December 30, 2025 • 22 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's time for Vikings Country, brought to you by Miller Lyte.
Now here's your host of Vikings Country from KFAN and
the Vikings Radio Network.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Muss.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Champlain. How are we doing. We're here Broadway pizza. Look
at all these Vikings fans we got over here. This
is our last Vikings Country of the season, sadly, but
what's really cool about that is that these people are
here to win tickets to go and see the Vikings
take on the Packers at us Bank Stadium in the
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Miller Light Lounge. We had a couple of pairs of
tickets to be given away. And we have a very
special guest that's here with us, and that he is
number forty four, Chuck Forman.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
How are you, buddy.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
I'm good, I'm good.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Good to be here. How are the holidays?
Speaker 5 (00:50):
Holidays were great. We had a great Christmas and looking
forward to the rest of it. Hopefully no drama though,
hopefully no holidays. I've always rama. Hopefully nothing that you started. Yeah, no,
I tried. I'm low key that way. It seems to
follow right right, right, right right.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
I think everyone should know that Chuck is playing hurt
and you gotta love this. The guy showed up, and
normally you got players that'll be like, Nope, can't do it.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
I'm gonna be questionable.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
No, Chuck Foreman shows up on the depth chart, right
and uh, you just had surgery today.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
No, yesterday is yesterday, three forty five. I went in,
got out at five thirty five. First took me a
little bit to get myself together and went home, slept,
got up this morning. I felt good, So I wouldn't canceling,
you know, I mean, there's a difference between being hurt
and being injured. You know, I wasn't going on injured reserve, right.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Right, right, right, Well, this season for the Vikings has
been a tough one, right, yeah, with the injury report
right almost every week it's a full sheet full of
guys that are having issues and that sometimes that just happens.
Do you guys remember back in the day, did you
guys have like that kind of injury report.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
Well, the reports weren't reported, yeah, and back in those days,
you know what I mean, you could be hurt. Well,
there's a difference between being hurt and being injured. According
to Bud Grant, you know, because he coming out you
heard or you injured.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
You might be.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
Limping around out there or something like that, and then
you had to start thinking, well, am I hurt or
am I injured? In other words, he was saying, get
yourself ready to go. But I think it's a whole
totally different game. Guys approach it different because the money's different.
And so when it comes to am I gonna play?
And if I'm not gonna play, I guess it would
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depend on the importance of the game of what situation
your team is at sure time.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Sure that makes sense, all right, So nineteen seventy three
to nineteen seventy nine played with the Minnesota Vikings NFL
Offensive Rookie of the Year in nineteen seventy three. You've
got so many, like five Pro Bowls, You've been a
part of so much with the Minnesota Vikings first round
draft pick of course, with the Vikings here, and what
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I think is interesting is that you played all of
your seasons with the Vikings except for one except for one, right,
and that doesn't really happen. And you've got a guy
like Harrison Smith twenty two, right, who is going to
play his entire career as a Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Right.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
But Harrison is a different, unique dude. You know, he's
a great leader within the franchise. Outside of the franchise,
his interests are varied, and he's just the kind of
guy you want to have around. And he's always ready
to play, so you know, he's consistent. You know, he's
a good, good man. And I'm happy to see all
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the great things that are happening on.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
He had such a great game against the Lions and
the white Out. Were you there, yes, for the Winter Whiteout?
So you got to see Snoop Dogg. I say, you
know all the words.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
No. The only reason I got to be straight with you.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
You know, I took my daughter to with me down
there because she kept I was thinking about not going
right because I wanted to watch it on my screen
big treen at home. But she you know, Dad, it's
Snoop Dogg. I'm glad I went to. It was a
good show, no doubt about it. You know it. It
was a fantastic show. He did a great job, and
(04:30):
I'm glad I was able to share it. But no,
I didn't. I didn't even know the word. I mean,
I know the beat, I could go with the beat,
you know the words.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
I didn't know anything about.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
But you know how how amazing is that.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
I mean, we all know where we are as Minnesota
Vikings in this season and how it's gone so far,
and you're taking on the Lions.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Yeah, it's the division game. You got the winter white out.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
It's on Christmas and that place packed and just white everyone.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
And it certainly was and the defense play lights out.
We won the game. It's uh the kind of environment
you want to be around. But it was even extra
special because it's Christmas, right, Yeah, and the guys you know,
you know, they're they're playing football and the kids who
I don't know if they were there at the game
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or what, but I'm sure there was always issues those
Christmas games. Well I don't want to play football on Christmas,
but it's like the game, yeah, to play on Christmas.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
So now you're talking about that defense and how well
the defense played, and it was one of the best
defensive games I've ever watched.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
You got six turnovers, there was five sacks.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
They did everything to win that game.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
And they've done that here for the last couple of
weeks with the defense just being so dominant, and you
ended up playing with a pretty good defense too.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
Oh. No doubt, probably the greatest to ever play here.
