit, or at least bent to
• 38:40
  the rules a little bit. No, I think you're good, But yeah,
• 38:44
  I there were other players that I wanted to talk about again because it's
• 38:47
  my list, and I got to pick who I wanted to pick. So
• 38:52
  yet too, Yeah? Yeah, So have you listed off five already?
• 38:58
  I mean, if we include the Purple People as three, two, three,
• 39:02
  four, where am I at five? Six, seven? Oh?
• 39:09
  I got some catching up to do then, yeah, all right, so
• 39:13
  go for it. Okay, Well we'll jump to my number five. Let's
• 39:17
  see if you can guess this one. He's been referenced already in this conversation,
• 39:23
  but let's see if there are any Well, there's not a lot that
• 39:30
  I can say that won't give it away, but I'll try to off.
• 39:34
  Did he play for the Patriots? No? Oh, okay. He spent
• 39:37
  his whole career as a Viking, seven seasons. He has six receiving touchdowns
• 39:44
  thirty two touchdowns. He's a two time Pro bowler in ninety eight and two
• 39:49
  thousand. He played from ninety three to two thousand. Hmmm, if I
• 39:55
  give anything else away, you'll guess it right away. You gave her exception
• 40:02
  yards and touchdowns, or maybe not yards, but you gave some receiving totals.
• 40:08
  But have we talked about his jersey? We are we sitting in the
• 40:14
  presence of his signature right now? We sure are? You're talking about Robert
• 40:16
  Smith. Yeah, maybe maybe arguably the second best running running Viking's history,
• 40:24
  which is why I have him at five and Adrian Peterson at three. So
• 40:30
  yeah, Robert Smith running back from ninety three to two thousand, six eight
• 40:35
  and eighteen rushing yards, which is a little more than half of what Adrian
• 40:38
  Peterson had as a Viking. As a Viking, but I think one the
• 40:46
  Vikings haven't had a another running back like him that's been as productive as him.
• 40:52
  Since I think yours is over there, I missed I moved it there.
• 40:57
  It is Also I think he was just consistent. I don't know his
• 41:02
  injury history, but I grew up watching him. And the reason I have
• 41:07
  this signature is because a distant family member of mine lived down the street from
• 41:14
  him and literally just walked down the street, knocked on his door, and
• 41:16
  he signed the jersey. And this was my Christmas present when I was like
• 41:20
  twelve years old or something like that. That Christmas present. It was awesome
• 41:25
  and I've only ever appreciated it more and more the older I've gotten. But
• 41:30
  yeah, I think we're both right to say he is the second best.
• 41:34
  There have been some good running backs. Dalvin Cook was up there and could
• 41:38
  potentially find his way into that conversation at the end of his career. Yeah,
• 41:44
  I think longevity keeps Stalvin out of the conversation. But yeah, I
• 41:49
  think Robert Smith is that number two guy. And he walked away I think
• 41:54
  at the height of his career, and he had many more good years in
• 41:59
  him, and I think he just he took the high road and said selfishly,
• 42:04
  I could keep playing, but I don't need to. Yeah, and
• 42:07
  he walked away without any sort of fanfare or controversy or anything like that.
• 42:15
  It was just Nope, this is my time. I'm done. And I
• 42:19
  respect that a lot. I think there's a lot to be said about just
• 42:22
  his character and who he is. I'm sure the information's out there, but
• 42:25
  I wish I knew more about his like decision making in that retiring process.
• 42:31
  I don't think it was like, oh, he blew his knee out and
• 42:35
  that was it. I think, like you said, it was on his
• 42:37
  terms and he chose to end his career. I don't know of any bad
• 42:42
  blood or any like. He definitely could have had opportunities even if for some
• 42:46
  reason the Vikings weren't opening the door for him, which I can't imagine they
• 42:50
  wouldn't have. If you think he played in the same time as Barry Sanders,
• 42:54
  and if not for Barry Sanders, we'd be talking a lot. The
• 42:59
  NFL world would be talking a lot more about Robert Smith as a running back.
• 43:02
  It's just I mean, that's Barry Sanders, that it was in his
• 43:06
  same division, Like who another guy that walked away on his terms. Barry
• 43:10
  Sanders retired a little bit early as well. But yeah, so you think
• 43:15
  of being one of the greatest and only playing seven years, that's a short
• 43:20
  career. But I can't argue with that. He's not on my list,
• 43:24
  but maybe he would have been if I would have grouped a bunch of people
• 43:28
  together. Is that now you're just throwing darks? Is that the only player
• 43:36
  that we've had so far that is on my list that isn't on yours?
• 43:42
  I don't remember. I think so? Maybe I think so. Well,
• 43:46
  No, JJ was the other one. JJ and Robert Smith got it.
• 43:52
  Well, there you go. Robert Smith. I think he's just in my
• 43:54
  lifetime in by virtue of the fact that I have a signed of his.
• 44:01
  He's he's in my top five. He is number five. And it's kind
• 44:05
  of funny too that. I mean, he's a successful announcer of college football
• 44:08
  on TV. He's been on you know, analyst shows for mostly college football.
• 44:15
  It's kind of funny that there are probably a lot of people out there
• 44:19
  that know of him and like when he talks, that have no clue that
• 44:22
  he was actually like a very successful, one of the best Vikings running backs
• 44:28
  of all time and played on arguably one of the best Vikings teams he had
• 44:32
  ninety eight. Yeah, ninety three to two thousand, he was on a
• 44:36
  squad and he was a pro bowler that year. In interesting and interesting fact,
• 44:43
  aside from ap all of my other top five players were on the team.
• 44:49
  And oh yeah, nope, I take that back. Three of my
• 44:52
  top five we're on the roster in ninety eight. Okay, three of my
• 44:58
  time. Now I'm gonna be thinking about is Jared Allen on your list or
• 45:00
  not? I don't know, but we don't have to spoil that yet.
