I love the way Bud Grant had the players line up the same way with helmets off for the national anthem... Todays coaches and players could learn from this team.
Get over Minnesota viking superbowl losses ;; it like Michigan football losing in the rosebowl in the 1970s to usc or pac ten football champion; it hurts alots
An accurate statement by Pat Summerall that the Viking defensive front was, "one of the best in pro football history." The late 60s Rams, Colts and Cowboys were also ferocious.
@@jjmill5209 The Chiefs were physically big and just overpowered them on both sides of the ball in that 4th Super Bowl. And, the Vikings weren't ready for those multiple formations the Chefs ran. They were ready for them early the next season, though, and crushed the Chiefs at Bloomington. In the Super Bowl vs Raiders, they had a hellacious and distracting practice arrangement that Bud Grant even complained about. Spent tons of time on fatiguing bus trips to and from the practice site. They didn't have it together for the game. And, Miami just did what the Chiefs did, but less fancy - ran right at them. Vikes had a fast and quick- pursuing defense, but they DID have problems when big teams ran right at them. And, the Pittsburgh Steelers were just better than anybody in the mid-to-late 1970s.
@@GodEqualstheSquaRootof-1 4 in my case. The KC Chiefs played a great well thought out game where everyone on the Vikings were in retrospect scouted out ahead of time. They did their homework and the Vikings didn't. Plus the Vikings were a tad overconfident. They handily beat the Chiefs in the first game of the 1970 regular season 24-10 I believe, but they learned their lesson the hard way, losing when it really counted. KC had to wait 50 years for another SB. But they won the Big Game and that's all anyone ever remembers. Sad, because the Vikings of the late 60s to mid 70s were were such a great team with lots of Hall of Famers, mostly on defense though.
My Vikes ! 💗 I’m now 57 Absolutely wonderful memories ! Even though heartbreaking 40 years from 1969-2009😳 #44 Chuck Forman was NFL ROOKIE of the year in 1973 and was a HUGE PART of why Minnesota went to 3 Super Bowls in his first 4 seasons ! ( should have bee 4 in a row , 1975 was their best team ! .....Dallas Hail Mary game 😳....The Vikes win just one of those SB , Chuck would be in the NFL Hall of Fame 🏈⭐️
I'm from Massachusetts, when I was a kid I loved the Vikings, I wore #88 in High School for Alan Page,I also played Def Tackle.Knew all the position players and was in my parents car coming back from Vacation when the news flash came on AM radio about Kassulke's Motorcycle accident! Sad Day!
I'm almost 56 and though I'm a Cowboys fan, the Vikings in the '70s were an awesome team no matter what people think. They were stacked, unfortunately, they played in what was the GREATEST ERA IN THE HISTORY OF THE NFL!!! The 70's MADE NFL what it is today. Great video though a little tough to watch my Boys lose in the NFC Championship! I really wanted the Vikings to beat the Steelers!!! Thanks for the wonderful upload, I never tire of watching the NFL videos from the 70's.
I block 🚫 out of my mind Minnesota viking never winning a superbowl: : like having sexual intercouse with gorgeous looking woman lust/ ❤️ drug one night stand;; lust move on
Did you say amazing? Disappointing is more like it and it's compounded when 2 decades later in 1998 the 15-1 Vikings did not even get to the Superbowl.
In three of the four SBs they simply lost to better teams. The only one they had no business losing was to the Chiefs. Even without Joe Kapp, they stomped them the next season.
Agreed That was the best 1973 post season games. I was 7 years of age and this was my first year of watching pro football. Tarkenton even praised Billy Kilmer in the post game interview. Pat Fischer got an injury that put him out of the game and Tarkenton exploited that.
I was a 13 year old in 1973. Growing up in LA, I was a Rams fan and had all of the heartaches associated with the team. But I definitely remember all of the Vikings, appreciate you posting this.
This was the first year I started really watching much NFL football, and it started with the playoffs and the game between the Redskins and Vikings. Minnesota became my favorite team even before this, but that weekend is the first one that I can remember watching games (at age 7) and know what was going on. That playoff game was awesome.
Carl Eller was One of the best DE ever. He gets overshadowed a bit because he played in an era with awesome linemen like deacon jones and bubba smith and claude Humphrey and a few others but that guy was a sack master for sure.
purple sword I actually went to Canton the year he made the hall of fame and saw his hall of fame speech live. Very well spoken man who definitely was one of the best pass rushers ever and one of the key pieces to one of the best defenses ever.
Jim Marshall is even more underrated. The greatest player in NFL history who isn't in the HOF yet other than maybe Cliff Branch of the Raiders. Jim Plunkett, Lester Hayes, and Tom Flores should be in the HOF too along with Steve Tasker of the Buffalo Bills
This had to be Bud Grant's best Vikings team of his career. The win over Dallas in the NFC title game kind of seals it. Dallas played in 7 of 10 NFC title games in the 70's and went 5 and 2 in them. This was their only loss at home. In fact I think it was the only time they lost one at home in their whole franchise history. Just goes to show how truly great the Dolphins were to handle them so easily in SB-7. The '73 Dolphins were better than the undefeated '72 team. The '72 team won their 3 post-season games by a collective 20 points. The '73 team won by a collective 50.
I STILL CHERISH MEMORIES OF FRANCES ASBURY TARKENTON, THE SCRAMBLER, AND 1 OF MY ALL-TIME FAVORITE RBs, CHUCK FOREMAN! '73 MUST HAVE BEEN 1-2 YEARS B4 THE POPULAR NAME- 'PURPLE PEOPLE EATERS'!