And we had some great defensive players understanding, but I'm
talking about the overall defensive team. You know, Carl Eli,
Jim Marsha, Allen Page, you can go, Gary Larson Man,
I can just name Wally Hilgenbury, Paul Krause, I can.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Go on and on and on. Yeah, you know, on
that defense.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
But they had, you know, it was a very mature
team when I got here. That's where I was lucky
because I was a rookie coming in and those guys
were like I was watching them when I was in
the eighth grade.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Can you imagine walking in that huddle that day that
first day.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
Yeah, and now walk in that huddle and I got
got home and I called my mother and father said, Mom,
you're not gonna beleeve it. I was in the huddle
with these guys, you know, Jim Off, all of them,
and it was.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
A great experience.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
And then come here to Minnesota and those in that
time in that area of football with a great organization
that was run. They did a great job and how
they handled the players and everything else.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Nick names spin doctor, right, Yeah, So that was your
that was your big move.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
That was my high school basketball move and then somebody
called it the spin doctor. One day, I'm like, no, man,
I was trying to get to some open space. So
I just fun out of that and get one over there.
And so that's how that happened. And we were playing
against when we're playing against the Houston.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Orlers my rookie year.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
Yeah, and I I was in a place, you know,
from what I could see, and then I saw opening
and I knew I could get there, but I'd had
to do something crazy to do it. So I just
I broke it down and that's fun. Back behind the
guy and I found myself with I was wide open
and wide open space.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
And I was like, wow, that worked. You know. Chuck
Forman old the pearl Mont role move.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
By the way, Chuck Forman is our gas hanging out
here Vikings Country.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
As we mentioned spin doctor on this one. Nicknames they we.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Have the Old Trapper of course, it was Bud Purple
people leaders, as we mentioned Moose was Heller right, yep, yep, yep,
two minute Tommy yep also yeah, great nicknames. Now we
got like Jets and the hit Man, koc B Flow,
but ultimately there's not enough really good nicknames out there anymore.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
No, they're not.
Speaker 5 (08:23):
They've got to be catchy, you know, and there's not
always a real catchy one.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
But is there, like your favorite nickname of anybody that
you ever played against or watched over the years, Like
even if it wasn't like the best player on the planet,
but there's also just a great nickname.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
I don't know, not right off hand, yep, that I
can think of.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
So you got Brian Flores in this defense.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
As we've talked about with Grenard and Ryan Ginkel and
Harrison Smith. Eric Wilson has been outstanding this year. I
think he has more TFLs than anybody in the league
right now. Blake Cashman has more tackles. I think he
actually broke Chad Greenway's record for consecutive games or not
consecutive games. Most games with ten plus are tackles. This defense,
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it's crazy when you look at it.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
What is it to you that you're.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Like, Okay, I'm trying to understand how this looks and
why it works.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
And then also, man, this is why it works well.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
First of all, they got the right defensive coordinating him.
When he got here, he saw the talent that he
had right, And who was the first person he went
and got Damn Ginkle because he played for him in Miami. Yes, yes, sir,
and so he knew what he was getting to implement
that defense. And then he went and got the cash
m game and played way above what everybody expected.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
And he's an exceptional player.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
And then you got all the rest of the guys
in there, and he puts them in position to make plays,
and they come to play every play.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
You know.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
Those guys are like you know, they ready every game.
So I don't know how long we'll have Brian Flord.
In fact, he should have been a head coach again
long ago. I might be a little selfish. Maybe I
would say to the Viking's going pay him like ten
million a year.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
Yeah, it doesn't go against captain.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
You're going paying his money and keep him here. He
might hang around, you know, for that kind of money,
but somebody don't.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Don't let him go.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
B Flows couldn't need you as his agent, right, you're
gonna get him ten milk? All right, Vikings Country hanging
out here. We're in Champlain. We're here at Broadway Pizza stop.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
On out here.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
We're giving away tickets to go see your Minnesota Vikings
in the very last game of this season in the
Miller Lite Lounge taking on the Packers. I'm gonna ask
you in the next segment about Packer like memories and
stuff like that, but first I want to go with
friand Tarkenton. Right, So, Francis, did you see that's incredible?
(10:59):
He was on Hill Street Blues. Did you see that
Hollywood in him when you were playing with him?