• 45:05
  But yeah, I think you still need to catch up to me as far
• 45:08
  as revealing players, because I've got the Purple Pupil leaders separated. So so
• 45:14
  you've had you've made seven. Seven of mine are revealed, and I've made
• 45:19
  six. So my number four on my list would be he was drafted in
• 45:28
  ninety nine. We'll just keep going with the guessing thing here. Drafted in
• 45:31
  ninety nine. I don't think he started until two thousand. He may have
• 45:37
  played one game in ninety nine, okay, but I think he took over
• 45:42
  as a starter in two thousand. He has one hundred and forty nine touchdowns
• 45:46
  offensive player, three time Pro bowler in two thousand three and four. I'm
• 45:52
  not going to give away anything else for fear of spoiling it. Do you
• 45:57
  have his sign jersey as well? I don't. I do, Yes,
• 46:01
  I do. I almost said no, but then I was like, wait
• 46:05
  a minute, yes I do. This is Dante Culpepper. This is the
• 46:07
  best version of Dante Culpepper. Yep, the best version. But yeah,
• 46:13
  because after his Vikings career, he really didn't he Yeah, he kind of
• 46:15
  tanked. Yeah, which I don't know why for somebody to be so elite
• 46:20
  was was he officially like co MVP one year or was it just a really
• 46:24
  tight I don't have that on my list. I didn't. It didn't stand
• 46:29
  out to me on the sources I was looking at. There's something there.
• 46:32
  Maybe that was a year that he could have I don't remember. Anyways,
• 46:37
  he was electric and all he had to do was throw bombs to Randy Moss
• 46:43
  all the time and it worked. Yep. Sixty three percent completion rate.
• 46:47
  He has two thousand and sixteen completions on three thy one and ninety nine attempts
• 46:55
  twenty four one hundred and fifty three yards. Man, what could have been
• 47:02
  in one hundred and forty nine touchdowns, three time Pro bowler, and all
• 47:07
  of it came crashing down. I think when the Vikings were playing the Bengals
• 47:12
  and he tore his ACL, and that was right before acls stopped being career
• 47:19
  altering injuries. Now, it's never good to tear your ACL, but it's
• 47:22
  almost like a six, seven, eight, nine month recovery and then for
• 47:28
  the most part, you're back. Back then, even in the early two
• 47:32
  thousands, two thousand and four, I think is when it had happened for
• 47:35
  him. Yep, it was, I mean pretty much the stamp on your
• 47:40
  career. You were basically done, which he did come back and play.
• 47:45
  The Vikings traded him away to the Dolphins I think for a second round pick,
• 47:49
  and that's when the Dolphins were deciding between Dante or Drew Brees and famously
• 47:54
  made the wrong decision. They should have signed Drew Brees, but Breeze,
• 47:59
  even though was coming off a shoulder injury, and it was if he was
• 48:02
  gonna be the same guy after being a Charger for a while. This is
• 48:07
  a Drew Brees podcast. Now, no, it's not all. I respect
• 48:10
  the guy, yeah, yeah, but yeah, back to Dante. He
• 48:13
  played for the Dolphins and then the Raiders, and then he bounced around a
• 48:19
  little bit. He was a Sacramento Lion for a minute in like whatever UFL
• 48:24
  or whatever league that was. He played on the Owen sixteen Lions for a
• 48:30
  minute. I think famously he got signed on like a Thursday and then started
• 48:36
  that Sunday or something. I don't know, he bounced around. If he
• 48:39
  never tore that acl, who knows what could have happened. That was also
• 48:45
  Brad Childress came in and traded him away before Childress ever coached a game.
• 48:52
  Yeah, good pick. Everything I just said was terrible things about him,
• 48:55
  but it wasn't. I mean, he was a Viking man that was so
• 48:59
  much fun and that's why I think he's in my top five. And like
• 49:01
  for me, his active years as a Viking were some of the best years
• 49:07
  to watch. I mean, we turned I turned ten in two thousand and
• 49:13
  I turned fifteen and five when his Vikings career in formative years. So yeah,
• 49:17
  from ages ten to fifteen, Dante Culpeper was our quarterback and it was
• 49:22
  fun to watch Vikings football. Yeah, I think you indoctrinated me into the
• 49:27
  Vikings fanhood in like oh one, yep. And my favorite players I could
• 49:30
  name all three of them, Dante, Randy, and Chris Hovan. Those
• 49:36
  were my guys. Those were my favorite players. I remember going to my
• 49:38
  first Vikings game in like I don't know two, three or four. They
• 49:44
  were playing the Bears, and I remember we were in the nosebleeds. I
• 49:47
  had binoculars and I saw Chris Hovan run on the field. I was like,
• 49:50
  oh, that's Chris Hovin, Like, oh my gosh. But like
• 49:53
  I think Randy caught a touchdown that game. It was so fun that those
• 49:58
  were our formative years as Vikings fans. Absolutely, and Dante was the Pro
• 50:04
  Bowl quarterback. He was Cam Newton before Cam Newton came in, just a
• 50:07
  big dude. He was. Yeah, he was a different quarterback. He
• 50:10
  was bigger, but he was mobile, he was fast, he could move,
• 50:15
  he had pocket presence, but he also could get out of things and
• 50:19
  run it himself. I mean he was He was a fun player. To
• 50:22
  watch. He could be electric at times, and I think one of the
• 50:24
  first one hundred million dollar contracts to be signed. I think at one point
• 50:30
  a year or two before he got traded away, he signed something like a
• 50:34
  ten year, one hundred million dollar contract and that was such a crazy thing
• 50:38
  at that point. I'm guessing he's not on your list, He's not on
• 50:42
  my list, but he was my first favorite quarterback as a Vikings fan.
