The Vikings have quite the lineup – 11 players who spent most of their careers in Minnesota plus Head Coach Bud Grant and General Manager Jim Finks – in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
If you ask Grant, however, one highly deserving individual hasn’t yet received his gold jacket: former defensive end Jim Marshall.
Mark Craig of the Star Tribune recently spoke with both Grant and Marshall about Marshall’s career on the gridiron, his life after football and what it would mean to receive those votes. Grant, who remains a consultant with the Vikings, said that Marshall’s absence from the Hall of Fame is “one of the big injustices of football.