and Well, welcome to a very special episode of Purple Insider. Matthew Collar here joining me, Scott

Corps announced, former teammate of mine at 1500 ESPN, and the biggest Joe Cap fan I have ever met in my life and with

Joe Cap passing away at the age of 85 I wanted to bring you on Scott to talk

about Joe Cap's incredible football life.

Even just reading his Wikipedia is really a journey for that man,

but a sad day in Viking Land not too long after losing Bud Grant now losing Joe Cap as well.

It is sad. You know, I'm one of these people though that when I'm a, if I lose close friends,

I get sad when I when I lose somebody who's I admired

it's just a nice opportunity he lived a nice long life 85 we know he was suffering with

dementia late in his life and how he you know he talked about that he suspected it was had to do with he was

suffering with dementia late in his life and how he talked about that he suspected it was had to do with

CTE and he's gonna he's donated his brain to to science so that'll be

done and he certainly wouldn't surprise me the way he played. I mean he was putting his he was as much a full back as he was a quarterback and but when I really felt like I lost Joe Cap. Was in 1970 because the first Vikings game I ever watched

was the 1968 playoff game,

the first playoff game the Vikings ever played

against the Baltimore Colts.

And I was, I was 1968, so I was only eight years old.

I'd already become kind of a sports fan.

I'd saved up my money because we had one TV and I saved up my 50 cents a week, lounge. my

money because we had one TV and I saved up my 50 cents a week allowance or whatever it was back then

and I think my folks actually, except bought it my own TV for $50. I think I

probably saved up like 10 and my folks threw in 40 but whatever I don't remember I thought I bought it myself.

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