• 50:46
  That's fair. Well, my number three pick has already been revealed, and
• 50:52
  we've spent quite a bit of time talking about Adrian Peterson AP or ad depending
• 50:58
  on. Yeah, so is it my chair? No? So, yeah,
• 51:00
  it is your turn, and then I've got one pick before we get
• 51:02
  to our honorable mentions. Yeah, okay, So we've talked fran Tarkenton,
• 51:09
  We've talked Jim Marshall, and Adrian. We're gonna throw it way back,
• 51:15
  way back to a relatively recent Hall of Famer. This guy was inducted into
• 51:21
  the Hall of Fame in twenty fifteen. He started two hundred and forty consecutive
• 51:24
  games, which at the time he retired was the second longest streak, and
• 51:30
  even now it's like the third or fourth longest streak and there are Vikings at
• 51:36
  the top of that list of longest streaks. Six time pro bowler. He
• 51:40
  was undrafted, evan something I didn't know until today. He is hands down
• 51:46
  the greatest undrafted Viking of all time, without question, and has that even
• 51:55
  has he been mentioned already? Have we talked about him? I believe his
• 51:59
  name has been said today in the retired number section. In the retired number
• 52:01
  section. Okay, so who do you think it is? Mctinglehoff, the
• 52:07
  late great mctinglehoff. I think he passed away in the last couple of years,
• 52:09
  twenty one, I believe. But yeah, I did not know until
• 52:14
  today that he was undrafted, which is just crazy. Like i'd be twelve
• 52:20
  hours ago if you would ask me who the best undrafted Viking of all time
• 52:22
  was. I mean, I think it'd be pretty hard not to say Adam
• 52:27
  Thielen. Maybe there's some other guys on that list, but yeah, there's
• 52:31
  no question now. Mctinglehoff. He played, he was undrafted, played for
• 52:36
  the Vikings, and I believe no one else from nineteen sixty two until nineteen
• 52:43
  seventy eight. So we've mentioned some names that were in that group for almost
• 52:47
  twenty years. I mean Jim the whole Purple people Eaters for the most part
• 52:53
  early to mid sixties to the late seventies, mctingle hoff, Fran Tarkenton,
• 53:00
  he had those giants years, but for the most part he was in that
• 53:04
  core group of elite Vikings per crowd the better part. Paul Kraus for the
• 53:07
  better part of fifteen to twenty years, which is crazy. And coincidentally they're
• 53:14
  all on our lists and unfortunately we never had a chance to watch any of
• 53:20
  them play. Yeah, and you could argue like that they wouldn't do anything
• 53:23
  in this era of football, but during their era they were elite. Like
• 53:28
  the Vikings were a perennial contender every year. It's just they never punched their
• 53:34
  ticket. That's I mean you talk about eras. I mean, that's the
• 53:37
  whole debate with Jordan and Lebron, you know, to take it out of
• 53:42
  football from in it, like, well, Lebron is just playing in a
• 53:45
  different NBA than Michael Jordan played, and people go back and forth on that
• 53:49
  all the time. I agree with you. I definitely think those guys were
• 53:52
  some of the greatest players in the league in their time, and that's why
• 53:58
  most of them are on this list and in the Hall of Fame. I
• 54:00
  think of those guys, there's only one not in the Hall of Fame,
• 54:04
  Jim Marshall, who should be. I think it's just the Pro Bowl numbers
• 54:07
  for Jim Marshall, Like if he had even four Pro Bowls, he'd be
• 54:10
  in the Hall. But we're not talking about him right now. The Vikings
• 54:15
  don't retire numbers anymore. I wonder if they were to erase everything right now
• 54:20
  and figure out numbers to retire, if he would be retired still at fifty
• 54:24
  three. But I think he should be, And I like that seems like
• 54:30
  a good honor. Yeah. I don't know anything about yeah, yeah,
• 54:34
  But I'm saying if they were to wipe that away and redecide right now,
• 54:37
  I don't know anything about the dude off the field, if he was a
• 54:42
  good dude or a terrible dude or whatever. I know, fran Tarkinson loved
• 54:45
  him dearly. I think even in twenty fifteen when he was inducted into the
• 54:50
  Hall, Mick his mind was starting to go a little bit. He was
• 54:57
  not one hundred percent there. He's getting up there and getting, you know,
• 55:01
  trying in the later stages of life already. And I think fran Targanton
• 55:06
  was his his introducer to the Hall of Fame or whatever that that term is.
• 55:10
  He like made the speech for him. But yeah, just a great
• 55:14
  Viking. Crazy that he was undrafted. I didn't know he was undrafted.
• 55:17
  Yeah, I think I had mistakenly said earlier that he was the first draft
• 55:22
  pick ever. Yeah, when you said that, I was like, I
• 55:27
  don't know who that was, but I feel like that's something I knew at
• 55:30
  one point, but I want to say it was a running back anyways.
• 55:34
  Yeah, Mick Tingloff, he's my He's on my list. There you go,
• 55:38
  all right, should we get to my number two and then you've got
• 55:43
  a pick and then we'll do honorable mentions? Yeah, all right, so
• 55:46
  my number two pick probably had I'm gonna just glance down my list here one
• 55:54
  of the shortest careers of players on my list for the Vikings. He played
• 56:02
  for a handful of other teams. And again, this is a personal pick.
• 56:07
  This isn't a like statistically hands down one of the best players ever,
• 56:14
  but played in that prime era of my childhood growing up. You'll guess him
• 56:22
  right away. Nine three and sixteen yards, six time Pro bowler, four
• 56:27
  time All Pro, ninety two touchdowns. He was a rookie at nineteen ninety
• 56:32
  eight, twenty first overall pick in ninety eight. Dropped in the draft.
• 56:37
  Actually he did mostly for off the field stuff, yep. But Denny Green
• 56:42
  he saw some promise in this kid from rand West, Virginia. Yeah,
• 56:45
  and to this day, I think you could still get some emotion out of
• 56:49
  Randy Moss if you bring up Denny Green's name. Yes, there's a few
• 56:52
  famous like interviews Randy's done, and one for sure where somebody asked him straight
• 56:58
  up like what students do you give to Denny Green bringing you here? And
• 57:01
  how do you feel about that? And Randy breaks down just like, Yeah,
• 57:05
  that guy gave me a chance when nobody else did. I love that
• 57:07
  man. So Randy Moss, Randy Moss. We didn't say it officially,
• 57:12
  number two on my list. Drafted to ninety eight, played for the Vikings
• 57:15
  until four five hundred and eighty seven, catches, ninety two touchdowns, almost
• 57:21
  ten thousand yards. One more season he would have easily had ten thousand.
• 57:24
  Well, he had one more month with the Vikings in twenty ten, which
• 57:30
  one month Yeah, that really soured me on him at the time in twenty
• 57:35
  ten. At the end of twenty ten, I was not a fan of
• 57:38
  Randy Moss. I didn't like him at all. I've come around now.
