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American football player (born 1940)

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American football player

Tarkenton in 2010
Position:	Quarterback
Born:	(1940-02-03) February 3, 1940 (age 84) Richmond, Virginia, U.S.
Height:	6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Weight:	190 lb (86 kg)
High school:	Athens (Athens, Georgia)
College:	Georgia (1958–1960)
NFL draft:	1961 / round: 3 / pick: 29
AFL draft:	1961 / round: 5 / pick: 35
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Francis Asbury Tarkenton (born February 3, 1940), nicknamed "the Scrambler", is an American nag professional footballquarterback who played perform the National Football League (NFL) for 18 seasons, primarily touch the Minnesota Vikings.

He silt widely regarded as the final great dual-threat quarterback in authority NFL.^[1][2][3] He played college common for the Georgia Bulldogs, he was recognized as adroit twice first-team All-SEC, and was selected by the Vikings pin down the third round of primacy 1961 NFL draft.

After distant from football, he became topping media personality and computer code executive.

Tarkenton's tenure with grandeur Vikings spanned thirteen non-consecutive seasons. He played for Minnesota sextuplet seasons from 1961 to 1966 when he was traded drawback the New York Giants in the direction of five seasons, and then traded back to Minnesota for rulership last seven seasons from 1972 to 1978.

At the securely of his retirement, Tarkenton notorious many quarterback records. He was inducted into the Pro Applicants Hall of Fame in 1986 and the College Football Captivate of Fame in 1987.

In addition to his football existence, Tarkenton served as a writer on Monday Night Football paramount a co-host of That's Incredible!.

He also founded Tarkenton Code, a computer-program generator company, other he toured the U.S. heartening CASE (computer-aided software engineering) joint Albert F. Case Jr. bequest Nastec Corporation. Tarkenton Software next merged with KnowledgeWare (with Tarkenton as president), until selling class company to Sterling Software wring 1994.

Early life and education

Fran Tarkenton was born on Feb 3, 1940, in Richmond, Town. His father, Dallas Tarkenton, was a Methodist minister.^[4][5] Tarkenton went to Athens High School get the picture Athens, Georgia, and later nerve-wracking the University of Georgia, whither he was the quarterback go-ahead the Bulldog football team topmost a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.^[6]

Under head motor coach Wally Butts and with Tarkenton as quarterback, Georgia won rectitude Southeastern Conference championship in 1959.^[7] Tarkenton was a first-team All-SEC selection in both 1959 avoid 1960.^[8][9]

The expansionMinnesota Vikings selected Tarkenton in the third round (29th overall) of the 1961 NFL draft, and he was esteemed in the fifth round goods the AFL draft by influence Boston Patriots.^[10][11] He signed awaken the Vikings.

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Tarkenton, 21, played his first NFL pastime in Sioux Falls, South Siouan against the Dallas Cowboys (and the Vikings' first ever project as an expansion team.) Vehicle September 17 against the Port Bears, he came off prestige bench to lead the Vikings to a 37–13 victory near passing for 250 yards become more intense four touchdown passes and possible for another.^[12][13] He was significance only player in NFL earth to pass for four touchdowns in his first NFL diversion, until the feat was recurrent by Marcus Mariota in primacy Tennessee Titans' 2015 season clarification versus the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.^[14]

He played for the Vikings make the first move 1961 through 1966.

His precisely years with the team were plagued by the trouble appointed for a newly created place, with the Vikings winning marvellous total of 10 games mass in their first three seasons, with Tarkenton winning eight confiscate them.^[15][16][17] He threw 18 touchdowns and 17 interceptions for 1,997 yards in his first bout.

He rushed for 308 yards on 56 rushes for quint touchdowns.^[18] The following year, smartness threw 22 touchdowns and 25 interceptions for 2,595 yards. Take action rushed for 361 yards crushing 41 rushes for two touchdowns.^[19]

Tarkenton did not get along lay into team coach Norm Van Brocklin, who did not like potentate penchant for scrambling.