Speaker 2 (11:04):
No, I saw Hollywood and ed Marinaro.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Oh yeah, Hill Street Blue, Yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Sprid was on it too.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
He just did a couple of But Eddie, that was
his thing, and then he went on to do that
that high school thing, some kind of blue wherever.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
I just talked to Eddie the other day. But Eddie's
always been by praying. I didn't I didn't see him
being that guy.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
Yeah, did you ever think about acting?
Speaker 2 (11:32):
No?
Speaker 4 (11:32):
No, that was never a thing for you.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
No, I got to remember that's a different time. Those
those opportunities weren't really readily available.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Yeah, you know back then.
Speaker 5 (11:42):
But you know, but my experience, from overall football experience,
especially being here in Minnesota, I'm very lucky to be
here because I came here from Miami. And you know,
in Miami book, you gotta have a If you don't
have that little thing, a little swagger, if you don't
have this way when you first come to Miami, you
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definitely have it when you leave. And I kind of
brought someone that Minnesota had to kind of put it
on a hole for a minute, because Miami is a
whole different thing.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
But I really enjoyed, you know, being here.
Speaker 5 (12:16):
My kids went to school here and everything, and it's
a great it's a great place to be.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
And he's still here. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Yeah, as old as this, I don't understand that part.
Everybody else in Minnesota is trying to go to get
a place down to Miami.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
So yeah, the only thing about going to Miami now
going south now you want to go get a place.
It's like, you can't even get insurance on those places. Man,
you got if you got to have a lot of money.
Because it burns now or a flood comes or whatever,
it is, a big hurricane come to you, you gotta
come out.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
You're talking.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
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fans that are hanging out here waiting to get some tickets,
and we're having a great time as this is our
last Vikings Country here on the Fan.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
It's time for Vikings Country, brought to you by Miller Lyte.
Now here's your host of Vikings Country from Kfan and
the Vikings Radio Network, Muss.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. We're hanging out here and Champlain.
We're at Broadway Pete with our Minnesota Vikings fans. They're
trying to win tickets to go see your Vikings take
on the Packers. We're gonna get into that in just
a little bit with my special guests, and you can
join Pa Nordo and Alec Lewis Friday, December twelfth at
the Buffalo Wild Wings in.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Egan, December twelfth.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
That's a little bit, you know, yeah, the twenty two
what yeah, all right, the next one that's coming up here,
Friday Football Feast is coming up. It's going to be
an Egan January two. Thank you JW. By the way,
Jared wells helping me with that.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
The read was written wrong and it's.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
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Speaker 4 (14:22):
At least we got that in jan two. That's going
to be happening in Egan.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
And I'm hanging out here with Chuck Foreman, number forty four,
ladies and gentlemen, one of the greatest of all time.
For your Minnesota Vikings and Vikings legend, I mean, seriously,
your rushing stats. First, Vikings running back to rush for
two hundred plus yards in a game at Philly in.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
Nineteen seventy six.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Yeah, that was a long time ago.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
Right, but two hundred yards that's a hell of a game.
Speaker 5 (14:50):
Okay, remember this back in that era, if you rushed
for one thousand yards, you were top you were a
top dog. Yeah know, because you know, we had what
fourteen games back then? Yes, okay, so it's a whole
lot of you know, land down.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
But the seventeen games.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
Yes, or were at seventeen yep?
Speaker 5 (15:12):
Regular season, yeah, regular season, but I'm just saying a
thousand yards back then was was the ticket, you know,
and then with us, but the way we did things
the runner receiver, we changed everything because nobody else is
doing it like that.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
Yeah, because Jerry Burns.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Jared Burns created that offense.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
For right for me. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
And you're looking at like McCaffrey and all these other
guys nowadays where yeah.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
No, I appreciate you, but I was doing that long ago,
a long time ago.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Jerry Burns shot you out, and he taught you probably
a couple of really nice curse words.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Please don't say him loud.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
I won't do that.
Speaker 5 (15:53):
Oh, just imagine some of those meetings.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
I can just o a wow wow.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
I remember the first one that I was in and
I was coming from the college All Star game from
Chicago when we used to play against the.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
You know, the world champion NFL team.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
I think we were playing against the Dolph We played
against the Dolphins, and I just got there and I.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Don't know who. I walked in the dog.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
On meeting and he just went off, you know, I
can't say what he said.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
And then we get these such and such. Yeah, oh yeah,
oh yeah, Flip coming in here and.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
You're gonna take over. I'm like, what the.
Speaker 5 (16:34):
Oh yeah he did that intentionally, so he's afterwards he says,
I was just losing.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
He was unique.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Character, I've had a couple of times that a chance
to hang out with him, you know, and and we
we missed. Yeah, he's such a funny guy. Aside from yourself,
who is the best most complete running back NFL history?