• 57:42
  I think that was just a really rough time for everybody, and he's not
• 57:45
  everybody's favorite person, and he definitely has a checkered past, and his childhood
• 57:52
  in West Virginia was rough, to say the least. But I think you
• 57:57
  look at where he's gone professionally, even after football. I mean, we
• 58:00
  watch him every week on ESPN's Monday Night Countdown, and I mean he's just
• 58:05
  kind of the picture of making something of yourself from nothing. Earlier, I
• 58:10
  said Dante was my first favorite quarterback, and Chris Hovan was in my list
• 58:15
  of favorite Vikings. Randy Moss was my first favorite player. He's still on
• 58:22
  that list. He's on my list, he's on your list, he is
• 58:23
  on my list today. I think he has to be on an all time
• 58:28
  Vikings list. I don't think you can have a respectable all time list without
• 58:30
  Randy Moss. I agree. Even with those three or four weeks in twenty
• 58:35
  ten where stuff was going on, he said some stuff and everybody else said
• 58:40
  some stuff. But outside of that, I mean, it's a shame that
• 58:45
  they traded him away. I think it was mostly contract reasons. If I
• 58:50
  remember right, there was a game where he walked out of the towards the
• 58:53
  locker room with a few seconds left in the game. Towards the end of
• 58:57
  that two thousand and four season, I don't remembers one of the greatest vikings
• 59:00
  of all time, highlight reel. We can just I'm watching plays in my
• 59:06
  head right now, the the Randy Moss flipped to Moe Williams that was famously
• 59:12
  turned into a Burger King commercial. Theatrix of Randy Moss would win him an
• 59:15
  Academy Award. I'm thinking back. There was a really cool game against the
• 59:22
  Saints in New Orleans where he had just a toe tipping catch for a touchdown
• 59:28
  on the back corner of the end zone. That was crazy. We could
• 59:31
  You can't. You can't talk about crazy moments or games without the Thanksgiving game
• 59:37
  his three one sixty three and three. Yea, yep. Crazy. You
• 59:40
  can't even do that in Madden like crazy. It's insane. And to think
• 59:45
  that we have a guy right now that is doing things that haven't been done
• 59:51
  since Randy Moss. In JJ, he's breaking Moss records like soon enough.
• 59:57
  I don't know if the term getting mossed will ever changed from being getting lost,
• 1:00:01
  but JJ is going to have his own term. Do the gritty on
• 1:00:06
  him. I don't know that sounded gross. I don't know, but JJ
• 1:00:10
  is on that trajectory. He is in line, and you've got both on
• 1:00:15
  your list. He's online well deserved. One of the best Vikings of all
• 1:00:20
  time. I mean, you hear all the time. Dustin Baker, in
• 1:00:23
  his interview with US said, Rainy Moss solidified me being a Vikings fan.
• 1:00:28
  Like, my goodness, that guy was crazy. He was fun to watch,
• 1:00:31
  and he was controversial, and he had off the field stuff, and
• 1:00:36
  yeah, all of that kind of sits in the backdrop of what was an
• 1:00:44
  incredible career. An incredible career. Straight cash, homie. How are you
• 1:00:50
  gonna pay for that? Fine? Just straight cash, homie. I love
• 1:00:52
  that. I think didn't he run someone over at one point? I don't
• 1:00:58
  know. I try not to pay too much attention to those things. Yeah,
• 1:01:01
  focus on what happens on the field. Yeah, definitely the greatest Viking
• 1:01:06
  that ever played his college ball at Marshall. Oh. There was a lot
• 1:01:12
  of controversy there too, because I think he could have gone to Florida State.
• 1:01:15
  He probably could have gone anywhere. I think the big ones were Florida
• 1:01:20
  State and Notre Dame Notre Dame in whatever order. I don't remember, because
• 1:01:24
  he could have played for Bobby Bowden or Lou Holtz, and both of them
• 1:01:28
  wanted him really badly. But then he was just kind of an idiot,
• 1:01:30
  made some bad choices and we got some magical years. Though he played,
• 1:01:36
  he never did he ever win a Super Bowl. He was on the undefeated
• 1:01:39
  Patriots team, but I don't think Yeah, I don't think he ever won
• 1:01:44
  the Super Bowl. I don't know. And then he played on the Niners
• 1:01:47
  team that went to the Super Bowl and lost to the Ravens. Harbabble.
• 1:01:52
  Yeah when the Ravens had when the lights work and Brian McKinney and when the
• 1:01:59
  lights went out and the wind lights went out. So I don't know if
• 1:02:00
  Randy ever got a Super Bowl, which is tragic. He's one of the
• 1:02:04
  best of all time and to never get to them A ring. All right,
• 1:02:09
  Well, let's get to some honorable mentions. Here is your like final
• 1:02:15
  pick really good. It's one that hasn't been said yet. It's not like
• 1:02:20
  a firework worthy pick, but I'll go to bat for it till the couch.
• 1:02:24
  I think I have a few ideas. Has it been has this player
• 1:02:28
  been mentioned? I don't think he has really Yeah. Interesting. Oh that
• 1:02:32
  makes things interesting, especially as we're now get an hour in ways away into
• 1:02:38
  this episode. Well, honorable mentions. Maybe we don't have to go too
• 1:02:42
  deep into the weeds for these guys, but we just want to go bang
• 1:02:45
  bang bang. You mean yeah, so I'll start. I know you have
• 1:02:49
  three which will make you you'll have to double up maybe at the end,
• 1:02:52
  but that's okay. I want to double back on because we just finished talking
• 1:02:57
  about Randy Moss as my second pick. So my first honorable mention is Corey
• 1:03:02
  Stringer. And in my display case here, I actually have a newspaper article
• 1:03:08
  from the Star Tribune in Minneapolis, and I believe it was August second,
• 1:03:15
  two thousand and one, which would have been in the day after he died.
• 1:03:20
  He died tragically from symptoms of a heat stroke at training camp in Minnesota
• 1:03:27
  in two thousand and one. And there's a picture of Randy Moss actually crying
• 1:03:31
  at the memorial service for Corey Stringer, so I had to include him in.
