Pro Football Hall of Famer Fran Tarkenton is one of the greatest players to play the quarterback position in the NFL. He dominated the 1960s and 70s and helped the Minnesota Vikings and New York ...

Sixty-six years later, Fran Tarkenton remembers every detail about his college football debut. It came at Memorial Stadium, as Texas’ stadium was called then. And it happened when Tarkenton put ...

Tarkenton's NFL debut foreshadowed a Hall of Fame career -- he came off the bench, threw four touchdowns and scored one on the ground in a comeback win over the Chicago Bears. While the Vikings ...

Fran Tarkenton arrived in New York City exhausted, dispirited and maybe a little confused. Three days earlier, the Minnesota quarterback had lost to the John Madden-coached Oakland Raiders in the ...

Best No. 29 pick: Georgia quarterback Fran Tarkenton by the Minnesota Vikings in 1961 Thirteen of the NFL’s teams have struck the mother lode in the draft. They picked a quarterback whose ...