Can we have the Vikings of the 1970s back?

[KitchenWitch]

Please?

[AntiCoup2K4]

1. You think Tarkenton can still throw a football?

Hell, I haven't even seen the guy in an infomercial for a while. Is he still around?

[KitchenWitch]

2. He is still alive

Probably can't throw anymore though :cry:

[hfojvt]

6. might have a better chance with two minute Tommy

or Brad Johnson.

[no name no slogan]

36. Only if he's sober

A drunken Tommy Kramer serves nobody's purpose.

[SaveElmer]

10. Yeah...

He was in Ziggy's suite at last weeks game I think!

[madinmaryland]

37. Didn't he always choke in the Super Bowl.

The Jim Kelly of the 70's.

[hfojvt]

3. I am not sure that would work

I heard that Duante Culpepper weighs more than Alan Page did. I think those little guys would get eaten in this day of BGH and steroids.

[Robeson]

9. I think she is talking more about attitude.

[hfojvt]

14. the attitude

is partly due to the size and the salary. It's about power and thinking you are a god.

[Robeson]

17. That would be true, if there wasn't such as thing as the New England....

...Patriots, Pittsburgh Steelers, Atlanta Falcons, Philadelphia Eagles, Denver Broncos, Dallas Cowboys, Indianapolis Colts, Jacksonville Jaguars, Seattle Seahawks, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, New York Giants and others, which demonstrate that you can have big players, big salaries, and the right attitude....

[KitchenWitch]

15. Precisely!

Thank you for reading between my lines!

:hi:

[Robeson]

16. No prob. I was there. Saw them. Watched them. There is no comparison.

[MN ChimpH8R]

39. Page played at 220-225 lbs

Safetys today are heavier than Page was. But Page had phenomenal speed and moves. The biggest guy on the Purple People Eaters line was Carl Eller at about 6'5" and The Moose only weighed 265. Football players are so much bigger now than 30 years ago that it's scary.

Culpepper goes about the same height/weight as Eller. Tark was a little guy - just under six feet and about 190.

[SaveElmer]

4. Won't happen until...

Players who exhibit this type of despicable behavior are truly punished, as are those coaches and owners who enable it. If these players did what is alleged (and my understadning is that it is a slam dunk), they ought to be immedietely released. And Mike Tice, who should have been retired based on his performance, should follow.

Keeping them on just helps tarnish thes rest of the team, the state, and the league

Ziggy has an opportunity here to be a stand up guy...he needs to take advantage of it!!!

Jeez...can you imagine Bud Grant putting up with this?!!!

[KitchenWitch]

5. Bud Grant?

Not only would the players have been released, they would have fucking whip marks on their asses.

[SaveElmer]

8. He could be a bad ass...

I remember he wouldn't let the players have a hand warmer on the sidelines during those freezing games at the Met. I remember Fran Tarkenton hugging Bud on the sidelines after winning the NFC championship one year...and the news guys all joked he did it to slip his hands in Bud's coat pockets to get warm!!!

Man those were the days!!!

[hfojvt]

11. You must know

he played in the NBA and the NFL. Apparently still alive at 78.
http://www.profootballhof.com/hof/member.jsp?player_id=79

[SaveElmer]

12. Yeah he is...

Spends his time fishing in Northern Minnesota these days I hear!!!

[KitchenWitch]

13. His son is the head coach at Eden Prairie High School

in Minnesota.

[Robeson]

7. You know, I remember going to their games back then, and watching them...

...play. We'd get to the games very early. We'd watch them come to the stadiums, and get off the buses. Everyone of them was wearing a suit, and carrying a briefcase. Now, with my pony-tail and earring, I would be the last to say everyone should look like a robo-banker. But you know what, they seemed to exude a sense of purpose. They were professionals.

[Archae]

18. Yeah, you'll never see any of the Packers doing any of that...

Oh...Mark Chmura? Uh...never mind... :-)

[Robeson]

19. Damn. You beat me to it.....

...I was just aching to throw that into a Packers fans face.....x(

[KitchenWitch]

20. ROFL

Didn't Brett Favre have some sort of drug problem there for awhile?