• 1:03:39
  He played in a time when offensive line statistics weren't great. They weren't
• 1:03:47
  nearly as advanced as they are today, so there's not a lot of stats
• 1:03:51
  to throw out there for him. But he was a pro bowler the season
• 1:03:53
  before he passed away in two thousand and I mean, any time somebody is,
• 1:04:02
  you know, putting their life out there and loses their life, I
• 1:04:08
  think that deserves mentioning. And again, that was kind of a formidable time
• 1:04:12
  in my life. You know, I was ten years old, I think,
• 1:04:15
  or eleven maybe No, I would have been ten in August of two
• 1:04:18
  thousand and one. So that was a poignant moment in my Vikings fanhood.
• 1:04:24
  And when I learned about that through my parents, that was kind of a
• 1:04:27
  heavy hitting thing. Yeah. So and that was right before I really started
• 1:04:31
  being a Vikings fan. So yeah, I mean maybe that season was when
• 1:04:35
  I started looking at the Vikings as being a diehard fan. Yeah. And
• 1:04:41
  it's unfortunate, but I think a positive, a silver lining around his passing
• 1:04:45
  is that it really forced the change of a lot of practices in the way
• 1:04:51
  that teams treated their players, or the technology that was available, or the
• 1:05:00
  the opportunities players had to get a break or get a water break. And
• 1:05:02
  it's not even in the NFL, but it's in all sports at all levels.
• 1:05:09
  I'm a high school coach and the Corey Stringer Institute is something that's referenced
• 1:05:14
  in all of the professional development and training that I have to do yearly in
• 1:05:18
  terms of heat stroke and things like that. And I think they might even
• 1:05:24
  like sponsor a lot of that, So that's good. So it's had a
• 1:05:27
  far reaching effect. Yeah, you'd like to think he would be happy with
• 1:05:30
  all of that. Obviously, he would much rather have Corey Stringer and all
• 1:05:36
  of those safety measures without somebody passing. But at least there is that silver
• 1:05:41
  lining of waking up and having to know exactly what to do to keep people
• 1:05:45
  safe. Ye all right, who do you got one of my honorable mentions?
• 1:05:55
  You love him? You hate him? He played for the Chiefs,
• 1:05:58
  the Vikings, the Bears, the Panthers, and I think maybe one other
• 1:06:03
  team. He only ever played in one Super Bowl. It was when the
• 1:06:06
  Panthers lost to I believe the Broncos. He had the most beautiful mullet of
• 1:06:13
  all time, and he really was a problem off the field when he was
• 1:06:19
  in Kansas City until the Chiefs traded Jared Allen to the Vikings for I think
• 1:06:26
  a couple of first round picks. As a Viking, I don't know that
• 1:06:30
  he ever really had any off the field issues. He had some some of
• 1:06:33
  his own personal personal issues, and I think being traded really woke him up
• 1:06:38
  to he was a great Viking and I had him on my list, but
• 1:06:45
  then and doing research, I'd found other guys and had to take him off
• 1:06:49
  just mostly if I would have had the Purple People leaders like all wrapped into
• 1:06:54
  one, Jared Allen absolutely would have been on my list. Yeah, he's
• 1:06:59
  if this list was eleven, Jared Allen's on it. We got to watch
• 1:07:02
  him be inducted into the Ring of Honor. We have here, or at
• 1:07:06
  least I have. We have the mullet. The mullet got mine right behind
• 1:07:11
  this chain, the fake mullet they handed out to every play or every fan
• 1:07:15
  at the stadium. Yeah, he was so fun, so fun, and
• 1:07:19
  he had I think half a sack away from breaking the sack record. Man,
• 1:07:27
  he deserves a He's one of those that you feel bad that he never
• 1:07:30
  got a Super Bowl. He deserves to have won a Super Bowl at some
• 1:07:32
  point, but it's never happened. And this guy even played for the Bears.
• 1:07:36
  I think one of the purple people. I think Carl Eller played for
• 1:07:40
  the Bears as well. It might be wrong on that HIMORRH Jim Marshall.
• 1:07:45
  Either way, Jared Allen should be on the list. He's an honorable mention
• 1:07:50
  and I'm okay with that. There you go, all right? Should I
• 1:07:56
  double up? Now, it's up to you. Another guy on the defense
• 1:08:00
  line at the same time Jared Allen was playing, he was a part of
• 1:08:02
  a wall. He was half, maybe a little more than half of a
• 1:08:05
  wall. He actually had a couple interceptions as a Viking, definitely a lot
• 1:08:11
  of sacks. He was a guy that everybody in the locker room loves.
• 1:08:15
  Played for the Seahawks for a minute, which we'll forgive him for. I
• 1:08:18
  think he even played for the Saints for a minute, which we can forgive
• 1:08:21
  him for as well. Half the Williams Wall, Kevin Williams ninety three himself,
• 1:08:27
  I think Big Ticket is his nickname, famously became a Viking. He
• 1:08:33
  was technically the seventh overall pick, but really wasn't picked until after the eighth
• 1:08:38
  pick was taken because the Vikings were late in getting their their card in.
• 1:08:45
  But yeah, Kevin Williams, He's one of my honorable mentions. Those william
• 1:08:49
  Viking, those Williams brothers were fun to watch. Yeah, that defensive line
• 1:08:54
  in that era was really fun to watch. Was Brian Robinson on that line
• 1:08:57
  too? I think he was like in the tail end because it was him.
• 1:09:00
  He was kind of that third Purple or fourth Purple people leader kind of
• 1:09:04
  guy. Robinson very good. But it started off with Alan Williams Williams and
• 1:09:11
  then Ray Edwards and then Edwards went off to I think Atlanta, and then
• 1:09:15
  Brian Robinson started. But yeah, that Williams wall was fun. Pat Williams
• 1:09:21
  a great Viking in his own right. But Kevin Williams an amazing, amazing,
• 1:09:26
  amazing Viking. Nice. It's a good pick, all right. My
• 1:09:30
  final honorable mention is not a player. Actually, we might have the same
• 1:09:34
  guy of Oh boy, he's been with the Vikings since two thousand and two.