And from 1973 to 1976, the same could be said for Chuck Foreman. The Vikings didn't always have great talent surrounding Fran Tarkenton. But during this time frame, they had the goods. If Sammy White had just been three years older.....
Watching football since 1969 , the Vikings had such good teams for so long , divisions , Nfc title championships, superbowls .I'm a Saints fan we got to the superbowl once and won, way it is in life and sports seems unfair
I'd been waiting for 4 years ,what seemed to be an eternity ( at least in the life of a 12 year old ) for the Vikings to get back in the Superbowl. Here they finally do it, and to the tune of Rainbows In The Endzone, about as perfect as life could possibly get. Here's the back breaker, and favorite play 22:52
I have been a Vikings fan ever since those days always love them and always hope one day they would win a Super Bowl I still hope for that maybe Kevin O’Connell will be the one to help deliver them a Lombardi trophy at long last
i admit it. i short-sold these vikings. getting to 4 straight title games is an accomplishment- and it took some of the greatest teams in history (73 dolphins 74-75 steelers and 76 raiders) to keep them out...
Never trust an old man’s memory. I read comments how playing outdoors in Minnesota was this huge viking advantage. Over the last 30 years of playing indoors, the Vikings have the largest difference in home wins/road wins. Yet, old men whine that their viqueens lost a huge advantage when they stopped playing their home games outdoors. I love it.
To me, Bill Brown defines the fullback - right up there with Jim Taylor and Tom Woodeshick from that era. Not a fancy runner, but dished out punishment and was tough to stop. Chuck Foreman was the best runner they'd had, at that point, IMO. He took their running game to a new level.
When Minnesota HC Bud Grrant coached for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the Canadian Football League he insisted his players practice standing on the sidelines in a straight line holding their helmets to instill pride and discipline. Grant continued the practice in Minnesota. Minnesota's Jim Marshall thought at first it was silly but as the season went on he came to realize that this tradition had a lot of merit to it.
I can’t remember what year it was but in the pro bowl I think it was like nine of the 11 starters on defense were Vikings I can’t believe there’s ever been a defense as good as there’s ever even today I truly believe if you could bring those guys back in their prime even the whole team the office if you can bring them back in their prime they would be very very competitive today this is a Jim mungai from Kennerdell Pennsylvania oh by the way it’s a judge Allen page our honor
In those days the Vikings were a Jekyll-and-Hyde team: they'd always win their division and usually do well in the playoffs, yet would always play like a 6-8 team in the Super Bowl.
I looked this up just for that reason. They look so good here. Deep purple with those shining helmets. This game, beating the Cowboys in Dallas to go to the Superbowl may have been their finest hour. I always loved how NFL Films showcased this game. Perfect music and a stifling, dominant Vikings performance. The Vikings did have the misfortune of playing against some of the 1970s great teams. Dolphins, Steelers, Raiders and an underated Chiefs team. Everyone always talks about the Vikings defense. But their offensive line was just as good. Ed White, Mick Tingelhoff, Ron Yary, Grady Alderman. 10:45 is a great rundown of those players. Jeff Siemon and Wally Hilgenberg were top notch linebackers as well. Of all teams the Vikings moving indoors was and is one of the stupidest moves in all of sports. They took what made the Vikings special, their entire personality and flushed it all down the toilet. And then they committed the second stupidest moves in all of sports when right after the 1987 team showed such great progress they handed that progress to the Cowboys for Herschel Walker. The Cowboys then built a dynasty in the 1990s off of Vikings draft picks. And with just one of the many draft picks they got from the Vikings they drafted hall of famer Emmitt Smith. While Herschel Walker stunk up Vikings offense until disappearing three years later. They have never fully recovered except for the 1998 Vikes who went 15-1 before Gary Anderson handed the Falcons a spot in the Superbowl.
One has to wonder how a team with such a great defense in the 1970s and good offensive weaponry manages to roll over and play dead when the Super Bowls came a calling!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Out-coached in SB 4 and every score in SB 9 came off a bounce or was set up off of a bounce. I know the Vikings were heavily favored in SB 4, but I think underdogs in the other three.
@@dwightlove3704 hail Mary Roger starback threw still breaks my heart 1975 today;; I hear Minnesota viking had the best record & still didn't play conference championship games at home 1973 :: silly rule
And he also was qb when Vikings reached 1977 NFC title game, after Tarkenton got hurt. He also did some punting, if I remember right, in earlier stint with Vikes. His daughter is news anchor Jenna Lee.
@@purplesword3800 I'm 57 and I remember that play like it was yesterday!..I threw a baseball across the room and almost broke my mother's favorite vase..lol..
Their other loss during the 1973 season was at the hands of the Cincinnati Bengals, who walloped them 27-0. They would shut the Vikings out again in 1980.
I always liked how the Vikings wore two different purple jerseys in 1973. If you'll notice, for most of the season, they wore a uniform without any trim on the sleeves. It was simply a purple jersey with white numbers. But for the Bears game and the Redskins game, they wore their usual uniform with the stripes on the sleeves. I never knew the reason for this. But I liked it and always loved their uniform no matter which one they wore. And to my knowledge, this was the last (maybe only) season they wore that one with no stripes on the sleeves. Pretty cool.