Speaker 2 (17:00):
In your Ope, Man, I can't go there.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
Why not.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Besides myself?
Speaker 4 (17:06):
He said, yes, Yeah, I did say that.
Speaker 5 (17:07):
Yeah, Okay, I'm gonna just run some names by it
because they were before me.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
I grew up right between Baltimore and Washington, d C.
A place called Frederick, Maryland. There was a guy by
the name of Lenny Moore. There was a guy by
the name of Tom Maddy played with the They both
played together on the Baltimore coach at the time. When
I was in college. There was a guy named Jim Kick.
He could do it all. All those guys that could
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do everything were the guys I kind of followed because
my my coach always be a football player, don't just
be a running back, be a player. So if I
would have put they would have put me at cornerback.
I probably have been pretty good at that too. If
I was that wide receiver, I know I would have
been good at that. But you know, in my time,
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in my era and where I came from, and the
coaches that coached me, whether it was a basketball track
or anything, they always you know.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Said be able to do everything.
Speaker 5 (18:11):
Yeah, and so like you know, like when I went
to college, you know, I was I was like state
champion in the hurdles two years in the row going
down to Miami, and I don't think they any of
them knew that. So what I ended up doing was
like they recruited this guy's name was Bruce Bishop. He
was from Maslin, Ohio, I think back in those days
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that's where great football was in Ohio. And he was
supposed to be the fastest guy on the on the team.
And I was recruited at Miami as a defensive tackle
tight end, and I just said, okay, let me just
put this. So I jumped on him real quick and
I beat him in the forty you know, and then
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you know, from that point on, I was no longer
a tight end defensive tackle, yeah right, I was a
wiree receiver running cornerback kind of guy like that.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Speaking of that kind of talent, Justin Jefferson just passed
Randy Moss as a wide receiver with the most receiving
yards in his first six seasons in their NFL career.
He's got nine hundred and forty seven yards so far
this year. He's fifty three yards away from one thousand yards.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
I think I did the math right there, and.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
There has not been a season so far in his
career that he hasn't hit one thousand yards. Justin Jefferson,
your thoughts.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
One of the best I've ever seen, is no doubt
about it is.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
You know what when you see it when you meet
a guy that's a great athlete, but then when you
meet him, he's a kind of a great guy too,
you know what I mean, that makes it even more special.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
So I know this year hasn't been what he wants.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
It to be towards the end here, sure, but I
think he'll get another thousand yards. But I think for
the Vikings and all the great receivers we've had here, well,
he he might.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
He might be the Beth.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Yeah, I totally agree, and I think all of our
Vikings fans might there's gonna be there's gonna be something
dispective about that, oh for sure. Yeah, absolutely goes. But
I mean, when you're breaking Randy Moss wreck, yeah you're
doing something right.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
All right.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
So we're talking about this fact that it's the last
game of the regular season for the Minnesota Vikings, Spikings
eliminated from the playoffs, taking on the Packers at home
US Bank Stadium. We're giving away tickets here tonight, uh
here at Broadway Pizza and Champlain. But the Packers, no
love Willis is probably gonna be in again once again.
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Jacobs Parsons not gonna be playing at all.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
There.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
What I really want to know, though, is I got
I got to think that you have some Green Bay
Packers stories, Vikings versus Packer and stories over the years.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
Those were I mean, when you come into the Viking organization,
that's the first thing you know. You know that's your border.
You know it's your border enemy right there. So whenever
we played the Packers, regardless of what your record was,
you knew it was going to be a tough game
and you really didn't know who was gonna win until
it was all pretty much over because it was like
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it was just like a fight, a heavyweight fight, and
everybody got up a little bit more for that game
because it was you know, the Green Bay Packers and
it's historic, you know, I mean historic franchise. Vikings you
know weren't quite you know, on the same level as
Green Bay, but wanted that, you know, so we were
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fighting to get him. I thought we got there.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
And uh for Brett blakemore who's running the board back
at the station, who's a big packer.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
Uh back in your day, you guys used.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
To be the Blake. Sorry to tell you that.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Well, Thank you so much. Thank you guys all so
much for coming out here. We totally appreciate it. Chuck
Foreman hanging out with us and Vikings fans right now.
You can pick up a commemorative Pepsi Vikings Cup at
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thank you guys so much for coming out. We totally
appreciate our Viking Street teamers, our Miller Lite ladies. Thank
you guys so much for coming out. Skull Vikes. We
got one more to go. Let's go kick the pats ass.
It's time for Vikings Country, brought to you by Miller Lyte.