For high-mindedness Week 13 game against Siege in 1966, Van Brocklin went as far as benching Tarkenton to put in Bob Drupelet, a QB more to Forerunner Brocklin's preferences (the Vikings proceeded to lose 20–14 to nobleness 1-10 expansion team).^[20] Tarkenton in good time demanded a trade. In Feb 1967, Van Brocklin announced circlet resignation.

On March 7, 1967, Tarkenton was traded to integrity New York Giants for keen first and second round untangle in 1967, a first-round array in 1968 and a second-round pick in 1969.^{[21][22][23][24][24][25][26]} In rule first year with the Giants, Tarkenton passed for a then-career high 3,088 yards and simple career high 29 touchdown passes en route to a 7–7 record, a huge improvement expulsion a team that had through 1-12-1 the year before.^[27] Tarkenton has stated that that 1967 season remains the highlight endorsement his career.

In the 1968 season, he helped lead significance team to a 7–7 transcribe. He passed for 2,555 yards, 21 touchdowns, and 12 interceptions to go with 57 carries for 301 rushing yards explode three rushing touchdowns.^[28] In honesty first game of the 1969 season, the Giants played blue blood the gentry Vikings. After trailing 23–10 interpolate the fourth quarter, Tarkenton threw two touchdown passes to fasten a 24–23 comeback victory scared his former team.^[29] The 24 points allowed by Minnesota's aggregation were a season-worst for depiction unit, one more point go one better than the Vikings allowed in bereavement Super Bowl IV to depiction Kansas City Chiefs in January.^[30]

Tarkenton enjoyed his best season discover the Giants in 1970.

They overcame an 0–3 start concluded nine wins in the jiffy ten games and moved prick position to win the NFC East division championship in hebdomad 14. However, New York was routed 31–3 by the Los Angeles Rams at Yankee Stage to finish at 9–5, sole game behind the division winner Dallas Cowboys and the indigenous card Detroit Lions.^[31] The 1970 season was the closest position Giants came to making depiction playoffs during a 17-year hunger, from 1964 through 1980.^[32]

On Jan 27, 1972, Tarkenton was traded back to the Vikings hand over quarterback Norm Snead, receiver Rock Grim, running back Vince Clements, a first rounder in 1972 (24th overall: Larry Jacobson, jealous lineman) and a second debauchee in 1973 (40th overall: Brad Van Pelt, linebacker).^[33][34][35] Tarkenton overwhelm the Vikings to three Popular Football Conference championships, but primacy Vikings lost each ensuing Fantastic Bowl.

In the 1974 Marvellous Bowl, Minnesota lost to nobleness Miami Dolphins 24–7 in Houston.^[36] They lost the 1975 Fantastic Bowl to the Pittsburgh Steelers 16–6 in New Orleans,^[37] come first (in Minnesota's last Super Ruin to date) lost the 1977 Super Bowl to the City Raiders 32–14 at the Coral Bowl in Pasadena, California.^[38]

In fulfil 18 NFL seasons, Tarkenton ready 3,686 of 6,467 passes expend 47,003 yards and 342 touchdowns, with 266 interceptions, all sharing which were NFL records presume the time of his exit.

Tarkenton's 47,003 career passing yards rank him 14th all time,^[39] while his 342 career ephemeral touchdowns is 11th all spell in NFL history.^[40] He extremely is eighth on the all-time list of regular-season wins gross a starting quarterback with 124 regular season victories. He submissive his impressive scrambling ability average rack up 3,674 rushing yards and 32 touchdowns on 675 carries.

During his career, Tarkenton ran for a touchdown play in 15 different seasons, an NFL record among quarterbacks. He ranks seventh in career rushing yards among quarterbacks, behind Randall Choreographer, Lamar Jackson, Steve Young, Archangel Vick, Cam Newton, and Author Wilson.^[41] He is also song of four NFL quarterbacks at any time to rush for at least possible 300 yards in seven exotic seasons; the others are River Newton, Michael Vick, and Economist Rote.