Ahhh, always wondered why that was !! I called it the " away home jerseys". They wore it against the Cowboys in the mid season 1974 game also in the 1969 game versus the Rams....both warm weather games just to name two. In the 73 playoff game , some players are wearing both versions of the purple jersey.
I agree it is not football anymore , player contact is mostly above the waist now , and check any play and nobody falls down on any given play anymore , and the ball carrier gets pushed out of bounds or falls to the ground himself , terrible and surprise no one get hurt any more (not that we want that ) whens the last time players jumped on the field and prayed on thier knees for a pulled groin ! That does happen anymore either !
+purple sword You could tell that the Lions were frustrated, especially when they should have won a handful of those games ( they did start to win in 1974, though). The Lions lost several nailbiters in 70, 71, 72 and 74..
@@massvt3821 the NFC Central sucked in the 70's. The Vikes were a lock to win it basically every year. The Bears first started getting good in the late 70's but the Vikes were still the better team even in the late 70's when Tarkenton and the front four were aging
+countvertigo1968 The song is called "The Pony Soldiers" and you can find it on the cd "The Power And The Glory: The Original Voices & Music From NFL Films".
Thanks,Randy! Been trying to find it and guess didn't stumble on when sifting through. Love these Vids.My set is missing 72 as well.I guess 7-7 didn't stick around!!
Do you mean the end of the highlight film, or the end of the added-on Super Bowl video? The 1973 Vikings yearbook video ends with "Rainbows in the Endzone". The Super Bowl video ends with "Pony Soldiers". If you check out Dave Volsky's page here on RUclips, you'll find every piece of NFLF music you can think of, and then some.
I would buy boxed sets of these highlight films if they were available (so far only Super Bowls have been available) IF I knew I was getting these originals with the original soundtracks. These days, some idiots are always changing that to "modernize" things. GRRRRR!!!!!
somebody help me please---if this is the year that they lost SB 9 to Pitt,then this is the year AFTER losing SB8 to Miami--so this ISNT fran's 1st playoff games as the video said....and I believe they beat the rams to get to SB 9....OK,I'M NOT CONFUSED ANYMORE--THEY ACCIDENTILLY PUT the WRONG Super Bowl ATTACHED TO THE 73 SEASON!!
This is the 73 highlights, leading to SB 8 vs. Dolphins. Then at the end of the first video is an additional video covering SB 9 the following year. Fran's arm still decent then. Nice team with Gilliam.
After one mediocre season, the Vikings return as a NFL power, winning the NFC title after beating Washington and Dallas in the playoffs. The Super Bowl, however, was another story..
Fwiw i think the Vikings woulda beaten the raiders if they met in superbowl 4. Lamonica woulda tried to throw deep alot and their style was more familiar than KC's power I.
The following season (1974), the NFL instituted many telling rule changes: moving the goal posts to the back of the end zone, moving the hash marks inwards, and introducing "sudden death" overtime for regular season games. I'm pretty sure it was also when "home-field" advantage for the playoffs, based on W/L records was introduced.
Mike: Indeed! I thought for (almost) certain it was '74; but from WikipediaMain article: 1974-75 NFL playoffsNote: Prior to the 1975 season, the home teams in the playoffs were decided based on a yearly rotation. Had the 1974 playoffs been seeded, the AFC divisional matchups would have been #3 Pittsburgh at #2 Miami and #4 wild card Buffalo at #1 Oakland; the NFC matchups would not have changed, although #1 Los Angeles would have had home field for the NFC championship game due to its head-to-head victory over #2 Minnesota in week 11.: Thanks!
Because back in 1973 the NFL playoffs used a rotational system which is why the game was played in Dallas despite Minnesota having the better record. The year prior Miami with a 14-0 record had to play in Pittsburgh despite the Steelers 11-3 record.
You know what? I think the Vikings should go back to their classic 70s uniforms. The 49ers did it and won a Super Bowl. So if the 49ers should go back to their heyday with classic uniforms, the Vikings should do the same.
These are NOT highlights of the 1973 season as advertised. it is the 1974 season. the NFL has been involved in a conspiracy to erase the greatest team and most dominant dynasty in football history from the NFL history, the Miami Dolphins Dynasty 1970-1974, and replace it with a team that the Dolphins, during the intersection of the 2 dynasties (1971-1973) annihilated 3 years in a row: the Pittsburgh Steelers. the dolphins beat the Steelers in those 3 years in every way one team can defeat another: in 1971, they beat Pittsburgh with 3 long bombs, Bob Griese to Paul Warfield (versus "the great" Mel Blount's coverage). in 1972 afc title game, they beat Pittsburgh with the single greatest running performance in NFL playoff history (in three rivers!). and in 1973, Miami beat Pittsburgh with defense, intercepting 6 passes of Bradshaw and Jefferson Street Joe Gilliam, 2 returned for touchdowns (the greatest strong safety, Dick Anderson grabbed 4 of those 4, returned to for TDs, and won Defensive player of the year, mainly based on that performance, a win which Miami didn't even need and a loss for the Steelers that lost them the central division title, made them the wild card, who were easily handled by Oakland, a week before Oakland was annihilated by Miami and 2 weeks before Miami annihilated the Minnesota Vikings in the single most dominant SB win in the history of that game. I am not now, nor have i ever been and Miami fan, even though grew up in miami and attended all their home games the entire 5 years of their dynasty. I was a Baltimore Colts fan from 1965, and hated MIami because they shut my colts out 4 games in a row.