Now here's your host of Vikings Country from KFAN and
the Vikings Radio Network.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Muss.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Champlain. How are we doing. We're here Broadway pizza. Look
at all these Vikings fans we got over here. This
is our last Vikings Country of the season, sadly, but
what's really cool about that is that these people are
here to win tickets to go and see the Vikings
take on the Packers at us Bank Stadium in the
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Miller Light Lounge. We had a couple of pairs of
tickets to be given away. And we have a very
special guest that's here with us, and that he is
number forty four, Chuck Forman.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
How are you, buddy.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
I'm good, I'm good.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Good to be here. How are the holidays?
Speaker 5 (00:50):
Holidays were great. We had a great Christmas and looking
forward to the rest of it. Hopefully no drama though,
hopefully no holidays. I've always rama. Hopefully nothing that you started. Yeah, no,
I tried. I'm low key that way. It seems to
follow right right, right, right right.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
I think everyone should know that Chuck is playing hurt
and you gotta love this. The guy showed up, and
normally you got players that'll be like, Nope, can't do it.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
I'm gonna be questionable.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
No, Chuck Foreman shows up on the depth chart, right
and uh, you just had surgery today.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
No, yesterday is yesterday, three forty five. I went in,
got out at five thirty five. First took me a
little bit to get myself together and went home, slept,
got up this morning. I felt good, So I wouldn't canceling,
you know, I mean, there's a difference between being hurt
and being injured. You know, I wasn't going on injured reserve, right.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Right, right, right, Well, this season for the Vikings has
been a tough one, right, yeah, with the injury report
right almost every week it's a full sheet full of
guys that are having issues and that sometimes that just happens.
Do you guys remember back in the day, did you
guys have like that kind of injury report.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
Well, the reports weren't reported, yeah, and back in those days,
you know what I mean, you could be hurt. Well,
there's a difference between being hurt and being injured. According
to Bud Grant, you know, because he coming out you
heard or you injured.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
You might be.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
Limping around out there or something like that, and then
you had to start thinking, well, am I hurt or
am I injured? In other words, he was saying, get
yourself ready to go. But I think it's a whole
totally different game. Guys approach it different because the money's different.
And so when it comes to am I gonna play?
And if I'm not gonna play, I guess it would
(02:44):
depend on the importance of the game of what situation
your team is at sure time.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Sure that makes sense, all right, So nineteen seventy three
to nineteen seventy nine played with the Minnesota Vikings NFL
Offensive Rookie of the Year in nineteen seventy three. You've
got so many, like five Pro Bowls, You've been a
part of so much with the Minnesota Vikings first round
draft pick of course, with the Vikings here, and what
(03:11):
I think is interesting is that you played all of
your seasons with the Vikings except for one except for one, right,
and that doesn't really happen. And you've got a guy
like Harrison Smith twenty two, right, who is going to
play his entire career as a Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Right.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
But Harrison is a different, unique dude. You know, he's
a great leader within the franchise. Outside of the franchise,
his interests are varied, and he's just the kind of
guy you want to have around. And he's always ready
to play, so you know, he's consistent. You know, he's
a good, good man. And I'm happy to see all
(03:53):
the great things that are happening on.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
He had such a great game against the Lions and
the white Out. Were you there, yes, for the Winter Whiteout?
So you got to see Snoop Dogg. I say, you
know all the words.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
No. The only reason I got to be straight with you.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
You know, I took my daughter to with me down
there because she kept I was thinking about not going
right because I wanted to watch it on my screen
big treen at home. But she you know, Dad, it's
Snoop Dogg. I'm glad I went to. It was a
good show, no doubt about it. You know it. It
was a fantastic show. He did a great job, and
(04:30):
I'm glad I was able to share it. But no,
I didn't. I didn't even know the word. I mean,
I know the beat, I could go with the beat,
you know the words.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
I didn't know anything about.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
But you know how how amazing is that.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
I mean, we all know where we are as Minnesota
Vikings in this season and how it's gone so far,
and you're taking on the Lions.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Yeah, it's the division game. You got the winter white out.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
It's on Christmas and that place packed and just white everyone.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
And it certainly was and the defense play lights out.
We won the game. It's uh the kind of environment
you want to be around. But it was even extra
special because it's Christmas, right, Yeah, and the guys you know,
you know, they're they're playing football and the kids who
I don't know if they were there at the game
(05:21):
or what, but I'm sure there was always issues those
Christmas games. Well I don't want to play football on Christmas,
but it's like the game, yeah, to play on Christmas.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
So now you're talking about that defense and how well
the defense played, and it was one of the best
defensive games I've ever watched.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
You got six turnovers, there was five sacks.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
They did everything to win that game.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
And they've done that here for the last couple of
weeks with the defense just being so dominant, and you
ended up playing with a pretty good defense too.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
Oh. No doubt, probably the greatest to ever play here.
