Minnesota Vikings • 1975 Highlights

[@mikedr1549]

Takes me back! I still can't believe those teams from the 70's didn't win a Super Bowl - but boy those were some great times watching those teams play.

[@BruceWayne-ri4wr]

You're exactly right they should have been the best team of that era their defense in my pain is the greatest defensive NFL history Go look up some of the numbers they put up during that 10-year stretch from 68 to 70 7 My God they was number one against the run in the past like three or four different times they gave up only like 110 points in a 14 game schedule one time I mean that was just an overpowering defense I don't know what would happen in those super bowls why they wouldn't be able to stop the run and they would make excuses the announcers all their small on defense well they had no trouble stopping the run during the regular season in the playoffs they were always great against the run it's just four games they're being judged by four games for hundreds of games were they dominated everybody

[@markseslstorytellerchannel3418]

They should have won the first Super Bowl against the Chiefs whom they crushed the next season without Joe Kapp. The other Super Bowls they lost to better teams. I remember SI writing an article saying the computer said the Miami Dolphins should easily handle the Vikings and the computer was right. Then they played the greatest pound-for-pound team in NFL history - The Steelers and the Vikings were very old against the Raiders. Poor Jim Marshall at 225 pounds was lined up against 270-pound Gene Upshaw.

[@davidnelson6874]

Chuck Foreman was so much fun to watch. Even now he amazes me. There’s never been a running back quite like him. He was one in a million.

[@JaxonSmithers]

Chargin Chuck.

[@loydbruceleewouldbescary2637]

Spin move chuck forman

[@markmerzweiler909]

One reason why the Vikings were so good for long...so many of their stars stayed healthy for over 10 years.

[@lloydkline1518]

❤️ purple people eater defense of 1960s/1970s: plus Fran tarkenton; bud grant Mr Freeze; & or iceman

[@UncleJavi]

Watching this season made me a Vikings fan for life. I learned about this dynamic team by watching Monday night football highlights with Howard Cosell and tv specials.

[@JellyBean2144]

Thank you for posting this videos. I grew up in Bloomington, MN in the 70s. Great memories. SKOL Vikings!!

[@cfapps7865]

+JellyBean2144 So did I.

[@cfapps7865]

***** During the downpour when they delayed the concert?

[@lloydkline3265]

1975 Vikings better than 1976 Vikings team

[@steven2212]

As did i! One block from the Met. Ended up graduating from Lakeville high. Fantastic memories. What the hell happened to Minnesota?

[@lloydkline1518]

@@lloydkline3265 got my vote

[@raddmann99]

One thing I loved about those Viking defenses is how after a turnover they’d lateral it to another guy right before they were about to be tackled. They practiced it a lot and scored a lot of tds.

[@jlarsen2877]

Randy Fast, THANK YOU! Old Fan here, still have season Tix.... I LOVE watching your posts. All the best to you.

[@thereilneid2868]

Great video. Growing up in Detroit, life long Lions fan BUT the Vikings in the 70's were just AWESOME to me & my friends. They beat the Lions like 20 of 21 games at some point. I always rooted for them when not playing the Lions & especially in the Superbowl. GREAT teams.

[@marshalmellow3058]

I was there loving every second

[@creativekloud9223]

You were at this back then? That’s amazing

[@JaxonSmithers]

@@creativekloud9223 He was a young buck in those days I'm sure.

[@loydbruceleewouldbescary2637]

Lucky , ❤️ purple people eater, minnosoda viking

[@michaelleroy9281]

The game at Washington was a tough loss

[@JayDogTitan]

Say what you want about Tarkenton but he was fun to watch, My all time favorite QB.

[@lloydkline3265]

Mr Minnesota Viking, him and coach bud Grant

[@lloydkline6946]

❤ 1975 Minnesota viking team, ❤ ron yary, ed white, mick tilgelhoff, hall of fame offensive line

[@MegaSmarterthanyou]

Tarkenton was also a tremendous "ball-handler" just amazing

[@kmjr2400]

He was a great quarterback. Roger Staubach is still my favorite, Fran was my second favorite in the 70s , Stabler was third.

