FILE – Minnesota Vikings’ head coach Bud Grant looks concerned as he watches his team lose to the Chicago Bears in an NFL football game in Chicago, Dec. 6, 1981.
“No single individual more defined the Minnesota Vikings than Bud Grant. A once-in-a-lifetime man, Bud will forever be synonymous with success, toughness, the North and the Vikings,” owners Zygi Wilf and Mark Wilf said in a joint statement.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) Bud Grant, the stoic and demanding Hall of Fame coach who took the Minnesota Vikings and their mighty Purple People Eaters defense to four Super Bowls in eight years and lost all of them, died Saturday. He was 95.
The Vikings announced Grant s death on social media.
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