Fran Tarkenton
speaker
180 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 3 Dec
Fran Tarkenton’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 2 in all, peaking in Dec 2025 with 2.
Appearances
It's crazy.
But television has made all that work, as you know.
Redskins?
Oh, I'm a Viking.
You're a Viking.
I grew up.
In Washington, D.C., until I was 10 years old, I was a Redskins fan.
I was a Maryland football fan.
I moved to Athens, Georgia, and I became a Georgia Bulldog fan, and that's where I played.
Well, I don't know.
I was a Pentecostal holiness.
He was a Pentecostal holiness preacher.
And my mother was a preacher.
And we couldn't do any work on Sundays.
Somehow they allowed me to come to Minnesota to play for the Vikings, and we played on Sundays.
And my very first game, we played the Chicago Bears.
and the Monsters of the Midway and George Hallis was the founder of the National Football League.
He was the coach of the Bears.
He owned the Bears and so forth.
And we were 28-point underdogs because we were a new expansion team.
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