[@lloydkline1518]

@@kmjr2400 in the battle with Oakland raiders football vs Pittsburgh steelers football 1972 playoffs Kenny Stabler was a backup quarterback

[@steven2212]

Thank you. The Vikings of this decade were just amazing. Super bowls aside, we always knew they were going to win the conference. So many HOF greats from these teams. The old Met was a dump, but it was our 12th man and we appreciated that fact. Bud Grant was one of the greatest coaches to ever walk the sidelines.

[@rashard4]

Grant was overrated; stubborn ol bull. They drafted well and their players were top notch. Grant was too old school sometimes.

[@steven2212]

And...too nice. Had fantastic players in a division that was pretty weak during most of his tenure. But still, playing in that dump called Met stadium had to suck, ridiculously cold in winter. He let his QB's run the offense, primarily Tark. Defense? They were off the charts talented.

[@depaola63]

#44 ..Chuck Foreman! My all~time favorite player! 1975, was his BEST season ever! He almost got an unheard of " Triple Crown"....NO one still has ever got! Most TD's in a season ( 2nd with 22! OJ had 23! ..2nd by only 6 yrds! in rushing! ..1,070 and 1st with 73 catches!) He had a fantastic 6 years and was also 73' NFL rookie of the year! He should be in the HOF! ( over 8, 000 rushing yds! 69 TD's! and over 5,000 yds receiving!

[@hoss73ford]

He was one of the greats!

[@stevenervo2438]

if not for getting hit in the eye with a snowball from the buffalo fan in final game that yr, he would have stayed in the game and gotten those Xtra rushing yds needed to win triple crown. I remember watching this game. Jim Otis of St Louis ended up winning rushing title in their game the next day by 6 yds. fate

[@depaola63]

Chuck Foreman is still my favorite player ever! He is the perfect example at his position of the not so over the top #'s, but this 75' season he almost made history in just his 3rd year! Plus HE was THE biggest reason the " Vikes" GOT to ...** 2 out of 3 SUPER BOWLS in HIS first 3 seasons! He belongs in" The Hall'......& like I said, I hated the teams, but Cliff Branch of Oakland ( come ON now!..3 RINGS he has too!! + the #'s!) & CLUTCH ASS' Mr. Drew Pearson of Dallas!!.....Hail Mary' ...game, this season....I know!!!!....But I RESPECT GREATNESS!! I didn't know Buddy Ryan was the D' coach of this team?!! .. ( Pat says it here)..also fred cox!!! HE KILLED THE VIKES Can't even make an extra point from 10 yards??! Many times!! I read somewhere he was Bud Grant's hunt'n & fishing pal!! He was terrible!! He kicked toooooooo low!! The Redskin game here, 31-30 loss..he SHOULD have WON it! Great days to remember still..**..God bless' I turned 54 years young on May 18..I remember these now classic's!!

[@depaola63]

That was fucked! I guess #44 is as good as you can be and NOT get in the HOF! I bet if the Vikings would have WON , one of the 3 Chuck Foreman was in ( 3 in his first 4 seasons!) He may be in The Hall"...Great games in those days in the Met"...They should have never left when they did! I know Big $ New Homes, but " indoors?" NO! That weather was there big + ask the players from the LA Rams in those NFC Title games!

[@Deucealive75]

I know for sure those rushing stats are not correct. He only had 3 1,000 yard seasons.

[@Bigchet1223]

Vikings were a pretty old team in 1975. A lot of old vets.

[@cfapps7865]

Thanks for the videos. I earned my first paycheck at Met Stadium .

[@lloydkline6946]

Really, ❤ purple people eaters Minnesota viking

[@lloydkline1518]

I went to Shea stadium

[@craigwalrath3338]

Tarkenton was running the west coast offense long before Bill Walsh. In fact he's the father of modern offensive football as the first mobile QB who threw to his backs and ran the spread formation.

[@chuckyufarley2999]

Fran called the plays, but Jerry Burns had a lot to do with creating that offense.

