Matt Kalil of the Minnesota Vikings wore a wristband with "RIP Jay and Rik" written on it during Saturday's match at Green Bay Packers.
Doleman led the NFL with 21 sacks in 1989 while a member of the Minnesota Vikings, and he finished his career with 150, fourth-most in league history.
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The NFL found evidence that bounties were put out on quarterbacks Brett Favre of the Minnesota Vikings, Cam Newton of the Carolina Panthers, Aaron Rodgers of the Green Bay Packers, and Kurt Warner of the Arizona Cardinals.
In his 16 NFL campaigns, most of them with the Minnesota Vikings, he was consistently among the league's top wideouts with eight straight seasons with over 1, 000 receiving yards and 130 total touchdowns.
Considering the closeness of the 2009 NFC Championship game between the Minnesota Vikings and the New Orleans Saints, Vikings quarterback Brett Favre would no doubt like to have back a few errant passes caught by the opposition.
On October 6, the New England Patriots did what at the time was the unthinkable: they traded star receiver and certain future Hall of Famer Randy Moss to the Minnesota Vikings for a 2011 third-round draft pick.
Mr. Tarkenton, an NFL Hall of Fame quarterback with the Minnesota Vikings and the New York Giants from 1961 to 1978, is an entrepreneur who runs two websites devoted to small business education.
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Unsurprisingly, Green Bay, Minnesota and Chicago lead the ice brigade, combining for nine of the 16 coldest games on record (though Minnesota dropped out of further contention when the hometown Vikings moved indoors in 1982).
"It's one part of it, but it's just one, " Minnesota Vikings general manager Rick Spielman said after the workout.
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Vikings ownership has another card to play with the Minnesota legislature in its drive for public funding of a new stadium.
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