Draconator Posted March 11, 2023 Share Posted March 11, 2023 (edited) Edited March 11, 2023 by Draconator 2 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJB Posted March 11, 2023 Share Posted March 11, 2023 Damn the Vikings head coach last year was 95?!!?!?! No wonder Kirk Cousins is who he is. (All jokes people RIP) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draconator Posted March 11, 2023 Author Share Posted March 11, 2023 1 minute ago, DJB said: Damn the Vikings head coach last year was 95?!!?!?! No wonder Kirk Cousins is who he is. (All jokes people RIP) I knew something like this was going to happen. Didn't take long. Proud of you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Let's Go Buffalo Posted March 11, 2023 Share Posted March 11, 2023 Thanks for the Post, Draconator. Bud Grant was a damn good coach. R.I.P. Coach Grant, and thoughts and prayers are with the family. 2 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledInIllinois Posted March 11, 2023 Share Posted March 11, 2023 17 minutes ago, DJB said: Damn the Vikings head coach last year was 95?!!?!?! No wonder Kirk Cousins is who he is. (All jokes people RIP) 😏 I am taking legendary HCs are like Marines. There are no ex-Marines. Just Marines... 1 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Turk Posted March 11, 2023 Share Posted March 11, 2023 (edited) Still remember him walking out onto a field when it was like below zero temps at 80 years old in a short sleeve shirt when the Vikings honored him during their time they played outdoors for a year or two... That dude was a real one...RIP. Edited March 11, 2023 by Big Turk 4 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3rdand12 Posted March 11, 2023 Share Posted March 11, 2023 This Man was one of the Coaches who allowed me to respect NFL football and its machinations. Just a classic. And one hell of a good guy RIP Bud 🙂 1 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ridgewaycynic2013 Posted March 11, 2023 Share Posted March 11, 2023 (edited) He played for Winnipeg in the CFL, and later coached them to 4 Grey Cup wins in the 1950s and 60s. * Had he not gone on to coaching in the NFL, would probably have been a district manager for Canadian Tire...😇😉 Edited March 11, 2023 by Ridgewaycynic2013 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoCal Deek Posted March 11, 2023 Share Posted March 11, 2023 Always seemed like a class act. His resume appears to be a lot like Marv Leavy. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CowgirlsFan Posted March 11, 2023 Share Posted March 11, 2023 RIP Thank you for your contribution to the game of football.🏈 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albany,n.y. Posted March 11, 2023 Share Posted March 11, 2023 (edited) 2 hours ago, SoCal Deek said: Always seemed like a class act. His resume appears to be a lot like Marv Leavy. I hope you are a victim of a bad auto spell corrector. Edited March 11, 2023 by Albany,n.y. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillsPride12 Posted March 11, 2023 Share Posted March 11, 2023 They don't make them like that anymore. Old school badass. RIP Coach 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoCal Deek Posted March 11, 2023 Share Posted March 11, 2023 4 minutes ago, Albany,n.y. said: I hope you are a victim of a bad auto spell corrector. Sorry…thumb typing. But my comment still stands. Both coached in the CFL apparently (I didn’t know Grant had). And obviously both took multiple teams to the Super Bowl without winning it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
\GoBillsInDallas/ Posted March 11, 2023 Share Posted March 11, 2023 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
\GoBillsInDallas/ Posted March 11, 2023 Share Posted March 11, 2023 Also, member of the 1950 NBA champion Minneapolis Lakers: https://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/MNL/1950.html 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beast Posted March 11, 2023 Share Posted March 11, 2023 RIP to a great coach. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aristocrat Posted March 11, 2023 Share Posted March 11, 2023 5 hours ago, Draconator said: I am shocked! Wonder what happened? Just devastated by this completely unexpected news 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neo Posted March 12, 2023 Share Posted March 12, 2023 No jokes. Nothing clever. RIP, Bud … another big part of my youth. A good man, from any point of view I have. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QLBillsFan Posted March 12, 2023 Share Posted March 12, 2023 4 hours ago, aristocrat said: I am shocked! Wonder what happened? Just devastated by this completely unexpected news So hysterical 🙄Yes he certainly lived a long live. Doesn’t mean he can’t be honored. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuvian Posted March 12, 2023 Share Posted March 12, 2023 a man among men and a life well lived 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Livinginthepast Posted March 12, 2023 Share Posted March 12, 2023 A lot of parallels with Marv here. Both around the same age, both coached and won Grey Cups in the CFL and both lost 4 SBs. Both HOF in both leagues. Two Legends. I just hope unlike Grant, the Bills can win a SB with Marv alive. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T master Posted March 12, 2023 Share Posted March 12, 2023 (edited) Great coach i use to love watching his teams they were always good games and some of the players he had were great players too ! RIP coach thanks for the memories !! The purple people eaters were a great D !!! Edited March 12, 2023 by T master 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aristocrat Posted March 12, 2023 Share Posted March 12, 2023 11 hours ago, QLBillsFan said: So hysterical 🙄Yes he certainly lived a long live. Doesn’t mean he can’t be honored. can’t be honored? I was just pointing out it was a bit funny to be shocked by a 95 year old guys passing. I’d be shocked if the headline read bud grant died fighting off great whites while scuba diving. He lived a long great life and will be celebrated as such. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob in STL Posted March 12, 2023 Share Posted March 12, 2023 RIP Coach. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albany,n.y. Posted March 12, 2023 Share Posted March 12, 2023 20 hours ago, SoCal Deek said: Sorry…thumb typing. But my comment still stands. Both coached in the CFL apparently (I didn’t know Grant had). And obviously both took multiple teams to the Super Bowl without winning it. They also have both lived well into their 90s until Bud passed yesterday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QLBillsFan Posted March 12, 2023 Share Posted March 12, 2023 2 hours ago, aristocrat said: can’t be honored? I was just pointing out it was a bit funny to be shocked by a 95 year old guys passing. I’d be shocked if the headline read bud grant died fighting off great whites while scuba diving. He lived a long great life and will be celebrated as such. Nobody was shocked but you. Whatever you’re clever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aristocrat Posted March 12, 2023 Share Posted March 12, 2023 33 minutes ago, QLBillsFan said: Nobody was shocked but you. Whatever you’re clever. whoever wrote the tweet said they were shocked 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Otreply Posted March 12, 2023 Share Posted March 12, 2023 RIP, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrPJax Posted March 12, 2023 Share Posted March 12, 2023 This is sad news; i grew up developing my love for football and the NFL watching and listening to coaches like Bud. Guys were great leaders of men, back when men were men with no “toxic masculinity” , just great husbands and fathers with work ethics that were examples of how to succeed in all phases of life. We’ve lost strong role models as we’ve seen the breakdown of traditional families and Bud Grant was by all accounts a good role model and was an example of the great that the NFL was part of as the league grew around legends of the time. Landry was a man like that as well, with a larger than life persona. Lombardi , Hank Stram, Madden , and of course Marv Levy are all examples of what i remembered to be good about the NFL and were some of the great coaches i grew up watching as the NFL blossomed over the years. I don’t mean to leave other great coaches or owners out , i just mentioned a few i remember seeing as a kid /teenager with limited games to watch as i became a fan and got hooked on the NFL as a great hobby and interest for most of my life. Those were some great Sundays watching games with my father, who was a Joe Namath fan, but still was such a great father that he went with me to SB28 in Atlanta because i was an obsessed Bills fan and he went with me hoping the Bills would finally win it all as I had followed them starting way back in ‘63. Losing a guy like Grant , even tho I was never a Vikings fan, feels like losing another small piece of the carefree time as a kid when sports seemed so important because life’s realities hadn’t started to hit very hard yet and it was usually just about having fun! It will really mark the end of that time for me when Marv passes as it will mark the end of a great era and time in my life when the NFL really began to become more of a business as free agency came in and players rarely stayed with one team for a career. RIP Bud, and thanks for being a part of my growing up and growing into a lifelong NFL and Bills fan , and thanks for being a part of the GOOD nostalgia the NFL was built on before it became largely “ me” oriented, where now hours are devoted to hearing about guys getting their bag and we are focused more on cap space than following a guys career development with our favorite team. Losing a guy like Grant is losing a great coach and great man, but for me it also signals another small piece passing of a simpler time as a fan when you knew every guy on the roster of your team for several years, a coach was around long enough to lose 4 super bowls, and talk was about football and not contracts and cap space. It’s another part of the “sucks to get old” reality that football provided a great escape from ! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paup 1995MVP Posted March 12, 2023 Share Posted March 12, 2023 5 hours ago, aristocrat said: can’t be honored? I was just pointing out it was a bit funny to be shocked by a 95 year old guys passing. I’d be shocked if the headline read bud grant died fighting off great whites while scuba diving. He lived a long great life and will be celebrated as such. That is one of the funniest things I have ever read on here. My girlfriend and I were in stitches reading that. Great comment. Was he supposed to live to 110? He was a great coach, and a real solid solid human being. I remember games as a kid from Metropolitan Stadium. It was like watching football at the North Pole. RIP Bud. You were what football and life were all about! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marvin Posted March 12, 2023 Share Posted March 12, 2023 Great coach. Marv Levy reminded me a lot of him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillsPride12 Posted March 12, 2023 Share Posted March 12, 2023 (edited) 2 hours ago, DrPJax said: This is sad news; i grew up developing my love for football and the NFL watching and listening to coaches like Bud. Guys were great leaders of men, back when men were men with no “toxic masculinity” , just great husbands and fathers with work ethics that were examples of how to succeed in all phases of life. We’ve lost strong role models as we’ve seen the breakdown of traditional families and Bud Grant was by all accounts a good role model and was an example of the great that the NFL was part of as the league grew around legends of the time. Landry was a man like that as well, with a larger than life persona. Lombardi , Hank Stram, Madden , and of course Marv Levy are all examples of what i remembered to be good about the NFL and were some of the great coaches i grew up watching as the NFL blossomed over the years. I don’t mean to leave other great coaches or owners out , i just mentioned a few i remember seeing as a kid /teenager with limited games to watch as i became a fan and got hooked on the NFL as a great hobby and interest for most of my life. Those were some great Sundays watching games with my father, who was a Joe Namath fan, but still was such a great father that he went with me to SB28 in Atlanta because i was an obsessed Bills fan and he went with me hoping the Bills would finally win it all as I had followed them starting way back in ‘63. Losing a guy like Grant , even tho I was never a Vikings fan, feels like losing another small piece of the carefree time as a kid when sports seemed so important because life’s realities hadn’t started to hit very hard yet and it was usually just about having fun! It will really mark the end of that time for me when Marv passes as it will mark the end of a great era and time in my life when the NFL really began to become more of a business as free agency came in and players rarely stayed with one team for a career. RIP Bud, and thanks for being a part of my growing up and growing into a lifelong NFL and Bills fan , and thanks for being a part of the GOOD nostalgia the NFL was built on before it became largely “ me” oriented, where now hours are devoted to hearing about guys getting their bag and we are focused more on cap space than following a guys career development with our favorite team. Losing a guy like Grant is losing a great coach and great man, but for me it also signals another small piece passing of a simpler time as a fan when you knew every guy on the roster of your team for several years, a coach was around long enough to lose 4 super bowls, and talk was about football and not contracts and cap space. It’s another part of the “sucks to get old” reality that football provided a great escape from ! Well said! I deeply miss what the NFL used to be Edited March 12, 2023 by BillsPride12 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sargent Hulka Posted March 13, 2023 Share Posted March 13, 2023 On 3/11/2023 at 5:17 PM, \GoBillsInDallas/ said: Bud Grant at the end of the piece: "You gotta be able to live with losing. That's the hardest thing; to get over it. I mean, you can't let it eat you up,..." Sage advice, and not just football. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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