Chuck Foreman didn't expect to play much for Bud Grant as a rookie. Or fall in love with Minnesota. Or spend the next half century shivering among us as one of the state's most beloved sons and accessible legends of Vikings Nation.
"I don't even hunt," he said with a laugh.
But the former running back does remember a certain armed expedition with Grant — the noted outdoorsman/NFL icon — and teammates Wally Hilgenberg, Roy Winston and Hall of Famer Mick Tingelhoff as a 23-year-old first-round draft pick straight out of South Beach and the University of Miami.