Back on March 11th, the Vikings family tragically lost legendary head coach Bud Grant at the age of 95. On Sunday, the team held a celebration of life which was free to the public for all the Vikings fans that wanted to come to U.S. Bank Stadium and celebrate the coach and man that not only launched a long history of success in Minnesota, but also embodied the culture of the state perfectly.
Grant took over the Vikings head coaching gig in 1967, six years into the franchise’s creation, and almost immediately, he took a floundering expansion team that had never made the playoffs and turned them into a perennial contender.