And on that team was Jim Marshall and Fran Tarkenton. He was the greatest leader in football that I’ve ever played with . In all the years of the Vikings, from 1961 to now, there's never been a ...

Fran Tarkenton turns 84: ... He was named league MVP, was selected to nine Pro Bowls and in 1986 was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Fran Tarkenton, 84, at his Atlanta office in August. The photo at left is from the 2015 Pro Football Hall of Fame induction of former Vikings teammate Mick Tingelhoff. (Courtesy of Fran Tarkenton) ...

Sixty-six years later, Fran Tarkenton remembers every detail about his college football debut. It came at Memorial Stadium, as Texas’ stadium was called then. And it happened when Tarkenton put ...

And, no, they still haven’t had a true franchise quarterback since Fran Tarkenton. A year ago, we got the sense that the Vikings intended to ride it out with Kirk Cousins for one more year, with a ...

And on that team was Jim Marshall and Fran Tarkenton. He was the greatest leader in football that I’ve ever played with . In all the years of the Vikings, from 1961 to now, there's never been a ...

In a video posted earlier today, Hall of Fame quarterback Fran Tarkenton remembered Marshall and his impact on the franchise. “My great friend and teammate Jim Marshall died yesterday,” Tarkenton said ...