Favorite Vikings' Moment?

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My personal favorite moment was Ahmad Rashad's hail mary catch against the Browns in 1980 to win the game. That was an absolutely amazing play.

[CalVike]

Qadry wasn't the Rocket that was his brother Raghib "Rocket" Ismail.

Qadry was "the Missile"

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As for personal moments, I grew up in Mankato before we moved to Chicago. Back in the 70s very few people went to training camp, so there was no cost to do so. It was a cheap way for my dad to entertain me. At the end of practice we would hang out at the gate where the players would walk out to cross the streets and head to the dorms. We would just stand there and I would give "fives" to the likes of Page, Tarkenton, Yary, Blair, Krause, Foreman, Eller and my alltime favorite Marshall. Those were great moments that I was lucky enough to share with my dad.

That... is awesome!!

[VikeMike]

As for personal moments, I grew up in Mankato before we moved to Chicago. Back in the 70s very few people went to training camp, so there was no cost to do so. It was a cheap way for my dad to entertain me. At the end of practice we would hang out at the gate where the players would walk out to cross the streets and head to the dorms. We would just stand there and I would give "fives" to the likes of Page, Tarkenton, Yary, Blair, Krause, Foreman, Eller and my alltime favorite Marshall. Those were great moments that I was lucky enough to share with my dad.

That really is awesome. A much as I am attached to all the teams following that era, those were the players I grew up with, and remain my favorites in many ways. What great memories to have!

[Texas Vike]

Qadry wasn't the Rocket that was his brother Raghib "Rocket" Ismail.

That's right... I sensed something was off.

Loved the anecdote of giving the 70s legends high-fives in Mankato. What a great memory. BTW, when I made the thread I wasn't necessarily thinking "plays" but literally "moments" so everything is legit--for example, just the other day when CC made the HOF and AD got MVP, that's a great Viking's moment. Personal moments count too. I figured the off-season is long and boring and this is a better exercise than bickering over minutia and speculations.

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My favorite moment was probably off-field. When I was around 11, my Dad's company sponsored the Pro Bowl so we were invited to a private dinner with the players every year (for about four or five years). I got to meet a ton of Vikings and get their autographs. As long as I didn't stand between them and the food, they were all really nice.

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Opening day 1995 I had a pre-game field pass. I took a bunch of pictures of the Vikings warming up and as they were headed back to the locker room, Jake Reed, tossed me his gloves. For my birthday a month later my Dad somehow got the gloves to be signed. No idea if the autograph is real but hey...it was awesome! I told Jake Reed about it on Twitter last year and he was all "No way! sweet man" with me.

[Mothman]

Opening day 1995 I had a pre-game field pass. I took a bunch of pictures of the Vikings warming up and as they were headed back to the locker room, Jake Reed, tossed me his gloves. For my birthday a month later my Dad somehow got the gloves to be signed. No idea if the autograph is real but hey...it was awesome! I told Jake Reed about it on Twitter last year and he was all "No way! sweet man" with me.

That's awesome!

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Reed was my main man until Moss showed up

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[John_Viveiros]

My personal favorite moment was Ahmad Rashad's hail mary catch against the Browns in 1980 to win the game. That was an absolutely amazing play.

For those of us who watched that game, the play before that was almost as amazing. The Vikes had the ball back at their 20 with no timeouts, and threw the hook and lateral to (hey, forgive me if I'm wrong, but it's a 32 year old memory) Joe Senser, who lateraled to Ted Brown, who took it somewhere near midfield and got out of bounds. Essentially, they stacked up two once-in-a-lifetime plays to win that game, because they weren't scoring on a hail mary from their own 20.

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For those of us who watched that game, the play before that was almost as amazing. The Vikes had the ball back at their 20 with no timeouts, and threw the hook and lateral to (hey, forgive me if I'm wrong, but it's a 32 year old memory) Joe Senser, who lateraled to Ted Brown, who took it somewhere near midfield and got out of bounds. Essentially, they stacked up two once-in-a-lifetime plays to win that game, because they weren't scoring on a hail mary from their own 20.

Its funny you say that, because I was arguing with myself whether to choose Ahmad Rashad's catch or that one.Now that I think about it, I could of just said that whole drive.

[Delaqure]

My favorite moment was Petersons single game record. Only because it was the only Viking game I have ever attended. My wife surprised my with a birthday gift of the game! So to be there was special enough, but to watch Peterson do it live was something special!

[Eliot]

http://scores.espn.go.com/nfl/recap?gameId=250925016

My first ever Vikings game.
And we beat the Saints

[J. Kapp 11]

That was a great moment!

This one is hard to beat:
http://www.nfl.com/videos/minnesota-vik ... vs-Vikings

There have been a bunch of great plays by Vikings like Alan Page, Adrian Peterson, Cris Carter, Moss, etc. that I simply loved. That Moss lateral to Williams is probably my favorite Moss moment.

Weird.

The title of the video says 1980. The URL says 1980.

But the little tag on the video itself says, "Dec. 28, 1975."

It was actually 1980.

Very unusual for NFL Network to get something like that wrong.