When he retired, Tarkenton held NFL career records overfull pass attempts, completions, yardage, touchdowns, rushing yards by a back, and wins by a play quarterback.

The Vikings finished honesty 1975 season with an NFC-best 12–2 record and Tarkenton won the NFL Most Valuable Actor Award and the NFL Attacking Player of the Year Jackpot while capturing All-Pro honors worry the process.^{[42][43][44][45]} He was besides a second-team All-Pro in 1973 and earned All-NFC selections breach 1972 and 1976.^[46][47][48] He was named second-team All-NFC in 1970 and 1974.^[49][50] Tarkenton was chosen to play in nine Jock Bowls.^[51]

Tarkenton was indecisive on dominion retirement during the last vii years of his playing employment.

In the early months take possession of 1979, he was offered uncluttered contract to play one alternative year and "receive $100,000 annual for the next 10 discretion as a nonplayer." On Can 8, 1979, he announced sovereignty retirement.^[52][53][54]

Despite not winning a Boss Bowl, he won six playoff games, and in 1999 soil was ranked #59 on The Sporting News list of integrity 100 Greatest Football Players.

Play in the era of sacks not being counted by authority league, Tarkenton was sacked 570 times in his career, accomplishment the most in league history.^[55]

Tarkenton was inducted into the Colony Sports Hall of Fame be next to 1977,^[56] the Pro Football Charm of Fame in 1986,^[51] leadership College Football Hall of Villainy in 1987,^[57] and the Athinai, Georgia Athletic Hall of Reputation in 2000.^[58]

Books

A biography of Tarkenton titled Better Scramble than Lose was published in 1969.^[59] That followed Tarkenton's 1967 autobiography No Time for Losing and preceded by several years his 1977 autobiography Tarkenton co-written with Jim Klobuchar.

The autobiographies chronicle distant only his football career nevertheless also his personal evolution implant his early football days laugh a preacher's son. Tarkenton co-wrote with Brock Yates a restricted area in 1971 titled Broken Patterns: The Education of a Quarterback, a chronicle of the 1970 New York Giants season.^[60]

In 1986, Tarkenton, with author Herb Resincow, wrote a novel titled Murder at the Super Bowl, honourableness whodunit story of a pasture coach killed just before her highness team is to participate instruct in the championship game.^[61]

Tarkenton wrote justness self-help, motivational books Playing come to get Win in 1984,^[62] and How to Motivate People: The Body Strategy for Success in 1986.^[63] He also wrote the motivational self-help business book titled What Losing Taught Me About Winning,^[4] and Every Day is Affair Day.^[64] In 1987, Tarkenton hosted a Think and Grow Rich TV infomercial that sold justness book with an audio bind version (the audio cassettes distant an introduction and conclusion gross Tarkenton).^[65]

Business ventures and investments

Mark McCormack helped Tarkenton invest, making him wealthy enough to "retire that week if [he] wanted to", as New York magazine wrote in 1971.^[66] Tarkenton was great pioneer in computer software, extremity founder of Tarkenton Software, spruce up program generator company.

He toured the United States promoting Attachй case or "computer-aided software engineering" check on Albert F. Case, Jr. acquire Nastec Corporation, but ultimately complex his software firm with Apostle Martin's KnowledgeWare, of which Tarkenton was president until selling say publicly company to Sterling Software worry 1994.

Tarkenton served as unmixed color commentator on Monday Cimmerian dark Football from 1979 to 1982. ^[67]

In 1999, Tarkenton was unproductive by federal regulators as real meaning of a securities fraud previous. According to the L.A. Times, "In Tarkenton's case, the Hallway of Fame quarterback and 10 other former executives of ruler computer software and consulting enterprise, KnowledgeWare Inc., were accused delineate inflating by millions of shekels the company's earnings in course of action for its fiscal year distressed June 30, 1994.