• 1:09:42
  We do not have the same guy of Okay, we don't have the
• 1:09:44
  same guy. That's fine. You'll know who this is right away, We've
• 1:09:48
  already referenced him, not directly, but indirectly at least I quoted him,
• 1:09:55
  and I quoted him because he is still currently the voice of Vikings play by
• 1:10:01
  play commentator Paul Allen. He's on my list because I've spent way too much
• 1:10:11
  time in the car driving back and forth from Minnesota as a kid listening to
• 1:10:15
  him call games. And it would not be an all time list if it
• 1:10:20
  weren't for Paul Allen. I just I wouldn't have the same love and appreciation
• 1:10:27
  for Vikings football if it weren't for him, his passion, his excitement,
• 1:10:31
  the way that he calls games. I know that he's accused of being a
• 1:10:36
  homer, quite a homer. There's not an accusation he is a homer.
• 1:10:41
  I think he wears that badge prowd. He sure does, but as Vikings
• 1:10:45
  fans, we love him for it. I know he's he's had some controversy
• 1:10:49
  for some of the things he said on air. Mild controversy. I don't
• 1:10:55
  think he's like getting fined or anything, but he is known for being critical
• 1:11:00
  of other teams when they come after our guys. He's also known for being
• 1:11:05
  critical of our own guys. I haven't listened to any of his calls really
• 1:11:11
  this year, but I would have to guess that he's been critical of some
• 1:11:15
  of the play in this twenty three to twenty four season. But even that
• 1:11:21
  aside, like just the passion, the excitement, the energy that he brings.
• 1:11:29
  I could simply just listen to him and not even watch the games and
• 1:11:33
  have just as much enjoyment doing that. So we are out of staters.
• 1:11:40
  We live in Iowa, not Minnesota, but if we did live in Minnesota,
• 1:11:44
  or if I ever figure out a way to do it, I would
• 1:11:46
  definitely mute the TV and just listen to his broadcast the whole every game.
• 1:11:54
  He is a homer. If you're not a Vikings fan, you're not gonna
• 1:11:56
  love him as much as we do. You can respect him he is.
• 1:12:00
  He is such an entertaining caller of games. I listen to his daily radio
• 1:12:06
  show. Not every day I used to, but I mean, life happens
• 1:12:10
  now. He loves this team so much. If anyone who's not a Viking
• 1:12:17
  deserves to be named a Viking, it's him. He loves this team so
• 1:12:23
  much. He just exudes excitement and he is the voice of Vikings fans.
• 1:12:31
  Yes, he's the voice of the Vikings. He is the voice of Vikings
• 1:12:34
  fans. Even if he ever has an opinion that you don't agree with,
• 1:12:39
  you gotta respect it because he's gonna back himself up. Like if he ever
• 1:12:43
  said, like, no, we shouldn't start this guy, and here's why,
• 1:12:46
  and maybe you think they do need to start that guy, You're at
• 1:12:48
  least gonna listen to him and respect what he's saying. He's so fun,
• 1:12:53
  so entertaining. He should be when it's all said and done. He needs
• 1:12:57
  to be in the Vikings Ring of Honor. Absolutely, and other teams in
• 1:13:00
  other sports and other organizations have done that. For radio announcers, I think
• 1:13:05
  he's absolutely on deserving. Yeah yeah, And if we you know, if
• 1:13:13
  he retires at some point, we've gone just an unreasonable amount of time without
• 1:13:18
  him being in the Ring of Honor. I will personally sit in front of
• 1:13:21
  the stadium for as long as it takes with a sign saying put Pa in
• 1:13:26
  the Ring of Honor. It won't take that because they'll do it like the
• 1:13:30
  day he says he's going to retire. But he's a Viking and he's not
• 1:13:33
  on my list. But my goodness, that's a great pick. He probably
• 1:13:39
  even deserves to not be just an honorable mention, Like, yeah, he's
• 1:13:43
  not a player, he's never I don't know. Does it get paid by
• 1:13:46
  the team, Sure, I don't know. He's a Viking. He is
• 1:13:49
  a Viking in every sense of the word. I will say my family helped
• 1:13:55
  me a little bit with this, my parents, my sister and brother in
• 1:13:58
  law, And that was one that I hadn't thought of. Corey Stringer was
• 1:14:01
  an honorable mention that I was like, yeah, I definitely have to,
• 1:14:04
  Like, I mean, the news article and stuff in my display case is
• 1:14:09
  like enough. And someone else recommended Paul Allen. I'm like, yes,
• 1:14:14
  yep, one hundred percent going on my list. I don't even care if
• 1:14:15
  he's not a player. He's going in. He deserves it. So he
• 1:14:20
  has enhanced my my fanhood. I am more of a fan than I would
• 1:14:26
  be without him, just because he he is the entertainer. He is great
• 1:14:30
  pick. Yep. I'm interested to know who your final honorable mention is before
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  we get to our final final picks. Yeah, you'll agree with this.
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  He is on the list of the fifty greatest Vikings. Most of the names
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  we've said are on that list. Never played for the Vikings in the sense
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  that he never performed football acts on the field. He is the greatest coach
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  in the history of the Minnesota Vikings. The late great Bud Grant also a
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  great pick, and he deserves to be on the list. He is a
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  Viking and in every sense of the word yeah. Because he never played for
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  the team. He's not a Vikings player, but he played in the sense
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  that he coached, and he played the game of football in the strategy sense.
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  One of the greatest Vikings of all time, the unofficial mascot. Towards
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  the end of his life, it's a tragedy he never got to see the
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  Vikings win a Super Bowl, if for nobody else but for him. They
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  should have figured out a way to do it. I mean, obviously they
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  try every year to their best ability. But I think he still has an
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  office at Winter Park, or not Winter Park, at TCO whatever it's called.
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  Yeah, and I think he will. I mean, I think they
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  better not touch that room. A commemorative thing to arguably the greatest man to
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  have ever been a part of that organization. I would go as far to
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  say that yeah. Yeah, it's just it's so great that they have included
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  him in as much as they have the last decade or two. I think
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  Kevin O'Connell as a person grew a lot and is very much a better coach
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  because of his relationship with Bud Grant before his passing. A great Viking should
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  be on the list. He's an honorable mention ultimately for me because he wasn't
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  a player, so I kind of broke the rule a little bit there too.