Super bowls were frustrating. Bowl 4 01-11-70 lost to KC 23 to 7 then 09-20-70 only 8 months later beat them at home 27 to 10. Super bowl 9 01-12-75 lost to steelers 16 to 6 then on 10-04-76 they beat a better steelers team at home 17 to 6 in one of them most physical games you'll ever see.
Something about watching the Vikings of the 1970’s feels like real NFL. Some of my most memorable moments as a kid were these frigid Viking games.
Same
Minnesota viking used to play in the freezer; bud grant iceman ( Mr Freeze)
Absouletly disgusting they should of won 4 super bowls
I remember Foreman getting hit in the eye with a snowball after a game
They played in a real ball park back then. Domes are for pussies
My Vikes ! 😳 Heartbreak Hotel ..I’m now 57 , I ABSOLUTELY LOVE watching these classic memories
I love the way Bud Grant had the players line up the same way with helmets off for the national anthem... Todays coaches and players could learn from this team.
Bud grant would never let his Minnesota viking football players take one knee
Especially kneeling on one knee
It was a whole different era. I've been watching pro football since the late 60s and all the teams did that.
@@lloydkline1518 Again that was a whole different time. Players back then were a different breed of cat.
The Vikings of the Mid-70's get a bum rap for the Super Bowl losses,but what great teams
As a fan of 46yrs. I'm 51 I totally agree
The Vikings were the Buffalo Bills of their time.
❤the 1975 Minnesota viking
Get over Minnesota viking superbowl losses ;; it like Michigan football losing in the rosebowl in the 1970s to usc or pac ten football champion; it hurts alots
❤️ 1970s Minnesota viking 🏈 ; purple people eaters ; Minnesota viking great offensive line etc etc Fran tarkenton; bud grant
An accurate statement by Pat Summerall that the Viking defensive front was, "one of the best in pro football history."
The late 60s Rams, Colts and Cowboys were also ferocious.
❤️ purple people eater Minnesota viking 1960s/1970s
@@jjmill5209 The Chiefs were physically big and just overpowered them on both sides of the ball in that 4th Super Bowl. And, the Vikings weren't ready for those multiple formations the Chefs ran.
They were ready for them early the next season, though, and crushed the Chiefs at Bloomington.
In the Super Bowl vs Raiders, they had a hellacious and distracting practice arrangement that Bud Grant even complained about. Spent tons of time on fatiguing bus trips to and from the practice site. They didn't have it together for the game.
And, Miami just did what the Chiefs did, but less fancy - ran right at them. Vikes had a fast and quick- pursuing defense, but they DID have problems when big teams ran right at them. And, the Pittsburgh Steelers were just better than anybody in the mid-to-late 1970s.
How about the Pittsburgh Steelers steel curtain? They were instrumental in winning 4 Superbowls.
1970's - Glory Days for the Vikings. Made the playoffs almost every year and appeared in 4 Super Bowls. A great team.
Purple people eater
Chokers.
And the Vikings broke my heart in 3 of them in which I was old enough to watch. They were the most exciting team to watch in those days.
@@GodEqualstheSquaRootof-1 4 in my case. The KC Chiefs played a great well thought out game where everyone on the Vikings were in retrospect scouted out ahead of time. They did their homework and the Vikings didn't. Plus the Vikings were a tad overconfident. They handily beat the Chiefs in the first game of the 1970 regular season 24-10 I believe, but they learned their lesson the hard way, losing when it really counted. KC had to wait 50 years for another SB. But they won the Big Game and that's all anyone ever remembers. Sad, because the Vikings of the late 60s to mid 70s were were such a great team with lots of Hall of Famers, mostly on defense though.
JK 64 ok, thanks I guess. It wasn’t my fault though.
My Vikes ! 💗 I’m now 57 Absolutely wonderful memories ! Even though heartbreaking 40 years from 1969-2009😳 #44 Chuck Forman was NFL ROOKIE of the year in 1973 and was a HUGE PART of why Minnesota went to 3 Super Bowls in his first 4 seasons ! ( should have bee 4 in a row , 1975 was their best team ! .....Dallas Hail Mary game 😳....The Vikes win just one of those SB , Chuck would be in the NFL Hall of Fame 🏈⭐️
And so would Jim Marshall!..👍
good teams
My favorite Vikings highlight film ever, the music, the memories!!!!
Love the 1970s Minnesota Vikings, especially 1975 Minnesota Vikings
Bud grant / Mr freeze
@@lloydkline1518 No, " The Iceman" !
Don't like ringless Minnesota viking video
I'm an Eagles fan but I love watching the history of the league. Love watching old videos like this even the Cowboys lol.
DawgzofWar Falcons fan here and I’m the same way
I'm from Massachusetts, when I was a kid I loved the Vikings, I wore #88 in High School for Alan Page,I also played Def Tackle.Knew all the position players and was in my parents car coming back from Vacation when the news flash came on AM radio about Kassulke's Motorcycle accident! Sad Day!
I'm almost 56 and though I'm a Cowboys fan, the Vikings in the '70s were an awesome team no matter what people think. They were stacked, unfortunately, they played in what was the GREATEST ERA IN THE HISTORY OF THE NFL!!! The 70's MADE NFL what it is today. Great video though a little tough to watch my Boys lose in the NFC Championship! I really wanted the Vikings to beat the Steelers!!! Thanks for the wonderful upload, I never tire of watching the NFL videos from the 70's.
