Poll: Your First Vikings Head Coach
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Poll: Your First Vikings Head Coach
I'm curious to know when the fans here started following the Vikes.
Grant was the coach when I began following the team (and it wasn't in '85).
Grant was the coach when I began following the team (and it wasn't in '85).
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Re: Poll: Your First Vikings Head Coach
I started after superbowl 5. I was a cowboys fan as a kid then I saw the Vikes on TV the next season when the cowboys beat the dolphins in the next superbowl. Long time waiting Sigh, Sigh, sigh,
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Re: Poll: Your First Vikings Head Coach
Well I have followed and liked them since the Green era but, living an hour outside of STL, was a Rams fan until they moved. So Zimmer would be my "first" as a true Vikings fan.
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Re: Poll: Your First Vikings Head Coach
Jerry Burns and that crazy mop on his head! 

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Re: Poll: Your First Vikings Head Coach
I might have replied only one or two times on here, but I miss the purple people eater days. Bud Grant,early 1970’s.
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Re: Poll: Your First Vikings Head Coach
It was borderline but i had to go with Dennis Green since I didn't really starting watching weekly and understanding until around the 1993 season. (coincidentally around the same time i got heavy into football cards)
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Re: Poll: Your First Vikings Head Coach
Burns, but I was young and didn't watch seriously until Green.
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Re: Poll: Your First Vikings Head Coach
Bud Grant here. Born in 64 and was wearing Vikings pjs by time I was walking. I was brought up right. The day that Drew Pearson pushed off on Nate Wright.. the beginning of refs screwing us for me.. on the stupid Hail Mary pass was the 1st time my mom heard her little son drop the F bomb. Thankfully Dad was as mad as me and gave me a pass lol
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Re: Poll: Your First Vikings Head Coach
In light of our coordinator trouble and by the way they won the game
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Re: Poll: Your First Vikings Head Coach
Bud Grant, the later years.
Jerry Burns was my favorite though. He sounded like a drunk from any bar in NE MPLS (say, Mayslacks) when he gave pressers. One of my all time favorite videos, one I go to if life is tough and I need a laugh, is Burnsy cussing his way through a press conference. The guy was just so authentic and so upper midwestern. I've lived in far away places for a good chunk of my life. Burnsy is like comfort food that reminds me of home.
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This video's not safe for work, but listen to how he goes to bat for Schnelker, his coordinator. Pretty darn interesting in light of the recent firing of JDF and questions swirling about Zimmer being a player's coach, but maybe not a coordinator's coach.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNcBFZ26lcI
Jerry Burns was my favorite though. He sounded like a drunk from any bar in NE MPLS (say, Mayslacks) when he gave pressers. One of my all time favorite videos, one I go to if life is tough and I need a laugh, is Burnsy cussing his way through a press conference. The guy was just so authentic and so upper midwestern. I've lived in far away places for a good chunk of my life. Burnsy is like comfort food that reminds me of home.
Edit to add:
This video's not safe for work, but listen to how he goes to bat for Schnelker, his coordinator. Pretty darn interesting in light of the recent firing of JDF and questions swirling about Zimmer being a player's coach, but maybe not a coordinator's coach.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNcBFZ26lcI
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Re: Poll: Your First Vikings Head Coach
Bowhunting Viking wrote: ↑Wed Dec 12, 2018 12:19 pmBud Grant here. Born in 64 and was wearing Vikings pjs by time I was walking. I was brought up right. The day that Drew Pearson pushed off on Nate Wright.. the beginning of refs screwing us for me.. on the stupid Hail Mary pass was the 1st time my mom heard her little son drop the F bomb. Thankfully Dad was as mad as me and gave me a pass lol

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Re: Poll: Your First Vikings Head Coach
I remember that press conference well! It's classic Burns. He really was a likable guy.Texas Vike wrote: ↑Wed Dec 12, 2018 12:51 pmBud Grant, the later years.
Jerry Burns was my favorite though. He sounded like a drunk from any bar in NE MPLS (say, Mayslacks) when he gave pressers. One of my all time favorite videos, one I go to if life is tough and I need a laugh, is Burnsy cussing his way through a press conference. The guy was just so authentic and so upper midwestern. I've lived in far away places for a good chunk of my life. Burnsy is like comfort food that reminds me of home.
Edit to add:
This video's not safe for work, but listen to how he goes to bat for Schnelker, his coordinator. Pretty darn interesting in light of the recent firing of JDF and questions swirling about Zimmer being a player's coach, but maybe not a coordinator's coach.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNcBFZ26lcI
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Re: Poll: Your First Vikings Head Coach
I think I remember the 85 year with Bud Grant (I was 10 years old), but Jerry Burns was coach when I really started paying attention.
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Re: Poll: Your First Vikings Head Coach
Introduced to the Vikings in the 1st or 2nd grade and been cursed ever since (born in 67). Wouldn't have it any other way though. It's going to be sweeeeet when the Vikings win their first SB.
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