Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode of Purple Insider, Matthew Collar here.

And joining me on the show is Chad Israelson, who has written a book, Kings of the North,

about Minnesota Vikings history, a tremendous book.

And so we bring on Chad to talk Vikings history with the passing of the great Jim Marshall.

And also, Chad has another book coming out very soon on quarterbacks, which seems like we could probably connect to what's going on today.

So welcome back to the show, Chad.

Great to have you.

I really don't want to only have you on the show when someone awesome passes away for the Vikings, but you give such incredible perspective. I want you to give me your reaction to the passing of Jim Marshall. And let's just start the conversation with to you as a Vikings historian, what he means in Vikings history.

Sure. Well, first, thank you very much, Matthew, for having means in Vikings history. Sure.

Well, first, thank you very much, Matthew, for having me back.

Really appreciate that.

Yeah, obviously, I've been thinking about Jim Marshall, you know,

for the past 24 hours or so.

And I really thought that, you know,

if you were to distill everything about the Minnesota Vikings down into one player, you know, that basic element would be Jim Marshall. You know, if the aliens came from outer space and, you know, they wanted to know about the Vikings, you would start with Jim Marshall. That's, the basic building block. He had the fortune, good

fortune of timing. He came to the Vikings in 1961, and it's really quite amazing, but I was

thinking about it too that it was 1980 before the franchise played a game that

didn't include Jim Marshall and it's 270 consecutive starts regular season

19 more in the playoffs and watching the tributes I saw the the raw footage

from Chuck Foreman's Fox 9 interview yesterday.

It's about 15 minutes long.

Just all the things that he had to say.

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