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Burnsie was 94. I m gonna miss him, Vikings Hall of Fame coach Bud Grant said in a statement.
Born Jan. 24, 1927 in Detroit, Burns played quarterback at the University of Michigan and then spent the next four decades in coaching before retiring as Vikings head coach in 1991. His 24-year stint with the Purple, which included 18 seasons as one of the league s most innovative offensive coordinators of his day, earned Burns a place in the Vikings Ring of Honor. He was a brilliant, brilliant coach, Vikings Hall of Fame quarterback Fran Tarkenton said in a statement. He enabled me to be better than I was. We worked together so closely for so long and nobody ever had more fun doing it. We were laughing, yelling and screaming, but never had a cross word to each other.
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Don Coryell arrived with a cutting-edge blueprint in the late 1970s, but his pass-happy teams fell short in January. Dan Fouts five INTs doomed the 79 Chargers against a depleted Oilers team; the Bolts regrouped to deploy a then-unprecedented three 1,000-yard receivers (John Jefferson, Kellen Winslow, Charlie Joiner) in 1980. The Raiders then secured a Super Bowl XV berth in San Diego. Air Coryell s peak and low point occurred in January 1982. After an epic OT win in Miami, the Chargers played in the NFL s coldest game (wind chill: minus-59 degrees). The Bengals Freezer Bowl rout nixed a tantalizing Coryell-Bill Walsh Super Bowl. San Diego s run ended soon after.
What is the worst loss in Vikings history?
The Minnesota Vikings missed the playoffs this year after making it last year.
The fans right now are not just wishing their team was still in the playoffs, but also looking back at some playoff moments in franchise history (mostly bad).
No doubt the Vikings have had many heartbreaking playoff losses in their history, including the 1998 and 2009 NFC Championship Games.
The question though is, which was the worst in franchise history?
You can make a great case for the Drew Pearson pushoff on the Hail Mary in 1975, the four Super Bowl losses, or the two title game losses mentioned above.
Sansevere: The Vikings inability to handle success isn’t a new phenomenon
Sansevere writes a weekly Nano-Column for us each week 2 minutes read
The Nano Column -(You can read it while at a stoplight, during a commercial break or when dropping a deuce.)
The Vikings are the NFL version of a tease. They get you all excited, only to disappoint.
They’re also a franchise that cannot handle success.
Since their inception, the Vikings have found ways to stab a shiv into everything good that comes their way.
It started with their very first game in 1961 when they beat the storied Chicago Bears. Fans were stoked … and then the Vikings lost 11 of their next 13 games.