And we had some great defensive players understanding, but I'm
talking about the overall defensive team. You know, Carl Eli,
Jim Marsha, Allen Page, you can go, Gary Larson Man,
I can just name Wally Hilgenbury, Paul Krause, I can.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Go on and on and on. Yeah, you know, on
that defense.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
But they had, you know, it was a very mature
team when I got here. That's where I was lucky
because I was a rookie coming in and those guys
were like I was watching them when I was in
the eighth grade.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Can you imagine walking in that huddle that day that
first day.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
Yeah, and now walk in that huddle and I got
got home and I called my mother and father said, Mom,
you're not gonna beleeve it. I was in the huddle
with these guys, you know, Jim Off, all of them,
and it was.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
A great experience.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
And then come here to Minnesota and those in that
time in that area of football with a great organization
that was run. They did a great job and how
they handled the players and everything else.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Nick names spin doctor, right, Yeah, So that was your
that was your big move.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
That was my high school basketball move and then somebody
called it the spin doctor. One day, I'm like, no, man,
I was trying to get to some open space. So
I just fun out of that and get one over there.
And so that's how that happened. And we were playing
against when we're playing against the Houston.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Orlers my rookie year.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
Yeah, and I I was in a place, you know,
from what I could see, and then I saw opening
and I knew I could get there, but I'd had
to do something crazy to do it. So I just
I broke it down and that's fun. Back behind the
guy and I found myself with I was wide open
and wide open space.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
And I was like, wow, that worked. You know. Chuck
Forman old the pearl Mont role move.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
By the way, Chuck Forman is our gas hanging out
here Vikings Country.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
As we mentioned spin doctor on this one. Nicknames they we.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Have the Old Trapper of course, it was Bud Purple
people leaders, as we mentioned Moose was Heller right, yep, yep, yep,
two minute Tommy yep also yeah, great nicknames. Now we
got like Jets and the hit Man, koc B Flow,
but ultimately there's not enough really good nicknames out there anymore.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
No, they're not.
Speaker 5 (08:23):
They've got to be catchy, you know, and there's not
always a real catchy one.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
But is there, like your favorite nickname of anybody that
you ever played against or watched over the years, Like
even if it wasn't like the best player on the planet,
but there's also just a great nickname.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
I don't know, not right off hand, yep, that I
can think of.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
So you got Brian Flores in this defense.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
As we've talked about with Grenard and Ryan Ginkel and
Harrison Smith. Eric Wilson has been outstanding this year. I
think he has more TFLs than anybody in the league
right now. Blake Cashman has more tackles. I think he
actually broke Chad Greenway's record for consecutive games or not
consecutive games. Most games with ten plus are tackles. This defense,
(09:14):
it's crazy when you look at it.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
What is it to you that you're.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Like, Okay, I'm trying to understand how this looks and
why it works.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
And then also, man, this is why it works well.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
First of all, they got the right defensive coordinating him.
When he got here, he saw the talent that he
had right, And who was the first person he went
and got Damn Ginkle because he played for him in Miami. Yes, yes, sir,
and so he knew what he was getting to implement
that defense. And then he went and got the cash
m game and played way above what everybody expected.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
And he's an exceptional player.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
And then you got all the rest of the guys
in there, and he puts them in position to make plays,
and they come to play every play.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
You know.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
Those guys are like you know, they ready every game.
So I don't know how long we'll have Brian Flord.
In fact, he should have been a head coach again
long ago. I might be a little selfish. Maybe I
would say to the Viking's going pay him like ten
million a year.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
Yeah, it doesn't go against captain.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
You're going paying his money and keep him here. He
might hang around, you know, for that kind of money,
but somebody don't.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Don't let him go.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
B Flows couldn't need you as his agent, right, you're
gonna get him ten milk? All right, Vikings Country hanging
out here. We're in Champlain. We're here at Broadway Pizza stop.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
On out here.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
We're giving away tickets to go see your Minnesota Vikings
in the very last game of this season in the
Miller Lite Lounge taking on the Packers. I'm gonna ask
you in the next segment about Packer like memories and
stuff like that, but first I want to go with
friand Tarkenton. Right, So, Francis, did you see that's incredible?
(10:59):
He was on Hill Street Blues. Did you see that
Hollywood in him when you were playing with him?
Speaker 2 (11:04):
No, I saw Hollywood and ed Marinaro.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Oh yeah, Hill Street Blue, Yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Sprid was on it too.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
He just did a couple of But Eddie, that was
his thing, and then he went on to do that
that high school thing, some kind of blue wherever.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
I just talked to Eddie the other day. But Eddie's
always been by praying. I didn't I didn't see him
being that guy.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
Yeah, did you ever think about acting?