When the Vikings were the Vikings playing outdoors like they should today. And one of the best uniforms ever!
❤️ 1975 Minnesota viking;; Purples people eaters : Fran tarkenton etc etc
As a life long Vikings fan it's amazing the Vikings have never one a Super Bowl!
I block 🚫 out of my mind Minnesota viking never winning a superbowl: : like having sexual intercouse with gorgeous looking woman lust/ ❤️ drug one night stand;; lust move on
What even more amazing is they haven't made it back to the SB in over 40 years. Hard to believe and they had some great teams.
Did you say amazing? Disappointing is more like it and it's compounded when 2 decades later in 1998 the 15-1 Vikings did not even get to the Superbowl.
In three of the four SBs they simply lost to better teams. The only one they had no business losing was to the Chiefs. Even without Joe Kapp, they stomped them the next season.
@@markseslstorytellerchannel3418Which of those 2 games the Vikings wished they had won though
It was my distinct pleasure to meet Chuck Foreman! He asked me how I felt? I told him I felt I was eight years old again! What a hall of famer!
I certainly miss the old Viking teams.
Purple people eaters Minnesota viking
❤️ Minnesota viking 1970s: especially 1975 purple people eater; Fran tarkenton; mick tingelhoff & Ron yary & Ed white: great offensive line etc etc
Jeff and Nate were brothers...they grew up in a town called Mayberry....they were inseparable in youth...went to rock n roll hi school with Danny Zuko
Watch this all.day...
The 73 playoff game with the Redskins was one of the best games I've ever seen. Exciting and very competitive..
That was fran tarkenton's first playoff game in his career btw.
Agreed That was the best 1973 post season games. I was 7 years of age and this was my first year of watching pro football. Tarkenton even praised Billy Kilmer in the post game interview. Pat Fischer got an injury that put him out of the game and Tarkenton exploited that.
When I die I want the Vikings to bury me so they can let me down for the last time😖
@@donnacahill7166 1987 nfc championship game another disappointing loss for Minnesota viking fans
Jim Marshall was an amazing player and great man.
And deserves to be in the Hall of Fame!.
Threw the shot put at Ohio state university
Wrong way Marshall; ex Ohio state shot putrr
Got Robb; Jim marshall belong in NFL 🏈 football hall of fame canton, Ohio
It hear Jim marshall low pro bowl 🏈 games; today nobody wants to go to pro bowl game;; very easy to get in pro bowl substitute player
I was a 13 year old in 1973. Growing up in LA, I was a Rams fan and had all of the heartaches associated with the team. But I definitely remember all of the Vikings, appreciate you posting this.
This was the first year I started really watching much NFL football, and it started with the playoffs and the game between the Redskins and Vikings. Minnesota became my favorite team even before this, but that weekend is the first one that I can remember watching games (at age 7) and know what was going on. That playoff game was awesome.
❤ 1970s Minnesota viking, & ron yary, ed white & mick tilgelhoff, hall of fame offensive line
Randy, I read all the comments... thx, for these cool Vikes hi-lites. Nordic history and Jim Marshall is the God!(with Bill Brown as wing-man).
My beloved Vikings for ever
That piece right at 1:00 was coach Grant's National Anthem practice formation.
Loved watching the "TARK"
Leader of the Minnesota viking especially purple people eater Fran tarkenton
I really love watching these football shows from the60s and 70s this when I became fan of pro football
Carl Eller was One of the best DE ever. He gets overshadowed a bit because he played in an era with awesome linemen like deacon jones and bubba smith and claude Humphrey and a few others but that guy was a sack master for sure.
purple sword I actually went to Canton the year he made the hall of fame and saw his hall of fame speech live. Very well spoken man who definitely was one of the best pass rushers ever and one of the key pieces to one of the best defenses ever.
Jim Marshall is even more underrated. The greatest player in NFL history who isn't in the HOF yet other than maybe Cliff Branch of the Raiders. Jim Plunkett, Lester Hayes, and Tom Flores should be in the HOF too along with Steve Tasker of the Buffalo Bills
@@jeremythompson9122 flores finally made it. Now it's Jim Marshall's turn.. come on guys this guy certainly deserves it!
It’s a shame Gene Washington got injured. If we had him with Gilliam and Foreman then look out !
This had to be Bud Grant's best Vikings team of his career. The win over Dallas in the NFC title game kind of seals it. Dallas played in 7 of 10 NFC title games in the 70's and went 5 and 2 in them. This was their only loss at home. In fact I think it was the only time they lost one at home in their whole franchise history. Just goes to show how truly great the Dolphins were to handle them so easily in SB-7. The '73 Dolphins were better than the undefeated '72 team. The '72 team won their 3 post-season games by a collective 20 points. The '73 team won by a collective 50.
Love those 73 home uniforms
I STILL CHERISH MEMORIES OF FRANCES ASBURY TARKENTON, THE SCRAMBLER, AND 1 OF MY ALL-TIME FAVORITE RBs, CHUCK FOREMAN! '73 MUST HAVE BEEN 1-2 YEARS B4 THE POPULAR NAME- 'PURPLE PEOPLE EATERS'!
Miss the old Met Stadium, so much fun to watch football games there. The 70s Vikings were the original frozen tundra warriors.
From 1972 through 1975, there was'nt a weekly highlight show where Gilliam didn't appear 12:59
And from 1973 to 1976, the same could be said for Chuck Foreman. The Vikings didn't always have great talent surrounding Fran Tarkenton. But during this time frame, they had the goods. If Sammy White had just been three years older.....