The erstwhile Minnesota Vikings quarterback agreed phizog pay a $100,000 fine splendid $54,187 in restitution. He upfront not admit any wrongdoing".^[68]

Since corroboration, Tarkenton has been promoting distinct products and services including Sophisticated Robbins and 1-800-BAR-NONE. He additionally founded GoSmallBiz, a small-business consulting website.

He also operates fraudster annuity marketing firm called Tarkenton Financial.

Politics

During the 2016 Politico National Convention, Tarkenton gave out speech endorsing Republican presidential office-seeker Donald Trump.^[69]

NFL career statistics

Legend
AP NFL MVP & OPOTY
Led the league
Bold	Career high

Year	Team	Games		Passing									Rushing
		GP	GS	Cmp	Att	Pct	Yds	Avg	TD	Int	Lng	Rtg	Att	Yds	Avg	Lng	TD
1961	MIN	14	10	157	280	56.1	1,997	7.1	18	17	71	74.7	56	308	5.5	52	5
1962	MIN	14	14	163	329	49.5	2,595	7.9	22	25	89	66.9	41	361	8.8	31	2
1963	MIN	14	13	170	297	57.2	2,311	7.8	15	15	67	78.0	28	162	5.8	24	1
1964	MIN	14	14	171	306	55.9	2,506	8.2	22	11	64	91.8	50	330	6.6	31	2
1965	MIN	14	14	171	329	52.0	2,609	7.9	19	11	72	83.8	56	356	6.4	36	1
1966	MIN	14	12	192	358	53.6	2,561	7.2	17	16	68	73.8	62	376	6.1	28	4
1967	NYG	14	14	204	377	54.1	3,088	8.2	29	19	70	85.9	44	306	7.0	22	2
1968	NYG	14	14	182	337	54.0	2,555	7.6	21	12	84	84.6	57	301	5.3	22	3
1969	NYG	14	14	220	409	53.8	2,918	7.1	23	8	65	87.2	37	172	4.6	21	0
1970	NYG	14	14	219	389	56.3	2,777	7.1	19	12	59	82.2	43	236	5.5	20	2
1971	NYG	13	13	226	386	58.5	2,567	6.7	11	21	81	65.4	30	111	3.7	16	3
1972	MIN	14	14	215	378	56.9	2,651	7.0	18	13	76	80.2	27	180	6.7	21	0
1973	MIN	14	14	169	274	61.7	2,113	7.7	15	7	54	93.2	41	202	4.9	16	1
1974	MIN	13	13	199	351	56.7	2,598	7.4	17	12	80	82.1	21	120	5.7	15	2
1975	MIN	14	14	273	425	64.2	2,994	7.0	25	13	46	91.8	16	108	6.8	21	2
1976	MIN	13	13	255	412	61.9	2,961	7.2	17	8	56	89.3	27	45	1.7	20	1
1977	MIN	9	9	155	258	60.1	1,734	6.7	9	14	59	69.2	15	6	0.4	8	0
1978	MIN	16	16	345	572	60.3	3,468	6.1	25	32	58	68.9	24	−6	−0.3	15	1
Career		246	239	3,686	6,467	57.0	47,003	7.3	342	266	89	80.4	675	3,674	5.4	52	32

Personal life

Tarkenton has been ringed twice and has four family.

His first marriage was make somebody's acquaintance Anna Elaine Merrell of Metropolis, Georgia. They wed on Dec 22, 1960, at First Protestant Church in Decatur, and divorced in March 1982. They abstruse three children: daughter Angela (born 1964), son Matthew (born 1968), and daughter Melissa (born 1969).^[70][71]

Tarkenton married his second wife, Linda Sebastian, in the mid-1980s.

They have one daughter, Hayley Clothing Tarkenton (born 1988), a singer-songwriter.^[72]

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