RIP Jerry Burns

[UPChip]

Doing coach rants before coach rants were fun.

And this was after a win!

 

[dixiehack]

****ers

 

[Alma]

A great old school guy.

 

[Scout]

I had never seen that.

****ers

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

“He got to heaven and the ****ers are booing him.”

 

[Octave]

He really did look like Jack Frost, and was around during the Met Stadium years.

A good coach but his teams wasted a lot of talent.

 

[User 149557]

Jerry Burns looked and sounded like the human equivalent of three packs a day.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Doing coach rants before coach rants were fun.

And this was after a win!

That last “****ers” really put it over the top.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Oh, and this is the game he’s referring to. Rich Karlis kicked seven field goals, five of them inside 30 yards.

Los Angeles Rams at Minnesota Vikings - November 5th, 1989 | Pro-Football-Reference.com

 

[mpcincal]

Oh, and this is the game he’s referring to. Rich Karlis kicked seven field goals, five of them inside 30 yards.

Los Angeles Rams at Minnesota Vikings - November 5th, 1989 | Pro-Football-Reference.com

Oh, I remember that. It was the first OT game ever to be decided by a safety, IIRC.

 

[Elliotte Friedman]

Oh, I remember that. It was the first OT game ever to be decided by a safety, IIRC.

Mike Merriweather blocked a punt through the end zone, and thought it was touchback. He didn't think they won. Was pretty funny

 

[Songbird]

Doing coach rants before coach rants were fun.

And this was after a win!

As good as it ****ing ever got, and ever ****ing will.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

Let's Remember The NFL's Greatest Forgotten Coaching Rant

 

[cyclingwriter2]

Had no idea burns had been on the Packers staff for the first two Super Bowls.

 

[mateen]

The underachievement thing is right - the '88 and '89 Vikings were awfully talented (although not at QB), and all they could muster were 11-5 and 10-6 records and two asskickings in the playoffs by San Francisco. Pretty much the same team collapsed to 6-10 in 1990 after Keith Millard's knee exploded.

Viking loyalists are again starting their periodic whining that Burns and not Bill Walsh should have gotten credit for the West Coast Offense and using short passes to running backs. If you believe Paul Zimmerman, which you usually could on stuff like this, Walsh actually did it first not in SF but in Cincinnati in the early 70s, when Greg Cook got hurt and they had to adjust to Virgil Carter's weaker arm.

 

[Machine Head]

Back in the day, had to turn your head sideways:

Vikings bench Jackson, turn to Frerotte at QB

 

[Octave]

Mateen is right. 1988 Vikings had a hell-raising defense and a plus-23 turnover differential, competed with quality opponents and then got their doors blown off in the playoffs.

Burns was seen as a safe in-house successor to Bud Grant after the Vikings foolishly handed the job to ex-Marine Les Steckel in 1984.
The club went 3-13 with Grant's old guys, Steckel was fired and Grant came in for a year in 1985 to right the ship.
They went 8-8, Grant retired again and Burns came on in 1986 with a full cupboard.
Minnesota was very close to going to the Super Bowl in 1987.
If you recall there was a turnover on downs inside the Washington red zone late in the game.

 

[Elliotte Friedman]

If Darrin Nelson had caught the ball, he still would've been shy of the end zone. Not that I'm bitter or anything

 

[Octave]

The week before it, anyone would have said Anthony Carter had one of the best playoff games ever. He ran through the 49ers at silent movie speed in that game.

 

[mateen]

To hear Minnesotans talk Nelson cost them a Super Bowl berth; in reality had he caught it that just gets them to OT.

The New Orleans and San Francisco playoff games were bizarre. They'd lost to Washington in the season finale and needed another team to lose to even make the playoffs; the Vikings then proceeded to play perfect games for two straight weeks and cause Joe Montana to get benched.