Speaker 2 (11:32):
No?
Speaker 4 (11:32):
No, that was never a thing for you.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
No, I got to remember that's a different time. Those
those opportunities weren't really readily available.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Yeah, you know back then.
Speaker 5 (11:42):
But you know, but my experience, from overall football experience,
especially being here in Minnesota, I'm very lucky to be
here because I came here from Miami. And you know,
in Miami book, you gotta have a If you don't
have that little thing, a little swagger, if you don't
have this way when you first come to Miami, you
(12:03):
definitely have it when you leave. And I kind of
brought someone that Minnesota had to kind of put it
on a hole for a minute, because Miami is a
whole different thing.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
But I really enjoyed, you know, being here.
Speaker 5 (12:16):
My kids went to school here and everything, and it's
a great it's a great place to be.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
And he's still here. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Yeah, as old as this, I don't understand that part.
Everybody else in Minnesota is trying to go to get
a place down to Miami.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
So yeah, the only thing about going to Miami now
going south now you want to go get a place.
It's like, you can't even get insurance on those places. Man,
you got if you got to have a lot of money.
Because it burns now or a flood comes or whatever,
it is, a big hurricane come to you, you gotta
come out.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
You're talking.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Chuck Forman is our guest hanging out here. Hey, By
the way, Minnesota needed a go to source for everything
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got more coming up on the way. We're hanging out
here and Champlain. We're hanging out with Miller Lite Vikings
(13:12):
fans that are hanging out here waiting to get some tickets,
and we're having a great time as this is our
last Vikings Country here on the Fan.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
It's time for Vikings Country, brought to you by Miller Lyte.
Now here's your host of Vikings Country from Kfan and
the Vikings Radio Network, Muss.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. We're hanging out here and Champlain.
We're at Broadway Pete with our Minnesota Vikings fans. They're
trying to win tickets to go see your Vikings take
on the Packers. We're gonna get into that in just
a little bit with my special guests, and you can
join Pa Nordo and Alec Lewis Friday, December twelfth at
the Buffalo Wild Wings in.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Egan, December twelfth.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
That's a little bit, you know, yeah, the twenty two
what yeah, all right, the next one that's coming up here,
Friday Football Feast is coming up. It's going to be
an Egan January two. Thank you JW. By the way,
Jared wells helping me with that.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
The read was written wrong and it's.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Brought you by Corps Light and the Vikings dot Com
slash BWW for the full the tails.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
At least we got that in jan two. That's going
to be happening in Egan.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
And I'm hanging out here with Chuck Foreman, number forty four,
ladies and gentlemen, one of the greatest of all time.
For your Minnesota Vikings and Vikings legend, I mean, seriously,
your rushing stats. First, Vikings running back to rush for
two hundred plus yards in a game at Philly in.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
Nineteen seventy six.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Yeah, that was a long time ago.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
Right, but two hundred yards that's a hell of a game.
Speaker 5 (14:50):
Okay, remember this back in that era, if you rushed
for one thousand yards, you were top you were a
top dog. Yeah know, because you know, we had what
fourteen games back then? Yes, okay, so it's a whole
lot of you know, land down.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
But the seventeen games.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
Yes, or were at seventeen yep?
Speaker 5 (15:12):
Regular season, yeah, regular season, but I'm just saying a
thousand yards back then was was the ticket, you know,
and then with us, but the way we did things
the runner receiver, we changed everything because nobody else is
doing it like that.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
Yeah, because Jerry Burns.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Jared Burns created that offense.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
For right for me. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
And you're looking at like McCaffrey and all these other
guys nowadays where yeah.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
No, I appreciate you, but I was doing that long ago,
a long time ago.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Jerry Burns shot you out, and he taught you probably
a couple of really nice curse words.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Please don't say him loud.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
I won't do that.
Speaker 5 (15:53):
Oh, just imagine some of those meetings.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
I can just o a wow wow.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
I remember the first one that I was in and
I was coming from the college All Star game from
Chicago when we used to play against the.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
You know, the world champion NFL team.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
I think we were playing against the Dolph We played
against the Dolphins, and I just got there and I.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Don't know who. I walked in the dog.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
On meeting and he just went off, you know, I
can't say what he said.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
And then we get these such and such. Yeah, oh yeah,
oh yeah, Flip coming in here and.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
You're gonna take over. I'm like, what the.
Speaker 5 (16:34):
Oh yeah he did that intentionally, so he's afterwards he says,
I was just losing.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
He was unique.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Character, I've had a couple of times that a chance
to hang out with him, you know, and and we
we missed. Yeah, he's such a funny guy. Aside from yourself,
who is the best most complete running back NFL history?
