Minnesota Vikings • Joe Kapp

have a quarterback in professional football is paid to win I'm only going out there and doing my job with with the tools that I have and if people don't think it's pretty that suits me just fine as long as we win pro football is more than a game to Joe Kapp it is a demanding test for his stubborn will to win and a proving ground for his unique style in an age of classic passers he is the rock and roll of quarterbacks his passes float like balloons and sometimes he throws them with more Hope than accuracy and wouldn't cat can't pass he runs one of the writers in Minneapolis said I look like dad would Bumstead trying to catch a bus and that's how I feel sometimes I'm trying to catch a bus finesse and precision have no place in Joe Capps playbook each play is a new adventure I was born in Santa Fe New Mexico my mother is mexican-american her name is Garcia and my father is German gringo and we moved to California cap played his college football at the University of California and then played eight years in the Canadian Football League in 1967 he was purchased by the Minnesota Vikings and arrived in coach Bud Grant training camp as a 29 year old rookie wearing number 11 he won the starting job but it often seemed that he was paid more for his durability than for his talents cap ranked last in the league in passing statistics and Minnesota finish last in the Central Division you the season was so depressing that the Viking Stadium became known as Grant's tool but it was in the season of defeat that joke at first earned the respect of his teammates they respected him because he was tough because he refused to give up because he gave them the best of what he had there was a fighting heart under the ribs of defeat we got to go out there and continually be optimistic and think that you can score touchdowns because the minute you are not optimistic you're not going to be able to be aggressive enough to go after that team and get those touchdowns get those points on the board sometimes winning sometimes losing always searching the Vikings spent the 1968 season looking for the will to win everyone thought they had lost game by game play-by-play they found it they found it in a flying full-back named Bill Brown number 30 they found it in call Ella number 81 their all-pro defensive end and it was there in Dale hack bark number 49 a scrappy defensive back but they found most of it in their quarterback joke at he stamped his message on every pass catch and when catch and when as a run at cap averaged more than five yards to try and brought a crude courage to a position that is often known only for its grace and polish but more than the quarterback cap was a rallying point his teammates drew strength from his leadership and took pride in his toughness Don Anderson tag all right exactly I find that I like to play with with as much emotion as I can muster I like to play charged up Joe is a natural-born leader he is physically tough mentally tough he's a fierce competitor I like to take control of the game when you take the ball and instead of running out of bounds run over people and sort of put him out of the game and all of a sudden people are beginning to realize his value to the Minnesota Vikings Joe is just a rugged type individual and we're just a rugged team did I jump today I didn't notice when although I believe those were scrambles I didn't see anybody open so I ran he's more or less a throwback to deal with single wing tale back where it was relied upon to do everything he had a run with the football he had a pass that he had a kick at quarterbacks rated and evaluated their performance is evaluated as to whether they wanted lost you got to win a lot of people say that that Joe doesn't pass well or he can't run with a darn but but Joe goes out there and wins Joe doesn't really care whether he completes two passes or 20 as long as the Minnesota Vikings win everything must must become secondary to the total goal and that's the winning as a team this team wants to win and we were behind by 10 there's about time to get going well I don't know I've teased him a little bit I've been telling him that Joe keV has sold and I think this sums it up the fire on the horizon is joke cat burning with a rage to win in his first game of 1969 cap passed for seven touchdowns and led the Vikings to a smashing victory over the NFL champion Baltimore Colts Joe Kapp has just tied a dental football league record by passing for seven touchdowns in a single game if Joe can keep throwing like this the Vikings could end up in that title game in January driven by cap and supported by a vicious defense the Vikings won 12 straight game they scored the most points in the NFL and permitted the fewest the voice of victory strip right 26-week on to 318 ha ha guitar see the defenders are waiting they're waiting they're not going to commit themselves I really feel that we can run out there and I could just 3435 pancetta I mean if the back heaters look his eyes open is one because I really like this have to do we've all be playing with let's go now that's our ball I'm going to ring at 23 leave but I'm not going to reverse I'm going to open out on it 318 you ladies and gentlemen I would like to present this season's most valuable Viking award to Joe Kapp I know for a fact that there is no most valuable Viking there are only 40 most valuable by I I just can't accept this thank you January 4th 1970 joke cap will play football for the championship for the National Football League listen for the title listen for the title let's give us the championship rockets are 60 minutes split right 81 divided X curl and gold we're gonna sing tonight Carl got to sing that oh we got here now and then and it's free and the week safety is going to the deep middle so they're eating up in good right how we on the boom a movie got yet let's go John take him down we got away punch it out of here let's get the hell out of here you yeah Oh let us stick it in there too y'all lose they get in over defense we're going to exit if they get into under defense we're going to punch it Ozzy you're going to the Pope after three years of struggle Joe Kapp met the challenge of his League and emerged as its champion

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Length: 16min 26sec (986 seconds)

Published: Sun Jun 05 2016