Gillian was that great ;like Gene Washington wide receiver
Thanks , Randy really enjoyed This .
Packer #39 was pick 18 of the 1st round. Great effort! 13:45 -13:58
Watching football since 1969 , the Vikings had such good teams for so long , divisions , Nfc title championships, superbowls .I'm a Saints fan we got to the superbowl once and won, way it is in life and sports seems unfair
I'd been waiting for 4 years ,what seemed to be an eternity ( at least in the life of a 12 year old ) for the Vikings to get back in the Superbowl. Here they finally do it, and to the tune of Rainbows In The Endzone, about as perfect as life could possibly get. Here's the back breaker, and favorite play 22:52
I have been a Vikings fan ever since those days always love them and always hope one day they would win a Super Bowl I still hope for that maybe Kevin O’Connell will be the one to help deliver them a Lombardi trophy at long last
I like the music at around 2:30 when they're showing Foreman's runs against the Bears
i admit it. i short-sold these vikings. getting to 4 straight title games is an accomplishment- and it took some of the greatest teams in history (73 dolphins 74-75 steelers and 76 raiders) to keep them out...
Check out these men standing in attention !! Freeze it here , and notice where every players feet are. Flawless !! 1:03
Never trust an old man’s memory.
I read comments how playing outdoors in Minnesota was this huge viking advantage.
Over the last 30 years of playing indoors, the Vikings have the largest difference in home wins/road wins.
Yet, old men whine that their viqueens lost a huge advantage when they stopped playing their home games outdoors.
I love it.
7:57 Herman "Thunderfoot" Weaver upstages Garo Yepremian?
To me, Bill Brown defines the fullback - right up there with Jim Taylor and Tom Woodeshick from that era. Not a fancy runner, but dished out punishment and was tough to stop. Chuck Foreman was the best runner they'd had, at that point, IMO. He took their running game to a new level.
When Minnesota HC Bud Grrant coached for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the Canadian Football League he insisted his players practice standing on the sidelines in a straight line holding their helmets to instill pride and discipline. Grant continued the practice in Minnesota. Minnesota's Jim Marshall thought at first it was silly but as the season went on he came to realize that this tradition had a lot of merit to it.
I can’t remember what year it was but in the pro bowl I think it was like nine of the 11 starters on defense were Vikings I can’t believe there’s ever been a defense as good as there’s ever even today I truly believe if you could bring those guys back in their prime even the whole team the office if you can bring them back in their prime they would be very very competitive today this is a Jim mungai from Kennerdell Pennsylvania oh by the way it’s a judge Allen page our honor
That voice of pat summerall is amazing.
If anyone wants to correct me, the name of the show for these films was " Great Teams Great Years".
In those days the Vikings were a Jekyll-and-Hyde team: they'd always win their division and usually do well in the playoffs, yet would always play like a 6-8 team in the Super Bowl.
They were just too small to match up with the bigger, stronger, younger, and faster AFC teams of the early seventies.
How do you know it's cold outside? When Bud Grant is wearing long sleeves.
I would kill to get some of these games in HD, with modern production and cameras.
Has to be the greatest NFL Films segment on the Vikings 20:35
I looked this up just for that reason. They look so good here. Deep purple with those shining helmets. This game, beating the Cowboys in Dallas to go to the Superbowl may have been their finest hour. I always loved how NFL Films showcased this game. Perfect music and a stifling, dominant Vikings performance. The Vikings did have the misfortune of playing against some of the 1970s great teams. Dolphins, Steelers, Raiders and an underated Chiefs team. Everyone always talks about the Vikings defense. But their offensive line was just as good. Ed White, Mick Tingelhoff, Ron Yary, Grady Alderman. 10:45 is a great rundown of those players. Jeff Siemon and Wally Hilgenberg were top notch linebackers as well. Of all teams the Vikings moving indoors was and is one of the stupidest moves in all of sports. They took what made the Vikings special, their entire personality and flushed it all down the toilet. And then they committed the second stupidest moves in all of sports when right after the 1987 team showed such great progress they handed that progress to the Cowboys for Herschel Walker. The Cowboys then built a dynasty in the 1990s off of Vikings draft picks. And with just one of the many draft picks they got from the Vikings they drafted hall of famer Emmitt Smith. While Herschel Walker stunk up Vikings offense until disappearing three years later. They have never fully recovered except for the 1998 Vikes who went 15-1 before Gary Anderson handed the Falcons a spot in the Superbowl.
One has to wonder how a team with such a great defense in the 1970s and good offensive weaponry manages to roll over and play dead when the Super Bowls came a calling!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+RovingRoy The AFC had better talent in those days. It's as simple as that.
Out-coached in SB 4 and every score in SB 9 came off a bounce or was set up off of a bounce. I know the Vikings were heavily favored in SB 4, but I think underdogs in the other three.
snag66 their defense just smothered the Vikings in the Super Bowl.
snag66 their defense just smothered the Vikings in the Super Bowl.
Because they were partying and smoking crack the night before the super bowls.
When did Matt Blair show up in Minnesota he was their LAWRENCE TAYLOR???
Matt Blair block 🚫 field goal legend;; legendary purple people eater & Minnesota viking
@@lloydkline1518 Yes he was
@@dwightlove3704 ❤️ 1970s Minnesota viking especially 1975 Minnesota viking
@@lloydkline1518 Too bad he doesn't have a GOLD JACKET.
