Vikings Owner Mark Wilf told reporters on Tuesday at the Annual League Meeting that the team is making a push for former defensive end Jim Marshall to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Mark Craig of the Star Tribune was on hand in Arizona to hear Wilf’s statements on Marshall, a longtime captain and endcap of the vaunted Purple People Eaters.
Marshall played for the Vikings from 1961-79, and he received back-to-back Pro Bowl nods for his performance during the 1968 and 1969 seasons.
“Jim Marshall is really one of the greatest Vikings of all time,” Wilf told Craig and the other reporters.