Thread: My New Best Friend

Tell him you have a cat for your avatar, surely he will be impressed.

"ultravikingfan" wrote:

Tell him you have a cat for your avatar, surely he will be impressed.

I must have missed something.
What is the deal with cats and Chuck?

Chuck Foreman -- a Vikings legend. Just treat him with lots of respect and represent Purple Pride well.

Isn't there some anecdote going around that the OC for Bud Grant, Jerry Burns, changed the offense to get Foreman the ball through the air, and this in part inspired the WCO? If so, it's interesting that we run that offense again now.

"vikesfargo" wrote:

Chuck Foreman -- a Vikings legend. Just treat him with lots of respect and represent Purple Pride well.

Isn't there some anecdote going around that the OC for Bud Grant, Jerry Burns, changed the offense to get Foreman the ball through the air, and this in part inspired the WCO? If so, it's interesting that we run that offense again now.

both the "West Coast Offense" and the "Tampa 2 Defense" were both, more or less, started in Minnesota

"Vikes_King" wrote:

"vikesfargo" wrote:

Chuck Foreman -- a Vikings legend. Just treat him with lots of respect and represent Purple Pride well.

Isn't there some anecdote going around that the OC for Bud Grant, Jerry Burns, changed the offense to get Foreman the ball through the air, and this in part inspired the WCO? If so, it's interesting that we run that offense again now.

both the "West Coast Offense" and the "Tampa 2 Defense" were both, more or less, started in Minnesota

So, it would be safe to say that MN is the birthplace of successful football ideologies.
Choke on the Green Bay!

(now we just have to get that damn trophy)

"Vikes_King" wrote:

"vikesfargo" wrote:

Chuck Foreman -- a Vikings legend. Just treat him with lots of respect and represent Purple Pride well.

Isn't there some anecdote going around that the OC for Bud Grant, Jerry Burns, changed the offense to get Foreman the ball through the air, and this in part inspired the WCO? If so, it's interesting that we run that offense again now.

both the "West Coast Offense" and the "Tampa 2 Defense" were both, more or less, started in Minnesota

Dungy gives all the credit for the Tampa 2 to the Steelers of the 1970's:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tampa_2

The roots of the Tampa 2 system actually are in the Steel Curtain days of Pittsburgh football. Tony Dungy has been quoted to say "My philosophy is really out of the 1975 Pittsburgh Steelers playbook," said Dungy during media interviews while at Super Bowl XLI. "That is why I have to laugh when I hear 'Tampa 2'. Chuck Noll and Bud Carson — that is where it came from, I changed very little."

"ultravikingfan" wrote:

"Vikes_King" wrote:

"vikesfargo" wrote:

Chuck Foreman -- a Vikings legend. Just treat him with lots of respect and represent Purple Pride well.

Isn't there some anecdote going around that the OC for Bud Grant, Jerry Burns, changed the offense to get Foreman the ball through the air, and this in part inspired the WCO? If so, it's interesting that we run that offense again now.

both the "West Coast Offense" and the "Tampa 2 Defense" were both, more or less, started in Minnesota

So, it would be safe to say that MN is the birthplace of successful football ideologies.
Choke on the Green Bay!

(now we just have to get that damn trophy)

Not so fast boys.......The WCO was first developed by Don Coryell's St. Louis Cardinals...

Read below..

[edit] Original West Coast Offense: Air Coryell
Kosar used the term to describe the offense formalized by Sid Gillman with the AFL Chargers in the 1960s and later by Don Coryell's St. Louis Cardinals and Chargers in the 1970s and 1980s. Al Davis, an assistant under Gillman, also carried his version to the Oakland Raiders, where his successors John Rauch, John Madden, and Tom Flores continued to employ and expand upon its basic principles. This is the "West Coast Offense" as Kosar originally used the term. However, it is now commonly referred to as the "Air Coryell" timed system, and the term West Coast Offense is usually instead used to describe Bill Walsh's system.

The offense uses a specific naming system, with the routes for wideouts and tight ends receiving three digit numbers, and routes for backs having unique names. For example, a pass play in 3 digit form might be "Split Right 787 check swing, check V". (see Offensive Nomenclature). This provides an efficient way to communicate many different plays with minimal memorization.






But many also like to credit Bill Walshe and the 49'ers for perfecting it.........

"SKOL" wrote:

"Vikes_King" wrote:

"vikesfargo" wrote:

Chuck Foreman -- a Vikings legend. Just treat him with lots of respect and represent Purple Pride well.

Isn't there some anecdote going around that the OC for Bud Grant, Jerry Burns, changed the offense to get Foreman the ball through the air, and this in part inspired the WCO? If so, it's interesting that we run that offense again now.

both the "West Coast Offense" and the "Tampa 2 Defense" were both, more or less, started in Minnesota

Dungy gives all the credit for the Tampa 2 to the Steelers of the 1970's:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tampa_2

The roots of the Tampa 2 system actually are in the Steel Curtain days of Pittsburgh football. Tony Dungy has been quoted to say "My philosophy is really out of the 1975 Pittsburgh Steelers playbook," said Dungy during media interviews while at Super Bowl XLI. "That is why I have to laugh when I hear 'Tampa 2'. Chuck Noll and Bud Carson — that is where it came from, I changed very little."

Nice piece of info there SKol,





I still like to call it the "
Dungy 2 "

;D

"ultravikingfan" wrote:

Are you getting him a BFF bracelet?
;D

A group of us from the site met him a couple years ago.
He was really nice.
He hung out for a while, gave us autographs, took pictures.
It was great!