@@dwightlove3704 hail Mary Roger starback threw still breaks my heart 1975 today;; I hear Minnesota viking had the best record & still didn't play conference championship games at home 1973 :: silly rule
YES SIR 22:54 💥
Great defensive's wins against L-A and Cleveland in consecutive weeks 7 & 8.
i remember the monday night game vs the falcons and bob lee which was their first loss after opening the season 9-0.
on the winning TD throw by lee he should've been sacked but made a great play to get free and throw a deep one for the score.
And he also was qb when Vikings reached 1977 NFC title game, after Tarkenton got hurt. He also did some punting, if I remember right, in earlier stint with Vikes. His daughter is news anchor Jenna Lee.
@@purplesword3800 Lee threw it to "Cadillac" Eddie Ray, 44, who had replaced injured fullbacks, Art Malone and Harmon Wages.
@@purplesword3800 I'm 57 and I remember that play like it was yesterday!..I threw a baseball across the room and almost broke my mother's favorite vase..lol..
Their other loss during the 1973 season was at the hands of the Cincinnati Bengals, who walloped them 27-0. They would shut the Vikings out again in 1980.
I always liked how the Vikings wore two different purple jerseys in 1973. If you'll notice, for most of the season, they wore a uniform without any trim on the sleeves. It was simply a purple jersey with white numbers. But for the Bears game and the Redskins game, they wore their usual uniform with the stripes on the sleeves. I never knew the reason for this. But I liked it and always loved their uniform no matter which one they wore. And to my knowledge, this was the last (maybe only) season they wore that one with no stripes on the sleeves. Pretty cool.
The wore Purple Uniforms without the trim for warm weather games.
From 1969 through 1973, the Vikings had an alternate purple jersey without stripes for warm-weather games.
Ahhh, always wondered why that was !! I called it the " away home jerseys". They wore it against the Cowboys in the mid season 1974 game also in the 1969 game versus the Rams....both warm weather games just to name two. In the 73 playoff game , some players are wearing both versions of the purple jersey.
In 1974 just one purple jersey until the next major uniform change in 1996
Starting at 21: 50.......Love that old school NFL films music.
Foreman, Brown, Marinaro and Osborn, what a running back group.
Combined they probably have fewer children than AP :D
Mo Do Don't forget Oscar Reed
When FOOTBALL was FOOTBALL...
I agree it is not football anymore , player contact is mostly above the waist now , and check any play and nobody falls down on any given play anymore , and the ball carrier gets pushed out of bounds or falls to the ground himself , terrible and surprise no one get hurt any more (not that we want that ) whens the last time players jumped on the field and prayed on thier knees for a pulled groin ! That does happen anymore either !
❤️ /1960 1970s NFL football 🏈;; football 🏈 players too big & strong; NFL football season too way long etc etc
17:39 to 17:51. You're damn right!
The Vikings and a lot of other teams wearing home jerseys without stripes.
They wore jerseys with and without stripes
Plus the music
Just fantastic 23:13
Another old pro playing in his last game commits a massive blunder. This was as critical as Jackie Smith's drop in SB XIII 24:29
Between 1968 and 1978 the vikings dominated the central division. The lions in particular.
+purple sword You could tell that the Lions were frustrated, especially when they should have won a handful of those games ( they did start to win in 1974, though). The Lions lost several nailbiters in 70, 71, 72 and 74..
@@massvt3821 the NFC Central sucked in the 70's. The Vikes were a lock to win it basically every year. The Bears first started getting good in the late 70's but the Vikes were still the better team even in the late 70's when Tarkenton and the front four were aging
I think the Kansas city chief was Minnesota viking best to win a superbowl: they beaten Kansas city that season
Randy--the 76 highlights have already been posted anyway..
+MassVt What's the title of the video? I haven't been able to find anything on RUclips.
+Randy Fast --It's called "76 Vikings", by Allan Hutchen. He's got lots of NFL team highlights..
That was my Birthday!
JUST ONE BEFORE I DIE? 😆
Purple gang had a ferocious defensive front 4
They were at their peak in 1969...but were still good in 73.
Marinaro, , Foreman, Brown, Osborn, Reed... HUH...all 5 in 1 season?
Does anyone know what the name of the song at the end of this highlight film is?
Thanks!
+countvertigo1968 The song is called "The Pony Soldiers" and you can find it on the cd "The Power And The Glory: The Original Voices & Music From NFL Films".
Thanks,Randy! Been trying to find it and guess didn't stumble on when sifting through.
Love these Vids.My set is missing 72 as well.I guess 7-7 didn't stick around!!
Do you mean the end of the highlight film, or the end of the added-on Super Bowl video? The 1973 Vikings yearbook video ends with "Rainbows in the Endzone". The Super Bowl video ends with "Pony Soldiers".
If you check out Dave Volsky's page here on RUclips, you'll find every piece of NFLF music you can think of, and then some.
Continent of the Americas
I would buy boxed sets of these highlight films if they were available (so far only Super Bowls have been available) IF I knew I was getting these originals with the original soundtracks. These days, some idiots are always changing that to "modernize" things. GRRRRR!!!!!
And that would be the last Super Bowl(As of 2021) the Miami Dolphins would ever win defeating these Minnesota Vikings in Super Bowl VIII.
Game 4: When the Detroit Lions still played their home-games at Tiger Stadium.