;)

[Archae]

21. Yeah, to painkillers.

n/t

[Wapsie B]

22. I just heard snippets of some story today about the Vikes

and it didn't sound like it was good. Tice isn't fit to be mentioned in the same breath as Bud.

[KitchenWitch]

23. It is dreadful

If team members want to have wild sex orgies, rent a suite at a hotel, so that the employees of the hotel are not subjected to seeing it.

I feel bad for the party boat company and its employees who had to put up with that.

Tice was asked if he had lost control of the team. He ummed and erred, and did not really answer the question. He never had control of the team in the first place.

[Wapsie B]

24. I thought I heard it had something to do with sex.

There needs to be an ass-kicker for a head coach like Grant or Ditka. This is enough and hopefully the nail in Mikey's coffin.

[Archae]

25. Ditka? Heck. They need Vince Lombardi!

I talked to a Packer (forgot his name now) a couple decades ago about how much Vince Lombardi would yell at players who missed curfew, much less pulled a stunt like what the Vikings did on that boat and in that woman's yard.

[hfojvt]

28. didn't Paul Hornung play for him?

I thought the golden boy was a notorious womanizer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Hornung
They do not say anything about womanizing though.

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[MN ChimpH8R]

40. Hornung was suspended for a year for gambling, IIRC

but he's still an all-time Packer great.

[Wapsie B]

29. I didn't hear about the yard incident.

Someone needs to take control and it ain't Tice.

[KitchenWitch]

30. Agreed

Not that Tice is capable of taking control.

[Archae]

31. About 6 or so of them lined up

On some woman's yard and peed all over.

Sounds like a pack of dogs marking territory. :eyes:

[Wapsie B]

32. Good god.

Cut their sorry asses and blackball them from the league. The way they've been playing there's got to be league castoffs better than this.

[Deja Q]

34. Tice? The doorknob on my lavatory door has more intelligence than he does.

[BrotherBuzz]

26. Only if I can have the 49ers of the eighties back

I'm talking Bill Walsh and Joe Montana.

[KitchenWitch]

27. You got it!

[Kickin_Donkey]

33. Loved the Purple People Eaters ...

and I'm not even from Minnesota.

[Beausoir]

38. Bring back Bud!

This incident has enraged a LOT of Minnesotans.

What a bunch of criminal pigs.

I heard Tark giving a radio intereview during the game two weeks ago. He still referred to the Vikings as "we." These pigs have defiled Minnesota, the Vikings, Tark and Grant and Kramer and all those good players and people who wore the purple.

I told my husband that Grant would have kicked some asses and he said "That was a different era". I call bullshit. Whores have been around for thousands of years. Men have been buying whores for thousands of years. It's only in times like these, with the guidance of Mike Tice, that the whores are brought out in public, in front of normal people, to do their business. Sickening.

And last night Tice stated that this whole thing was a conspiracy to "hang him out to dry". I saw him say it. He actually thinks that someone is making him lose games, lose control of his team, in order to hang him out to dry. When I saw him say that...I knew he would be fired. Probably not before this week's game...but he WILL be fired.

[MN ChimpH8R]

41. In the days of Bud Grant, coaches had more control

and the players made a lot less money. It's pretty hard for a coach to intimidate a guy who makes $6 million a year. You can't pay that kind of cash for a player and stand him on the sidelines. In Bud's day players had off-season jobs to make ends meet. Times have changed and coaches don't have near as much control of players away from the game. And you can't cut 10 or 15 guys in the middle of the season and put out a scrub team. I suspect the NFL brass would very much frown on that.

Players on the mid-90s Cowboys did the same kind of crap, only behind closed doors. I am NOT excusing the imbecilic and classless behavior of the Viking players, but to think that this kind of thing doesn't go on elsewhere is naive.

Tice is a dead man walking. Zygi will clean house at the end of the year and you will see a whole new coaching staff and a substantial turnover in personnel. Unlike McCombs, Wilf will bite the bullet and spend the cash.

[Democrats_win]

42. Now we know why the team is playing so badly.

[Dan-W]

43. Sure, I'll trade ya

for the Celtics of the 1960s.