[@lloydkline1518]

My favorite Minnesota viking ; 1975 team ❤️ purple people eater

[@vikeirishman]

Yeah thanks for posting these - Chuck was the man - I got to meet him a couple of years ago at Viking training camp and stood and talk to him for 20 minutes and got pic's with him and the family - great guy - said knee or knee's were doing fine - i don't remember if both knee's were bad or the one

[@DrSkull1939]

If I am not mistaken, that road game against the packer was the game Tarkenton became the all time leading passer over Johnny Unitas. I remember that game being played in October 1975. I had to go to church. Ok, forced to go lol

[@jasintosamora1103]

The 75 vikes were awesome and would have gone to superbowl 10 if the officials not favored Dallas who in the 70s were referred as America's team. But be that as it may as a lifelong viking fan I would like to know if I'm the only one that feels that number 22 the great Paul Krause jersey should be retired. He played his heart out his entire career. He stiii is the leader with most ints in a career with 81. There have been many good defensive backs but his record still stands. I think that is highly disrespectful to the greatest fs of alltime. It's starting to piss me off. It's time to give honor to whom honor is due it's time to give the man his propers. His record has stood for decades it didn't happen yesterday. At that time a season was 14 games. One day his record will be broken but to me he will always be the best. He sounds like a good christain man. They were reluctant to put him in the hof... Idiots

[@michaelleroy9281]

Chuck Foreman was a beast

[@CelticBadBoyPoet7]

Foreman For The...Fame in Canton!

[@craigwalrath3338]

The five years Tarkenton spent in New York cost the Vikings several Super Bowls. The defense was peaking then and was aging when he came back.

[@lloydkline1518]

Minnesota viking got Ron yary for the Fran tarkenton trade ;; original Fran tarkenton trade ; Minnesota viking wasn't good at drafting offensive linemen & offensive skin players especially low round NFL draft; Dallas Tom Landry was great at that

[@6400az]

Ehh, possibly but don't bet you're life on it . Althought you are correct in your assessment about the aging defense In his 3 SB games Tarkenton was nothing short of horrid,as he was in the Hail Mary Game against Dallas. From everything I Ve read, Tarkenton didn't exactly endear himself to his teammates. I know he was great and had all those records, but I think Joe Kapp was a better fit and would've won a few SBs with him instead.

[@victorcastillo-dx9vh]

The metropolitan stadium was the real tundra. I never understood why the players' benches were in the same sideline

[@troykester838]

i love that music!

[@GGE47]

A missed extra point kept this game from going into overtime. Skins won 31-30.It would have been 4th OT game of the season for Redskins.

[@6400az]

And two missed fg as well . He was terrible

[@richpelka6797]

Never forget old number 10 still my favorite Viking player

[@lloydkline1518]

❤️ Fran tarkenton Minnesota viking talking viking football; Fran tarkenton very good business man too

[@edcarter4779]

Summerall says that their 10 game win streak was a club record. Obviously incorrect: they won 12 straight in 1969.

[@Mryrhodesian]

Vikings won 10 straight from start of season. In 1969 they lost season opener then 12 straight before losing Finale.

[@massvt3821]

THey also opend the 1973 season with 10 straight wins...

[@lloydkline3265]

Really, I did not know thst

[@michaelleroy9281]

That 12 game streak was the longest in the NFL in 35 years up to that time

[@rogergriffith212]

Great music MLB this week in baseball 70s and 80s

[@michaelleroy9281]

The Vikings played at brand new Superdome and Silverdome opened that year

[@lloydkline1518]

I live in metro Detroit! :: Pontiac silver dome open 1975 Detroit lions

[@johnclark6577]

Imagine if they had fantasy football back then. Him and Terry Metcalfe would have been beasts.....even more so.

[@jonprude2557]

And '75 OJ, too... Holy sh...t! Lydell Mitchell was bad ass, as well!

[@thereilneid2868]

@@jonprude2557 Jon Prude great points on Mitchell. Larry Brown on Wash was also a beast & don't forget about Silver Montgomery on Phil.

[@alwaysgreatusa223]

Tarkenton was the first mobile quarterback -- something that is so common now, that a mostly immobile quarterback like Kirk Cousins is the exception, rather than the rule.

[@michaelleroy9281]

Like that 70s NFL films music

[@russellseilhamer4552]

No question in my mind Chuck Foreman is a HOFer. And Cliff Branch.....And Harold Jackson..... And the greatest cowboy sackmaster of them all... Harvey Martin. There’s no respect for the history of this game. The crazy thing is that all these guys played together for over a decade with few changes in personnel. Trading Alan Page to Chicago after the 77 season was a huge mistake. Page had 4 really good years in a Bears uniform and was a mentor to guys like Mike Singletary and Gary Fencik. 1978 was also the year vikes assistant Neill Armstrong became HC and the other vikes assistant Buddy Ryan became Bears DC. Who is the Bears GM? The great Jim Finks who took two franchises; the Vikings and Bears to super bowls. Vikes GM from 1967 to 73 and Bears GM from 74 to 83

[@rockylombardo6978]

Sir Francis Tarkenton, legend

[@dennismanley9891]

The original West coast offense. Thanks Jerry Burns

[@robertbalogh-robinson10]

This was probably the best team the Vikings had in that stretch. They got unlucky against the Cowboys. And the iceball incident against the Bills probably cost them Foreman's record and the Cowboy game.