Speaker 2 (17:00):
In your Ope, Man, I can't go there.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
Why not.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Besides myself?
Speaker 4 (17:06):
He said, yes, Yeah, I did say that.
Speaker 5 (17:07):
Yeah, Okay, I'm gonna just run some names by it
because they were before me.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
I grew up right between Baltimore and Washington, d C.
A place called Frederick, Maryland. There was a guy by
the name of Lenny Moore. There was a guy by
the name of Tom Maddy played with the They both
played together on the Baltimore coach at the time. When
I was in college. There was a guy named Jim Kick.
He could do it all. All those guys that could
(17:38):
do everything were the guys I kind of followed because
my my coach always be a football player, don't just
be a running back, be a player. So if I
would have put they would have put me at cornerback.
I probably have been pretty good at that too. If
I was that wide receiver, I know I would have
been good at that. But you know, in my time,
(17:59):
in my era and where I came from, and the
coaches that coached me, whether it was a basketball track
or anything, they always you know.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Said be able to do everything.
Speaker 5 (18:11):
Yeah, and so like you know, like when I went
to college, you know, I was I was like state
champion in the hurdles two years in the row going
down to Miami, and I don't think they any of
them knew that. So what I ended up doing was
like they recruited this guy's name was Bruce Bishop. He
was from Maslin, Ohio, I think back in those days
(18:31):
that's where great football was in Ohio. And he was
supposed to be the fastest guy on the on the team.
And I was recruited at Miami as a defensive tackle
tight end, and I just said, okay, let me just
put this. So I jumped on him real quick and
I beat him in the forty you know, and then
(18:52):
you know, from that point on, I was no longer
a tight end defensive tackle, yeah right, I was a
wiree receiver running cornerback kind of guy like that.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Speaking of that kind of talent, Justin Jefferson just passed
Randy Moss as a wide receiver with the most receiving
yards in his first six seasons in their NFL career.
He's got nine hundred and forty seven yards so far
this year. He's fifty three yards away from one thousand yards.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
I think I did the math right there, and.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
There has not been a season so far in his
career that he hasn't hit one thousand yards. Justin Jefferson,
your thoughts.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
One of the best I've ever seen, is no doubt
about it is.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
You know what when you see it when you meet
a guy that's a great athlete, but then when you
meet him, he's a kind of a great guy too,
you know what I mean, that makes it even more special.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
So I know this year hasn't been what he wants.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
It to be towards the end here, sure, but I
think he'll get another thousand yards. But I think for
the Vikings and all the great receivers we've had here, well,
he he might.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
He might be the Beth.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Yeah, I totally agree, and I think all of our
Vikings fans might there's gonna be there's gonna be something
dispective about that, oh for sure. Yeah, absolutely goes. But
I mean, when you're breaking Randy Moss wreck, yeah you're
doing something right.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
All right.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
So we're talking about this fact that it's the last
game of the regular season for the Minnesota Vikings, Spikings
eliminated from the playoffs, taking on the Packers at home
US Bank Stadium. We're giving away tickets here tonight, uh
here at Broadway Pizza and Champlain. But the Packers, no
love Willis is probably gonna be in again once again.
(20:45):
Jacobs Parsons not gonna be playing at all.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
There.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
What I really want to know, though, is I got
I got to think that you have some Green Bay
Packers stories, Vikings versus Packer and stories over the years.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
Those were I mean, when you come into the Viking organization,
that's the first thing you know. You know that's your border.
You know it's your border enemy right there. So whenever
we played the Packers, regardless of what your record was,
you knew it was going to be a tough game
and you really didn't know who was gonna win until
it was all pretty much over because it was like
(21:20):
it was just like a fight, a heavyweight fight, and
everybody got up a little bit more for that game
because it was you know, the Green Bay Packers and
it's historic, you know, I mean historic franchise. Vikings you
know weren't quite you know, on the same level as
Green Bay, but wanted that, you know, so we were
(21:42):
fighting to get him. I thought we got there.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
And uh for Brett blakemore who's running the board back
at the station, who's a big packer.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
Uh back in your day, you guys used.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
To be the Blake. Sorry to tell you that.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Well, Thank you so much. Thank you guys all so
much for coming out here. We totally appreciate it. Chuck
Foreman hanging out with us and Vikings fans right now.
You can pick up a commemorative Pepsi Vikings Cup at
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Victor's Ride. You find out more at Vikings dot com. Otherwise,
(22:24):
thank you guys so much for coming out. We totally
appreciate our Viking Street teamers, our Miller Lite ladies. Thank
you guys so much for coming out. Skull Vikes. We
got one more to go. Let's go kick the pats ass.
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