EXTENDED INTERVIEW: Looking back on the last Vikings Super Bowl in 1977

[@JRZEKE99]

I’ve been a Vikings fan since ‘68. I live and died with the Vikings!!! I was consumed by the team! I was sad after losing SB XI. I knew they were an aging team that would likely never get back. That era of the Minnesota Vikings meant so much to me.

[@vinceniederman]

I Bet U Were Knew That They Were Never Gonna Return To The Super Bowl After That!

[@bobma6342]

Why isn't Jim Marshall in the Pro Football Hall of Fame?

[@JRZEKE99]

@@bobma6342 Great question! It is truly a mystery as to why he is not in the HOF!

[@wilcox728]

I grew up a Vikings fan living in NJ. I loved those guys. Always will. Sure I wish they would have won a Superbowl. But I'll take the players over a championship. It was a special team, with special players, at a special time. I grew up a Vikings and RedSox fan. That wasn't always easy. But I feel so fortunate to have experienced it. I saw the Vikings in person for the first time in 1985 when my dad took me to Veterans Stadium to see the Eagles vs Vikings. If anyone remembers the Eagles took a 23-0 lead with about four minutes to go in the third quarter. I then witnessed one of the greatest comebacks in NFL history when the Vikings scored four late touchdowns to win 28-23. One of Bud Grant's last games after he came back from retirement to save the day from Les Steckel.

[@vikingjerome2438]

61yr Vikings fan they'll always be my heroes growing up till this day!💜

[@edpinkerton7947]

These men were the greatest generation of the NFL

[@aaadj7out]

The Vikes were sure good enuf to smoke my LA Rams those years...Chuck Foreman belongs in the hall!..

[@caseykubota]

Thank you Chuck Foremam YOU are still my HEREO!!!!!

[@oliverrye1266]

Greatest Minnesota Vikings Era of all time. Proven consistent winners from 68' to 78' but for the .500 record in 72'. The excitement of watching Vikings football during those years has never been equaled.

[@randydavis7940]

As a diehard Cowboys Fan, it's hard for even me to think as many great Hall of Fame players as the Vikings had in that Era they didn't win at least a couple of those Super Bowls. Players like Tarkenton, Eller, Paige, Stu Voight , Chuck Foreman and Mick Tinglehoff. and one the greatest coaches in NFL history Bud Grant whom I held in high regard as well as Tom Landry. And miss watching the Vikings play their home games in the winter time when it was snowing and the wind was blowing at old Metropolitan Stadium. Now that was Football that separated the Men from the Boys 👦 I'm 68 now but I was in my teens and twenties during that Great Minnesota Vikings Era!

[@bonanzatime]

The Great Chuck Foreman. I feel his pain

[@tonywright282]

I’m not a Vikings fan but the great Alan Page is on my all time defensive team right next to DT Merlin Olsen

[@bradgoldman5053]

I have a theory why they haven't been back, they don't play in the cold anymore with short sleeves and no heaters

[@RELopez-mk4ic]

What a beast of a running back. He took so much punishment during his career. If he could have played longer, he would be in the Hall of Fame.

[@jimmyfranklin3862]

Those 3 A.F.C team were all time Greats. And that decade belonged mostly to them

[@williamdietz5301]

I remember all four appearances clearly. When SuperXI came my thought was that this would be their last hurrah. When McNiel blocked Guys punt I was supercharged and thinking that a victory would happen in Viking fashion. It was dashed immediately.

[@depaola63]

💔 my favorite all time player 💪🌟 I’m now 61 and I cried with #44 📺👀

[@truthseeker7233]

Bud Grants Words Very Powerful What A Legend 💜💛🙏🏼 Thank You Mr Grant Skol Vikings For Life

[@susan7038]

Where is Jim Marshall?

[@ryannewazada2102]

The Vikings set the tone for winning during the 1970's under Coach Grant.

[@maxpuppy96]

Art Shell and Gene Upshaw blew Jim Marshall off the line of scrimmage, it's one reason why Marshall never got into the HOF.

[@ericwright3798]

Marshall also was nearly 40 years old. His peak was actually before the purple people eaters were even formed.

[@jayNicks10]

“It seemed like your offense never really got going” I think you’re confusing SB XI with SB IX.

[@tonywright282]

And I’ve written to the Pro Football Hall of Fame committee several times for several years now writing them to get DE Jim Marshall into the Hall, he deserves to be in there, 20 years 12 Pro Bowls

[@6400az]

He played in only 2 pro bowls.

[@tonywright282]

That’s not all true Mr. Tarkenton in Super Bowl IX you’re squad should have won that game, your Vikings were jobbed by the officials in the 3rd & 4th quarters, the Vikings should have won Super Bowl IX & the Bills should have won Super Bowl XXV

[@MegaSmarterthanyou]

That alan page tv thing was so annoying , too much feedback crap

[@elroythegreat1590]

Those were the days.

[@blackironpotrecords1600]

The great Viking teams of the 70s appeared in three of those super bowls primarily because of the great Chuck Foreman. Sadly the consistant lackadaisical Super Bowl performances are a reflection on coach Grant. Bud will alway be considered a great coach but at the super bowl level, the team deserved better and coach Grant just didn't have it.

[@76vike19]

Foreman wasn’t a slam dunk from the 1 yard line. He fumbled 9 times in 11 playoff games.

[@6400az]

I 'll take your word for it , but with the exception of one ( SB 9) those fumbles wernt from the 1 though. Through the 1976 season, Foreman averaged more td's than anyone in league history.

[@IAAP.]

That wasn't his point.

[@austinyates7132]

The vikes will not win a Super Bowl in my lifetime...

[@riobravo4454]

I’m 64 years old. I remember Krause and his ole style of tackling in the super bowls….. he was afraid to tackle Franco Harris.

[@6400az]

Not rerally. At the NFL level fear is not an option. He tackled Csonka numerous times in the previous SB.

[@76vike19]

Yeah Krause got trucked every time he made a tackle. Definitely not his game, Csonka talked about how he loved seeing Krause try to tackle him. Essentially he said, he might bring me down but it’ll be five yards after his initial contact.

[@IAAP.]

​@@6400az he got run over by Czonka several times.

[@6400az]

​@@IAAP. I know he did, he dragged him down, but never the less brought him down. He had over 12 solo tackles in that game.

[@OscarHernandez-dm7hp]

The Vikings where a good team in the 70s but they lost to better teams

[@6400az]

Well duuuuuuh. That's like saying the Titanic sank because it filled up with water.....

[@d0nKsTaH]

Bud Grant! Old Stone Face

[@6400az]

The question as to WHY the lousy performance in all four games remains to be answered. Shavers tries to ask it in a Minnesota nice type of way, but it's side swiped by all. There HAS to be a reason why their play was so awful !!

[@tonywright282]

Yeah Super Bowl IX the Vikings were jobbed those officials duped them over in the second half

[@patrickfurlong9169]

To the Vikings credit those Raider teams of that era were loaded with roid heads. So we're the Steelers.

[@moebees3060]

The technical quality of this video is amazingly bad considering it is put out by a television station.