[@shannonpaplow7754]

That's the Water COOLER the pissed in "COACH".

[@Deucealive75]

This was the year they had the #1 ranked defense in the NFL.

[@lloydkline3265]

Really love Minnesota Vikings offensive line ed white, mick tingelhoff and Ron yary, etc etc

[@lloydkline6946]

❤ Purple people eaters ❤ ron yary & ed white& ,mick tilgelhoff

[@lloydkline1518]

Purple people eaters Minnesota viking

[@lloydkline1518]

1975 Minnesota viking; 11 /0 start: they seem unbeatable

[@howardcosell2022]

@@lloydkline1518 They played 3-1 Detroit in week 5, the only team with a winning record during their 11-0 start. The Lions later beat the Vikings and finished 7-7 for the season

[@RovingRoy]

And to think had the Vikings beat Dallas in the playoffs, won the NFC Championship Game, and gone to the Super Bowl against Pittsburgh for the second straight year....They would've been in the movie Black Sunday!

[@eddiekulp1241]

Vikings just blew every chance they had for greatness. My Saints are nothing compared to all those great Viking teams yet we have a Super Bowl championship

[@chuckyufarley2999]

I was 10 years old, in 5th grade, the last time they played in the Super Bowl. At that time the Bucs had just lost every game of their expansion season, and the Saints were by far the losingest team in the league. If you would have told me then that I'd be damn near 60 and the Bucs and Saints would have 3 Lombardi trophies between them and the Vikings would still not have even played in another Super Bowl, I'd have quit watching football then and saved myself DECADES of disappointment.

[@chrisrose6014]

I've always felt this team was the best of the '68-'77 era. And I believe they could've topped Pittsburgh in the SB, but if not for that one miraculous play and lack of an offensive pass interference call!!!

[@6400az]

No way. The 1969 team was by far the better team . Number 1 in both offense and defense to start. The 75 team was good, but many of the key players where past their prime.

[@chuckyufarley2999]

Absolutely. All these years later what kills me is their win-loss record during the regular season against the teams that beat them in those Super Bowls. Those were some good teams, no doubt, but not the juggernauts they've always been made out to be. You always hear people say the Vikings were good, but just ran into better teams in the SB. Bullshit. They routinely beat those teams the year before or after playing them in the SB. Their SB downfall was poor game planning and Fran's play calling in the 3 he played in.

[@aaadj7out]

NFL recently came up with top 10 QBs of all time...Tarkenton should have been on that..

[@JaxonSmithers]

Vikes peaked with Grant in 75 and 76.

[@MGAF688]

This team belongs up there with the 1998 (Atl) and 2009 (NO) teams as the most-talented/most-heralded Vikings teams not to appear in a Super Bowl. The 1977 (Dal), 1987 (Was) and 2000 (NYG) teams would come within a win of the Super Bowl but as underdogs in the NFC Championship Game. Now the 2017 (Phi) squad takes a turn against the only current NFC East team the Vikes have not faced previously in an NFC Championship Game. 1969 over Cle, 1973 over Dal, 1974 over LA, 1976 over LA.

[@BankTyper1210]

The 2000 Vikings were actually a slight favorite over the Giants, if I remember correctly.

[@chuckyufarley2999]

The '87 defense was probably the best out of all their post-70s title contenders. The only reason they looked like underdogs, on paper, was because of the 0-fer performance of their replacement team, which tanked their record and put them on the road for every playoff game. Nobody in that era did what they did to San Francisco, at Candlestick, in the play-offs or otherwise. Imagine what they might have done in the late 80s had they drafted Marcus Allen instead of Darrin Nelson in '82. Probably a lot fewer road playoff games, and the Herschel Walker trade more than likely never happens.

