The Great Fran Tarkenton In The House!

Boomer & Gio

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🗓️ 2 December 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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The Hall of Fame quarterback joined us.

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0:00.0	Joining us in studio right now, it is a pleasure to have college football Hall of Famer and pro football Hall of Famer, Fran Tarkington, in studio with us, of course, former New York Giant, as well as the Minnesota Vikings, and just got to make sure the microphone is there.
0:16.4	So good morning, Fran. How are you? Nice to have you with us. Oh, I'm glad to be back in the big city. I love playing here.
0:24.3	Yeah.
0:24.6	We didn't have very good teams back.
0:27.0	Well, we don't have them either right now.
0:28.3	No, you don't have them either now.
0:29.7	I love being here and playing in here, and I come back every year in a couple weeks a year.
0:35.0	So I'm glad to be back again.
0:36.9	So you were my dad's quarterback.
0:38.9	So I grew up here.
0:40.1	Yep.
0:40.4	I think you were here of 67, 68, right?
0:43.3	69 when the Jets won the Super Bowl, right?
0:45.2	That's right.
0:45.9	So you were the quarterback of his team and you guys are pretty middle and pretty average.
0:50.6	We were worse than that.
0:52.1	We did, we had a couple of good years, but we had no players, no coach.
0:59.2	Who was your coach?
1:00.5	Ali Sherman, who's the sweetest guy that ever lived.
1:03.7	Okay.
1:04.1	I loved Ali Sherman.
1:05.3	And then after Ali, they used to say, goodbye, Ali, goodbye.
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