Only went to one tiger stadium detroit lions games;; silverdome open 1975;
❤️ detroit tiger stadium
My ex wifes mom dated Chuck Foreman.
He was a phenomenal football player!!
Was he a nice guy?
Lucky ex wife Chuck Forman show her his invincible spin moves; chuck Forman my hero
somebody help me please---if this is the year that they lost SB 9 to Pitt,then this is the year AFTER losing SB8 to Miami--so this ISNT fran's 1st playoff games as the video said....and I believe they beat the rams to get to SB 9....OK,I'M NOT CONFUSED ANYMORE--THEY ACCIDENTILLY PUT the WRONG Super Bowl ATTACHED TO THE 73 SEASON!!
This is the 73 highlights, leading to SB 8 vs. Dolphins. Then at the end of the first video is an additional video covering SB 9 the following year. Fran's arm still decent then. Nice team with Gilliam.
After one mediocre season, the Vikings return as a NFL power, winning the NFC title after beating Washington and Dallas in the playoffs. The Super Bowl, however, was another story..
Is Minnesota ever going to win a super bowl before I leave this world? I'm 53. Lol
Hey, it could be worse. The Lions have never actually played in a super bowl...
The 🍇 and 🍌
Back on top after a disappointing 1972 season
No, wait... Grady Alderman and John Gilliam- they are the true Viking Gods!(Chuck Foreman as wing-man).
Would Fred Cox have chocked kicking a vital field goal?
In 1972 he missed a number of critical kicks that cost them dearly
@@WayneKeen Thank you, Wayne.
Mo, the answer is “YES,” fred would have “chocked.”
Who knows? But he certainly didn't choke when he inverted the Nerf football!!😁
Fwiw i think the Vikings woulda beaten the raiders if they met in superbowl 4. Lamonica woulda tried to throw deep alot and their style was more familiar than KC's power I.
Why did they play the NFC Championship in Dallas, when the Vikings had a better record than the Cowboys?
The following season (1974), the NFL instituted many telling rule changes: moving the goal posts to the back of the end zone, moving the hash marks inwards, and introducing "sudden death" overtime for regular season games. I'm pretty sure it was also when "home-field" advantage for the playoffs, based on W/L records was introduced.
@@robd2721 the home field in the playoffs started in 1975.
Mike: Indeed! I thought for (almost) certain it was '74; but from WikipediaMain article: 1974-75 NFL playoffsNote: Prior to the 1975 season, the home teams in the playoffs were decided based on a yearly rotation. Had the 1974 playoffs been seeded, the AFC divisional matchups would have been #3 Pittsburgh at #2 Miami and #4 wild card Buffalo at #1 Oakland; the NFC matchups would not have changed, although #1 Los Angeles would have had home field for the NFC championship game due to its head-to-head victory over #2 Minnesota in week 11.: Thanks!
Because back in 1973 the NFL playoffs used a rotational system which is why the game was played in Dallas despite Minnesota having the better record. The year prior Miami with a 14-0 record had to play in Pittsburgh despite the Steelers 11-3 record.
You know what? I think the Vikings should go back to their classic 70s uniforms. The 49ers did it and won a Super Bowl. So if the 49ers should go back to their heyday with classic uniforms, the Vikings should do the same.
These are NOT highlights of the 1973 season as advertised. it is the 1974 season. the NFL has been involved in a conspiracy to erase the greatest team and most dominant dynasty in football history from the NFL history, the Miami Dolphins Dynasty 1970-1974, and replace it with a team that the Dolphins, during the intersection of the 2 dynasties (1971-1973) annihilated 3 years in a row: the Pittsburgh Steelers. the dolphins beat the Steelers in those 3 years in every way one team can defeat another: in 1971, they beat Pittsburgh with 3 long bombs, Bob Griese to Paul Warfield (versus "the great" Mel Blount's coverage). in 1972 afc title game, they beat Pittsburgh with the single greatest running performance in NFL playoff history (in three rivers!). and in 1973, Miami beat Pittsburgh with defense, intercepting 6 passes of Bradshaw and Jefferson Street Joe Gilliam, 2 returned for touchdowns (the greatest strong safety, Dick Anderson grabbed 4 of those 4, returned to for TDs, and won Defensive player of the year, mainly based on that performance, a win which Miami didn't even need and a loss for the Steelers that lost them the central division title, made them the wild card, who were easily handled by Oakland, a week before Oakland was annihilated by Miami and 2 weeks before Miami annihilated the Minnesota Vikings in the single most dominant SB win in the history of that game. I am not now, nor have i ever been and Miami fan, even though grew up in miami and attended all their home games the entire 5 years of their dynasty. I was a Baltimore Colts fan from 1965, and hated MIami because they shut my colts out 4 games in a row.
Super bowls were frustrating. Bowl 4 01-11-70 lost to KC 23 to 7 then 09-20-70 only 8 months later beat them at home 27 to 10. Super bowl 9 01-12-75 lost to steelers 16 to 6 then on 10-04-76 they beat a better steelers team at home 17 to 6 in one of them most physical games you'll ever see.
Summerall says the Vikes won 19 and lost 3. they played 22 games? Preseason doesn't count
Before the Vikings got soft
Today's players would be scared to death of these men! I said men today's player's are spoiled rotten little baby's!
I love that era man...but the players of today are stronger, faster and pumped up crazy on steroids.
@@markmerzweiler909, Joe is just another delusional old man.
xb 
Vikings win.superbowl.2023.you.see.
They didn't