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  But yeah, I'm I'm gonna fight for his name to be on the
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  list till the cows come home. He may. I'd be shocked if he's
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  not in the Ring of Honor. He will be soon. I think he
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  is. He already. I'd be shocked if he wasn't already. If he
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  had a number, it should be retired. They played Canadian football, I
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  think before he made his way to coach, and I think he coached Canadian
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  foot well. He coached for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. I think he did
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  win a championship with them. I think he played in Canada before coaching,
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  and then he coached in Canada, and then he made his way to Connesota.
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  Yeah, still one of the greatest Vikings of all time, agreed one
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  hundred percent. Well, we each have one more on our list mine yours
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  is your number one. My number is just on my list, so they
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  might be a little bit different. I'm intrigued to know. I'm trying to
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  thank your list back who's not listed, So I'll just recap mine really quick.
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  JJ number ten, hit Man number nine, also online, Paul Kraus
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  number eight, also on mine, tarking to number seven. Purple People Eaters
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  were number six, page Eller Marshall also on mine individually, but yeah,
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  Robert Smith number five, not online, Dante Colepepper number four, Adrian Peterson
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  number three, also online, Randy Moss number two, also online. That's
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  all right, my honorable mentions, Corey Stringer, Paul Allen, yep,
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  so I'll give you my number one. Thirteen thousand, eight hundred and ninety
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  nine yards, eight time Pro bowler, two time All Pro, one hundred
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  and thirty touchdowns played from nineteen ninety to two thousand and one. But the
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  Mike surprised by this. The Vikings weren't his first team, or his last
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  or his last. He played for the Dolphins at the end of his career
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  too. That's right. Do you know who it is. I'm surprised.
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  It's not a bad pick. I'm not saying you shouldn't have picked Chris Carter
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  your number one Viking of all time. I am surprised, though I would
• 1:18:41
  have put Randy above Carter. Well, Chris as a Viking was better than
• 1:18:46
  Randy, played longer. Yep, okay, and has I mean in some
• 1:18:53
  ways double the stats. He has eleven hundred and one catches, one hundred
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  and thirty touchdowns, and teeny and ninety nine yards, and all of his
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  accolades, Pro Bowls, all Pro led the league in catches and receiving touchdowns.
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  He led the league in catches in ninety four and then receiving touchdowns in
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  ninety five, ninety seven, and ninety nine. All of those were with
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  the Vikings. None of those were with the Eagles or the Dolphins. Chris
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  Carter is a Viking. Yeah, I don't care what you say. And
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  I know a little bit of the background. I know that he was kind
• 1:19:29
  of a hot mess in Philly. There was some addictions and personal problems going
• 1:19:33
  on off the field that affected his play. But similar to who was it
• 1:19:41
  that you mentioned Jared Allen. Yeah, before becoming a Viking. When Chris
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  Carter number eighty made his way to Minnesota, those things seemingly went away and
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  he became I think the greatest Viking of all time. And a little bit
• 1:19:59
  of that is personal and subjective because my childhood years I had a poster of
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  him doing his typical touchdown celebration, down on one knee, finger up in
• 1:20:11
  the air. I am pretty sure we share a similar birthday. At one
• 1:20:16
  point I thought we shared a birthday, but I think we're off by like
• 1:20:23
  two or three days maybe. But I always thought that was super cool too,
• 1:20:27
  to like share a birthday or be close to sharing a birthday with one
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  of your favorite athletes of all time. I actually do have I think it's
• 1:20:34
  a printed autograph, but it's still an autographed picture of number eighty there in
• 1:20:41
  my display case, and I think I have a card or two. There's
• 1:20:44
  two there that I can see, So yeah, it personally, and I
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  also think his play backs it up. I think he is my number one
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  Viking, yeah, of all time. I mean, it's it's hard to
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  argue with you saying Viking specific stats. Excuse me, definitely put him over
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  Randy Moss statistically as Vikings. Yeah, I mean that's that's you can't argue
• 1:21:12
  with that too much. I mean you could kind of get nitpicky and say,
• 1:21:16
  oh, Frank targeton maybe or whatever. But I mean, yeah,
• 1:21:20
  unless JJ eclipses all of those numbers, Yeah, that's a hard one to
• 1:21:27
  fight. Yeah, good pick of Thanks, that was fun. I liked
• 1:21:31
  putting this list together. Yeah, I'm interested to know who you've got as
• 1:21:34
  your final well my final pick. And again I didn't break these down into
• 1:21:40
  best to worst or you know, almost greatest to greatest. Sure, but
• 1:21:45
  I think this is another one that maybe it's kind of a safe pick,
• 1:21:49
  but you're not going to be able to really argue with it. Let's see
• 1:21:53
  if you can figure it out. Have they been mentioned already? I don't
• 1:21:58
  think so. If they have, it was quickly in passing, making the
• 1:22:05
  scan to make sure they're like. He was the nineteenth overall pick. He
• 1:22:14
  started two hundred and twenty games. I don't know if those were consecutive or
• 1:22:17
  not, but there had to have been a long streak in there. At
• 1:22:21
  least twelve time pro bowler. Wow. He plays a position that does not
• 1:22:29
  accumulate a lot of personal stats. You and he I don't know about currently,
• 1:22:38
  but at some points have shared an occupation. He's a Hall of famer.
• 1:22:45
  He went into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in two thousand and nine.
• 1:22:50
  Again, he was a nineteenth overall pick, but that was in nineteen
• 1:22:55
  eighty eight and he played through the ninety nine season. I believe he was
• 1:23:00
  only ever a Viking. His number is not retired. That rules out I
• 1:23:08
  was gonna say, Matt Burke. It is not Matt Burke. It rules
• 1:23:12
  him out. But you're warmer, warmer, gosh, is there your occupations?
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  Is there a four in his jersey? There is a four on his
• 1:23:27
  jersey numbers at four zero, No, it is not for zero. Clein
• 1:23:30
  Saucer, while a fan favorite, I don't know if he racked up the
• 1:23:34
  personal numbers to be the greatest of all time. Although fan favorite, definitely
• 1:23:40
  a memorable and really good memorable. Clin Saucer was a second round pick,
• 1:23:44
  like really good. Yeah, I don't know. I'm struggling. He played
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  guard, and no, I'm not talking about Steve Hutchinson, who could argue
• 1:23:54
  being on this list as well, but he's not sure. I think just
• 1:24:00
  the biggest number is twelve time pro bowler. He's the greatest guard in Vikings
• 1:24:03
  history. I of course am talking about Randall McDaniel. That's a good pick.
