Welcome to the Pro Football Hall of Fame, John Randle!
We found out this weekend that former Vikings defensive tackle John Randle will enter the Hall of Fame this year. That makes for a pretty amazing story for Randle.
John entered the league in 1990, signing with the Minnesota Vikings after not being drafted out of college. During his career with the Vikings, he would go on to have double-digit sacks in 8 different years. He finished his NFL career with 556 tackles, 137.5 sacks, and 1 interception.
One of his biggest rivalries while in the league was with current Vikings quarterback Brett Favre (then with the Green Bay Packers). Randle sacked Favre more than any other quarterback during his career. Favre once said of Randle “on artificial turf he’s unblockable.”
The following YouTube Video shows a commercial where John Randle had a miniature Brett Favre jersey made for a chicken so he could use it in his training.
The 1970s Minnesota Vikings owe much of their success to the Canadian Football League. General Manager Jim Finks came to the Vikings from Canada, he then hired Head Coach Bud Grant from the CFL, and brought Quarterback Joe Kapp from the Canadian Football League as well.
Brett Favre was in a Super Bowl Commercial during tonight’s game. It showed him winning the 2020 MVP after 29 seasons at age 50. It was pretty funny. Here’s a YouTube video of it:
Does this mean we can expect Brett back next year?
Hey Vikings fans! I have a new feature to share with you readers.
Most sports fans I know like to talk about their team to anyone who will listen. Well, I’m giving you an audience! If you’ll notice that in the left hand column of this blog, right under the ad for the “Football Gear” shop (which you’re all buying cool Viking stuff from, right?) there’s a new button that says “Write An Article”. If you click on that button it will take you to a form that you can write your own opinions to be featured as an article on this blog!
Want to gripe about a play that ruined a game? Write an article!
Want to share your opinions on which season you think was the greatest for the Vikings? Write an article!
Want to share your thoughts on how the Vikings were crazy to never start Gino Torretta? (Hey, I’m sure SOMEONE out there thinks that) Write an article!
If you’re already a blogger, don’t let that stop you. Write a guest article for The Viking Ship, but link back to your own blog. Maybe you’ll gain some new readers out of the deal.
There are some easy to follow rules that are listed at the top of the submission form. All of the articles have be be approved before they show up (to prevent flooding of the site with garbage posts, of course), but most of the time I’ll probably be able to get to the approval within a couple hours or so. Of course as the owner, editor, and author of the Viking Ship, I reserve the right to refuse any articles that I don’t want on my site, but let it be known that I’m usually pretty open to other people’s opinions on football.
He’s made that clear since the news came out that the New York Jets cut him after last season. He has made numerous comments about how he doesn’t think Favre is the answer in Minnesota, and after the NFC Championship game he completely ripped into Favre’s abilities because of the last minute interception.
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“I have never seen any quarterback much less, well he is going to be a Hall of Fame quarterback, make plays like that at a critical time,” Tarkenton said of Favre’s infamously reckless style of play. “He has done the same thing in the Giants game (a Packers loss in the 2007 NFC title game). He plays at home, has the better team and plays against Eli (Manning). He was a young kid right? And he throws the pick…and then he does what he did the other night which was just shameful because great quarterbacks, and he is a great quarterback, they don’t do that. You don’t see Peyton Manning do that.”
The problem with that is that he’s turning current fans against him. Fans that used to talk about him with the utmost respect.
Rick Alonzo from TwinCities.com recently posted some reader email he got concering Tarkenton. Let’s check a couple out:
I’m just curious if Francis is holding a personal vendetta against Brett Favre, or is he just an aged out jock angry because he could never accomplish what Favre has. What a jerk!
A writer on Bleacher report when into more detail in his article, bringing out some interesting points:
In his three trips to Super Sunday, Tarkenton completed 46 of 89 passes—barely 50 percent—for 489 yards. It gets worse. He threw for one TD pass and SIX interceptions. His cumulative passer rating? A ghoulish 43.7.
And he has the gall to call Brett Favre out for crumbling under pressure?
A couple days ago I showed you a 
