{"id":429708,"date":"2023-03-12T02:02:55","date_gmt":"2023-03-12T07:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=429708"},"modified":"2023-03-11T23:59:23","modified_gmt":"2023-03-12T04:59:23","slug":"vikings-legend-bud-grant-dies-age-95","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/vikings-legend-bud-grant-dies-age-95\/","title":{"rendered":"Vikings&#8217; legend Bud Grant dies age 95"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The stoic Hall of Fame coach Bud Grant who took the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/team\/minnesota-vikings\/\">Minnesota Vikings<\/a> and their mighty Purple People Eaters defense to four Super Bowls in eight years died Saturday age 95.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo single individual more defined the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/team\/minnesota-vikings\/\">Minnesota Vikings<\/a> than Bud Grant. A once-in-a-lifetime man, Bud will forever be synonymous with success, toughness, the North and the Vikings,\u201d Vikings owners Zygi Wilf and Mark Wilf said in a joint statement distributed by the team. \u201cIn short, he was the Vikings.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We are absolutely devastated to announce legendary Minnesota Vikings head coach and Hall of Famer Bud Grant has passed away this morning at age 95.<\/p>\n<p>We, like all Vikings and NFL fans, are shocked and saddened by this terrible news. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/z2NNlNAY44\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/z2NNlNAY44<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Minnesota Vikings (@Vikings) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Vikings\/status\/1634604808320557056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 11, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nGrant was known for his cap and a steely sideline gaze that became synonymous with his teams. He guided the Vikings from 1967-85, with a one-year hiatus in 1984, on his way to a 158-96-5 record with 11 division championships in 18 seasons. When he retired, Grant was eighth on the NFL\u2019s all-time victory list.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The stoic Hall of Fame coach Bud Grant who took the Minnesota Vikings and their mighty Purple People Eaters defense to four Super [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":429709,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17167,17324],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[18175,17873],"acf":{"announce":"\"He was the Vikings\", team owners shared on social media","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/429708"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/429708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429708"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=429708"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=429708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}