• 1:24:09
  Yeah, who I believe was famously a kindergarten teacher or elementary school teacher
• 1:24:14
  for a little while. I don't know if he still is. He is
• 1:24:16
  our parents' age, born in the mid sixties. Yeah, one of the
• 1:24:24
  greatest Vikings of all time. It's a good thing at guard if they're not
• 1:24:28
  talking about how many sacks you've given up, or if they're not mentioning your
• 1:24:30
  name all the time, because that means you're probably doing your job. And
• 1:24:33
  I feel like those stats didn't really come on until the last decade of the
• 1:24:39
  NFL, where there's all these like PFF grades and stuff like that, Like,
• 1:24:45
  yeah, offensive line, there weren't a lot of stats to gauge how
• 1:24:51
  well they played. You are correct in saying that if we weren't talking about
• 1:24:56
  you, you were doing a good job. So I definitely agree with you,
• 1:24:59
  and I think Randall McDaniel is definitely a wonderful pick, and I think
• 1:25:03
  he deserves to be in any top ten. So yeah, again, just
• 1:25:09
  because he was the last guy I named doesn't mean he was my number one.
• 1:25:12
  I'm not saying he's the greatest Viking of all time. Sure, but
• 1:25:15
  if you really were to get nitpicky, you could argue he's not a bad
• 1:25:18
  choice for being greatest Viking of all time. It's just he's not a flashy,
• 1:25:24
  sexy position, you know. It's just I couldn't not have him on
• 1:25:29
  that list. Any Hall of Famer, NFL Hall of Famer, it's hard
• 1:25:32
  to not have them on this list unless they're current guys or a guy like
• 1:25:38
  Adrian Peterson who's not yet in the Hall of Fame. I think that's just
• 1:25:44
  a timing thing. He's not eligible yet. But yeah, Randal McDaniel definitely
• 1:25:48
  a top ten viking of all time. In my eyes, those are good
• 1:25:53
  picks. I think both of us, between our lists had a really good
• 1:25:58
  group of vikings. Yeah, I mean you could argue order and maybe getting
• 1:26:01
  it picky about you know a guy or two that wasn't on the official list,
• 1:26:06
  but overall, like you're not saying I don't think there's a guy on
• 1:26:11
  here or or your list that it's like, no way, of course this
• 1:26:15
  guy shouldn't be on the list, Like, right, I don't know.
• 1:26:18
  I think for me maybe like maybe like Dante, I would kind of maybe
• 1:26:26
  raise my eyes at but he's still one of the greatest Vikings of all time.
• 1:26:30
  It's hard to argue any of these guys. Yeah, And at the
• 1:26:34
  end of the day, it's a subjective list that we created based on very
• 1:26:40
  arbitrary ideas and thoughts. And the only rule was really they had to have
• 1:26:45
  spent most of their career as a Viking, which I think we followed that
• 1:26:47
  rule. Oh yeah for the most part. So I can't think of anybody
• 1:26:51
  that didn't spend a majority of their career as a Viking. Yeah, there
• 1:26:56
  were players that have played for other teams, but yeah, I mean all
• 1:27:00
  of these guys spent at least a year with another team, yeah somewhere.
• 1:27:03
  And that's typical in the league as well. Yeah, especially modern NFL as
• 1:27:09
  well. Right right, I liked this. That was a lot of fun.
• 1:27:13
  Yeah, I would definitely do we should do something like that again,
• 1:27:15
  maybe a position group or that would be fun era specific. I even thought,
• 1:27:21
  and I brought this to you a few days ago, like the top
• 1:27:25
  ten quote unquote what if players of all time? Like what if they didn't
• 1:27:29
  get injured, or what if they were nice off the field? You know,
• 1:27:32
  like just what if? Like, yeah, what if Randy had played
• 1:27:35
  more games with the Vikings? Like I'm a fan of Marvel and they do
• 1:27:41
  the what if TV show and it's like, what if you know this happened
• 1:27:45
  a different way? So we could say, like, oh, what if
• 1:27:47
  you know Brett Fara was drafted by the Viking? You know, stuff like
• 1:27:50
  that, right, but or more more likely to our list, like what
• 1:27:55
  if Dante didn't blow his knee out? And Bradford? Yeah, home,
• 1:28:00
  gosh, Sam Bradford. That hurts my soul to think about how good that
• 1:28:03
  could have been. We're gonna have to run to the store and get some
• 1:28:06
  more beer and we'll hit record again and we'll just be here all night,
• 1:28:11
  pay no attention to the style of our clothes or the anger level of our
• 1:28:15
  wives as we record for days and days and days. This was really fun
• 1:28:19
  though, and definitely something that we will have to do again. Absolutely let
• 1:28:25
  us know if you liked this episode. Should we do more of these?
• 1:28:28
  Yeah? Please? And who you would have on your top ten list?
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  Yeah? Comment away. I mean let us know and be nice, but
• 1:28:35
  if you disagree, let us know we're not, don't. I'm not tied
• 1:28:40
  to my list. I could be convinced. I spent an hour on my
• 1:28:43
  list. Yeah, so about the same. What do you think of the
• 1:28:46
  make Waves amber ale? I really like this beer. I may have found
• 1:28:51
  my new favorite amber interesting Yeah, and not a terrible price. I found
• 1:28:57
  it at our local high v and I will brood beer from No Coast in
• 1:29:02
  Oscaloosa. The can looks cool. It's a big cracking It just looks cool.
• 1:29:09
  Isn't there like a little tagline on the bottom of the can cracking to
• 1:29:12
  a cold one? Yeah, cracking k R A k E N to a
• 1:29:16
  cold One's that's fun. Five point two percent. It's definitely crushable. We
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• 1:29:25
  that. Well done, No Coast, Yeah, thank you, No Coast.
• 1:29:29
  We like it. We like it a lot. And after trying the
• 1:29:31
  van Go and now this Make Waves, I have to try more No Coast
• 1:29:35
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• 1:29:39
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• 1:29:43
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