The Envelope, Puhleze...
The answers to the trivia questions are:
1.
Sports Headliners
couldn’t resist this one. On Monday night quarterback Tarvaris
Jackson and running back Adrian Peterson banged knees so hard
on a handoff both had to leave the game.
2. At the beginning of the 50th
season the Golden Gophers (honest) had sent the Vikings the most
players, 28. Southern California was next at 26.
3. Vikings guard Randall McDaniel
was selected 11 times for the Pro Bowl.
4.
Joe Kapp
left the Canadian Football League to become coach Bud Grant’s
quarterback and he led the Vikings to the 1970 Super Bowl.
5.
Randy Moss
uttered those infamous words, “I play when I want to play,” during his
first tour of duty with the Vikings. Guess he doesn’t want to play this
year because he’s been with three teams, the Patriots, Vikings and
Titans.
6.
Tommy Kramer was the highest-rated quarterback in the NFL for the 1986 season and
was named Comeback Player of the Year. He threw for 490 yards in a game
against Washington.
7.
Joe Senser’s local sports bars have kept the former Vikings tight end’s name in
front of the public for years.
8. In 1962 the Vikings played an
exhibition game at Parade Stadium and in 1969 played a regular season
game at Memorial Stadium.
9.
Leslie Frazier started the football program at Trinity College (Illinois) in 1988 and
was head coach there through the 1996 season.
10.
Adrian Peterson led the NFL in rushing in 2008, his second season in the league.
11. Last year’s regular season record was
12-4, the franchise’s best record of the decade. Sounds pretty sweet
compared with this year’s 5-8 record with three games to play.
12.
Fran Tarkenton played college football at the University of Georgia and was a third round
draft choice of the Vikings in 1961.
13.
Robert Smith, who rates with the best Vikings running backs ever, is an in-studio
college football analyst for ESPN.
14.
Sid Hartman, the local newspaper columnist and radio personality, met Bud Grant
back in the 1940s and was Grant’s presenter at his Hall of Fame
induction in Canton, Ohio in 1994.
15.
Fred Cox,
with 1,365 points, is the all-time leading scorer for the Vikings and
Cris Carter, with 670, ranks second.
16.
Brett Favre was a 1991 second round draft choice of Atlanta and was with the
Falcons for one season.
17. The Vikings defeated Tampa Bay, 17-10,
in their first regular season game ever played at the Metrodome.
18.
Bill Brown, a bow-legged, violent runner, was known as “Boom Boom” and played for
the Vikings from 1962-1974.
19. The Vikings lost in Super Bowl IX to
Pittsburgh by a score of 16-6, their closest loss in four Super Bowl
defeats.
20.
Jerry Burns, Vikings head coach from 1986-1991, was a look-a-like for the late
Burgess Meredith who had a long career film including the “Rocky”
movies.
21.
Defensive tackle Pat Williams has a passion for automobiles including customizing cars.
22. The Vikings lost to Tampa Bay, 27-24,
for their only loss during their 15-1 regular season in 1998.
23. Vikings executive Mike Lynn was
the franchise’s boss for years including in 1989 when the
Vikings sent five players and future draft picks to Dallas for
Herschel Walker and also received draft choices as part of
the deal, the biggest in NFL history.
24. Minneapolis-born Marc Trestman,
who played college football with Tony Dungy at Minnesota and now
coaches in Canada, tried twice to make the Vikings roster as a defensive
back before deciding to attend law school at the University of Miami.
25.
Pete Bercich, who played for the Vikings from 1995-2000, provides game analysis on
the radio with play-by-play man Paul Allen.
