The Minnesota Vikings of the 1970s were among the greatest football teams ever assembled. Entering 1974, Bud Grant’s teams had reached two Super Bowls, but lost them both. The good times don’t last forever. It’s time to cash in.
Written and directed by Jon Bois
Written and produced by Alex Rubenstein
Rights specialist Lindley Sico
Secret Base executive producers Will Buikema and Jon Bois
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Less than 2 minutes in and already a deep philosophical question. Does the cop have jurisdiction?
14:00 must be the first and possibly only time an accidental onside kick succeeded
I was born in 80, so I missed out on all the Super Bowls, but in my 43 years, I've seen some incredible seasons. Like the strike shortened 1987 season where the Vikes got ol Joey Mountains benched in the divisional round, only to have a win quite literally slip through the fingers of Darrin Nelson at the end of the NFC Championship game, or the 1994 season where Cris Carter set a then record 122 catches behind MVP worthy campaign from Warren Moon near the end of his career, then he spent the 95 season being every bit as productive with another 122 catches, or the magical 1998 season when the Vikings won 15 games led by Randall Cunningham and the greatest receiver of all time, in his rookie year no less, Randy Moss ony to fall in the Championship game again, thanks to Gary Anderson's first missed field goal in two years. I had front row seats to Brett Favre's first game winning comeback as a Viking in 2009 and also to the last one of his HoF career when he led two TD drives in the last two minutes to send it to overtime against the Cardinals before Adrian Peterson but the game to bed early in the extra quarter. I sat through -9° temps when the Vikings played their last outdoor playoff game, at the Gophers TCF Bank Stadium, losing to the Seahawks when Blair Walsh shanked a 27 yard kick wide left because his holder mishandled the ball leaving the laces facing onward. I got to see the Minneapolis Miracle from my friend's living room in Tallahassee and I was witness to the greatest catch ever made, Justin Jefferson's one-handed 4th & 18 takeaway from a Bills defender to help the Vikings win in a really tough Buffalo stadium against a really tough Buffalo team. It's been a helluva ride, I only wish my dad had lived to see them finally win the most important game of each season.
This content is so wonderful. As a person who works in data your data visualization is truly the best it can be.
I know I know but, those ads really break up the flow of the video
wohooooo!
I know no one probably cares, but to this day I still believe Super XI should have been the Vikings vs. The Patriots
Maybe that give the Vikings their 1st super bowl.
Though I never did realize before that had those Super Bowls gone the other way, we'd be talking about the Minnesota Vikings being the NFL's first dynasty.
Can't wait until they get to "The Boat"
Dolphins were just too good in Super Bowl VIII. If they hadn't lost an early season game in Oakland that had to be moved to Stanford due to a conflict with the A's, many Dolphin players have said they may have gone undefeated AGAIN in 1973. Imagine that? Two 17-0's in a row? The ones that sting are IX and XI.
I wish I could give these more then one thumbs up. These rock, thank you. Almost makes me wanna switch teams to the vikings… Almost. 😉
Loving this series! If you guys ever cover another team like this I'd love if you could do the Chargers!
Fran Tarkenton's Vikings weren't my Vikings. They were my father's Vikings. The first two episodes of The History of the Minnesota Vikings have been a joy to watch. I've known the 0-4 SB record since I was a kid, but I didn't think it would start to hurt until I got to the '90s.
I was wrong. It's starting to hurt watching the Vikings from before I was born rise to such heights of greatness only to never reach the summit.
Great series, but wow it hurts.
As a football fan, this pains me. As a packers fan, this brings me great joy
R.I.P. Francis Monkman. The music for these videos is absolutely chilling.
This video is so bittersweet as a Vikings fan.
My fave story of Fran is how he made millions of dollars when he invested money in a little company known as….Apple!
Also if you guys ever do a hockey team, I'd love to see one on Buffalo or Vancouver. Thanks for the job well done guys.
I know it was different stages and the Vikings never won but that Steelers match up vs them in SB 9 must have felt like two titans passing a baton.
I'm a diehard Packers fan and even I'm upset about that faux Hail Mary
Ok
He pushed off
Was it common in the 1970s for fans to just bring entire bottles of liquor into the stadium?
These are the best videos on YouTube
I hate the Steelers so much
I love (equivocal synth music)
“An insurmountable lead of 28-3” never fails to make me laugh. “Insurmountable lead of 28-3” falcons fans can never escape lmao.
Washington was still known as the Redskins back in the 70s. No need for the narrators to sidestep around that – it's just a historical fact.
The Alan Page twist in this video is an INCREDIBLE catch by the SB team, I've seen people talk about that play 100 times and NO ONE EVER CAUGHT THAT!?
Me listening to the Oakland roster: Oh Ray Guy, the best kicker award is named after him! … Oh Biletnikoff, the best TE award is named after him… Oh… John Madden… The name of an entire NFL video game franchise… Oh dear
We (I) gotta get models of all the 3D charts they use so that we (I) can rotate and move around and look at in depth. There's so many stats I'm missing out on either because I can't make out the Z axis or because the stat is completely irrelevant to the Vikings, and thus for the sake of time and good writing must be ignored.
16:10 ah, so that's where the field goal curse started.
BLERGE
alan page
wait a minute…fran's dad's name was DALLAS ?! ….and he died watching what?
I’m convinced George Halas is somehow behind all of these ridiculous officiating decisions that kept screwing over the Vikings when it mattered most
The music is always so amazing, really brought the room together. RIP
It's strangely comforting to know that absolutely miserable, obviously wrong calls by officials have been ruining the NFL the entire time.
My entire life, until watching this video, I thought that was a FLAG thrown on the Pearson catch, not an ORANGE!? This blew my mind.
I feel like a major reason the Vikings would struggle in the playoffs and the Superbowl in particular was a lack of explosive plays. A pure vertical threat like Bob Hayes or Cliff Branch was the missing ingredient on offense.
Referees so incompetent or corrupt that they killed a man.
37:00 "Insurmountable lead of 28-3"
every Patriots, Saints, Bucs, and Panthers fan bursts out laughing
53:55 Tark only lost 3 Super Bowls FYI, but we get your point. Oh, and 3 tries to get into the HOF??? Ridiculous.
My dad went to law school with Alan Page at Minnesota. He said that Page was not a good student but got by because of his fame.
could have done without that falcons strays at 36:58, otherwise best sports vids out there
Boy, a Super Bowl featuring New Orelans having a second half kick-off recovered by the kicking team? Would never happen again surely?
#SKOL
23:00 Imagine if officials explained calls like this today