[@michaelleroy9281]

Great season until the Hail Mary game

[@lloydkline6946]

Minnesota viking last great football team , purple people eaters

[@generationll]

The first part of the film with them losing to Dallas is missing

[@lloydkline3265]

Love the 1975 Minnesota Vikings better than .Minnesota Vikings 1976

[@michaelleroy9281]

The weather was really bad in the season finale at Buffalo

[@jonprude2557]

The '75 Vikes are cool...

[@lloydkline1518]

Hail Mary pass of Roger starback broke 💔 my ❤️ heart ; brilliant pass & catch

[@earllutz2663]

In the beginning you didn't mention any of the players so I turned it off.

[@diosseacontigo8822]

The old metropolitan was THEE Vikings stadium. Outdoors, real grass and a home field advantage. A lot less stress on the players bodies, AND the taxpayers income. Vikings play OUTSIDE!

[@edwardjohnson9841]

yeah, that frozen solid slab was SOOO much easier on them!! lol

[@purplesword3800]

People talk about how "badly" outplayed they were in playoffs vs dallas yet they basically held them to 10pts untill the hail mary with 30 seconds left.

[@edwardjohnson9841]

nobody talks about ANYTHING except the hail mary!!!

[@rockylombardo6978]

Why isn't Jim Marshall in the Hall of Fame

[@alwaysgreatusa223]

The Vikings used to dominate the NFC North in the early to mid-70s, the way the Patriots dominated the AFC East in the Tom Brady era. Of course, the Patriots were a lot more successful in winning Superbowls. The Vikings always seemed like a Champion-caliber team during the season, but they always choked in the Superbowl for some reason -- just like the Bills in the 90s.

[@sjhanson1690]

Oh if only…

[@lloydkline6946]

❤ purple people eaters Minnesota viking

[@markmerzweiler832]

You have to question the intelligence of a team which trades a safety who makes twelve interceptions their rookie year.

[@howardcosell2022]

Night Train Lane had 14 interceptions for LA and was shipped off to Chicago

[@purplesword4394]

A great year but a horrible ending.

[@fwb41]

Would you really have wanted to see the Vikings in 4 straight Super Bowls...only to probably lose them all? I don't think Fran the Man could have taken it.

[@smoothoperator7023]

Ditto ‘98, 09 & ‘17..... same ol’ Vikings..🤯

[@che1925]

Fred Cox never had a leg for long distance kicks. Interesting how in these days many of these teams maintained the same kickers for years.

[@bitterangrydrunk]

+William Elliott Fred Cox was as representative as any for the utter insanity that existed over "soccer-style" kickers. In the 1970s NFL coaches (even the greats like Bud Grant) seriously believed that straight ahead was the proper way, the only way, to place-kick. Cox, for his career, was something like 2-for-24 or 2-for-26 from outside the 50. And he was one of the better kickers of that era! When the Vikings lost to the Skins, Cox got death threats because he missed an early extra point (the margin of defeat) and a game-ending (long) FG. Sort of. Idiot Viking fans looked in the local phone book and found a Fred Cox. Wasn't the kicker. That Fred Cox worked for the railroad. It was all over the local news the week after the Skins game. F*cked up as things are now, things were fairly f*cked up back then, too.

[@che1925]

bitterangrydrunk that is pure crazy. I can laugh but that says something about us and our obsession with sports. I have some of those games on dvd. His leg had nothing in it. He kicked the football like a kickball it was unnerving to watch.

[@depaola63]

+William Elliott ...Fred Cox sucked cox!

[@che1925]

Nicky Depaola LMFAO

[@massvt3821]

+William Elliott Jim Baaken for the Cardinals also comes to mind. By the mid-70s, the straight-ahead kicker was on the endangered species list. ( I can think of Cox, Mosely, Baaken, Jim Turner?, Errol Mann, and that's a bout it.)..

[@toddgilleylen3438]

Sorry Vikings. You lost your team when you went to a Vikings to play in your advantage in your playoff. Oma Vikings fan since the 70's but will never see them win a Superbowl.

[@markhenderson4564]

How bout dim Vikings

[@michaelleroy9281]

They beat Joe Namath and the Jets at home

[@ric2097]

The one guy I would of loved to see play on that D-line with Eller , Page and Marshall was Jerry Sherk...he was better then the other D-tackles the vikes. had...having a defensive P .O .Y season in 1976...guy had some great years on some very bad Browns teams of the '70s