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Former Viking Alan Page makes eloquent case for Jim Marshall being in NFL Hall of Fame

You're standing in the Vikings Museum. Alan Page, the greatest Viking of all, knows you're one of 48 Pro Football Hall of Fame selectors. He asks if he can make a case against the unjust treatment of an old friend named Jim Marshall.

Your first instinct as a child of the '70s is to look over your shoulder because there's no way in heck that Alan 1971-NFL-MVP Page — distinguished winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom and former Minnesota Supreme Court justice for over two decades — is actually asking your permission to begin opening statements.

Instead, you attempt a scholarly nod and say, "You may proceed, Mr.