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Harry Peter "Bud" Grant Jr. (May 20, 1927 – March 11, 2023) was an American professional football player and coach in the National Football League (NFL) and Canadian Football League (CFL). Grant was head coach of the NFL's Minnesota Vikings for 18 seasons; he was the team's second (1967–83) and fourth (1985) head coach, leading them to four ...
Former Minnesota Vikings NFL football coach Bud Grant has died. ... Bud Grant was a multi-sport star. The only thing missing from Grant's résumé was a Super Bowl championship. That was a big ...
Following the Minnesota Vikings' admission to the National Football League, there were ultimately two candidates for the position of head coach: Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Norm Van Brocklin and Winnipeg Blue Bombers head coach Bud Grant. Van Brocklin was favored by three of the Vikings' five board members, and after discussions with the ...
The Minnesota Vikings general manager was Jim Finks, who had brought Kapp to Canada in 1959, and their head coach was Bud Grant, who had faced Kapp while coaching the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. Both Finks and Grant thought Joe Kapp would be the best replacement for Fran Tarkenton, who had been traded to the New York Giants. [14]
Vikings co-owner Mark Wilf announced Tuesday that the team will wear its classic uniforms with a featured "Bud" signature patch for the Sept. 10 home opener against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, in ...
Following his playing career, he was the inaugural head coach of the Minnesota Vikings from 1961 to 1966 and the second head coach of the Atlanta Falcons from 1968 to 1974. Van Brocklin played college football for the Oregon Webfoots , earning All-America honors, but was not selected by the Rams until the fourth round of the 1949 NFL draft due ...
Marvin Daniel Levy (/ ˈ l iː v iː /; born August 3, 1925) [1] is an American former football coach and executive who was a head coach in the National Football League (NFL) for seventeen seasons. He spent most of his head coaching career with the Buffalo Bills , leading them from 1986 to 1997.
His six Super Bowl appearances rank second among head coaches (behind only Bill Belichick) and he has the most Super Bowl losses at four, tied with Bud Grant, Marv Levy, and Dan Reeves for the most Super Bowl losses, although Grant, Levy, and Reeves went winless in the Super Bowl. He was the first head coach to bring two franchises to the Super ...