The Minnesota Vikings First #1 Draft Choice And Our First Star Running Back #20 Tommy Mason.

1969 Vikings-Rams division playoff game. QB #11 Joe Kapp scrambling. #57 for the Rams is linebacker Doug Woodlief. #30 for the Vikings is fullback Bill Brown.

1968 Vikings - Rams. #41 Dave Osborn getting crunched by the Rams and #74 Merlin Olsen

LA Rams #75 DE Deacon Jones trying to sack Viking's Quarterback Joe Kapp. This game is the 1969 Divisional Playoff game won by the Vikings 23-20. In the background is Viking kicker #14 Fred Cox. #30 with a jacket on is running back Bill Brown.

Lineback Lonnie Warwick

MN Vikings Bud Grant 1927 - 2023.   Was head coach for the Vikings from 1967 - 1983 and again in 1985.  158 wins.  Elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1994. Three sport star at the University of MN (Football, Basketball and Baseball). Played in the NBA for the Minneapolis Lakers, Played in the NFL for the Eagles.  Played and coached in the CFL and won 4 Grey Cups.  A life well lived.  

Carl Eller at the Met against the Chicago Bears....sometime in the 70′s

This photo is from the Vikings first 1971 pre-season game between the New England Patriots and Minnesota Vikings. It was held at Memorial Stadium...home at that time to the Big Ten Minnesota Gophers. #41 Dave Osborn goes up and over. #73 is Viking tackle Ron Yary. At the bottom of the pile is #64 guard Milt Sunde. #53 is Viking center Mick Tingelhoff. Yary and Tingelhoff are in the Hall of Fame. #87 for the Vikings at the far left is tightend John Beasley.

Roy Winston

Leatherheads (2008)