Coach Bud Grant of the Minnesota Vikings, posed with the Super Bowl trophy in Houston on Friday, Jan. 11, 1974. Shula won last year and hopes to repeat in game against the Vikings at Rice Stadium on January 13. Grant hopes for his first win on his second try for pro football's top title. (CK/Associated Press)

Minnesota Vikings head coach Bud Grant talks with Hall of Fame quarterback Fran Tarkenton (10) during the Vikings 24-7 loss to the Miami Dolphins in Super Bowl VIII on January 13, 1974 at Rice Stadium in Houston, Texas. (NFL Photos/Associated Press)

Bud Grant, head coach of the Minnesota Vikings is pictured in New York City on June 26, 1973. (Marty Lederhandler/Associated Press)

Minnesota Vikings Hall of Fame head coach Bud Grant in 1970. (NFL Photos/Associated Press)

Minnesota Vikings tight end Bob Tucker (38) talks with head coach Bud Grant during the Vikings 27-21 overtime loss to the Los Angeles Rams on December 2, 1979 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, California. (NFL Photos/Associated Press)

Minnesota Vikings head football coach Leslie Frazier, left, applauds former Vikings Hall of Fame coach Bud Grant as he prepared to speak at a news conference Tuesday, May 10, 2011 in Arden Hills, Minn., where the Vikings announced a deal with Ramsey County to collaborate on a $1.1 billion retractable-roof football stadium on the site of the old Army ammunitions plant in Arden Hills. (Jim Mone/Associated Press)

Former Minnesota Vikings Hall of Fame coach Bud Grant addresses a news conference Tuesday, May 10, 2011 in Arden Hills, Minn., after the announcement that the Vikings NFL team had a deal with Ramsey County to collaborate on a $1.1 billion retractable-roof football stadium to be built on the site of the former Army ammunitions plant in Arden Hills. (Jim Mone/Associated Press)

Minnesota coach Bud Grant and quarterback Fran Tarkenton watch the Miami Dolphins move the ball against the Vikings in first half of the Super Bowl in Houston, Sunday, Jan. 13, 1974. (Harry Cabluck/Associated Press)

Miami coach Don Shula, the winner, is rather grim while the loser, Minnesota coach Bud Grant, has a smile as they meet in the Rice Stadium tunnel following the Super Bowl game on Sunday, Jan. 13, 1974 in Houston, Texas. Shula's Miami Dolphins defeated the Vikings, 24-7. (Harry Cabluck/Associated Press)

Minnesota Vikings coach Bud Grant shows his concern as he watches the Vikings perform against the Pittsburgh Steelers in the last quarter of Super Bowl IX, Jan. 12, 1975, in New Orleans. (Jack Thornell/Associated Press)

Minnesota Vikings coach Bud Grant after he came out of retirement to become coach again in Dec., 1984. (Jim Mone/Associated Press)

Minnesota Vikings head coach Bud Grant, right, ponders a question after Vikings general manager Mike Lynn, center, announced that Grant had resigned as head coach and would be replaced by assistant coach Jerry Burns, left in Eden Prairie, Minn., on Jan. 6, 1986. The Monday announcement was Grant's second resignation as the team's head coach. He retired in 1983 and returned to coach the 1985 season. (Larry Salzman/Associated Press)

Bud Grant, Randy White, Leroy Kelly, Jackie Smith, Tony Dorsett, and Jimmy Johnson are introduced as the Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 1994 on the field before the NFC's 17-3 victory over the AFC in the 1994 NFL Pro Bowl played on February 6, 1994 at (NFL Photos/Associated Press)

Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee Bud Grant before the NFL Pro Bowl, a 17-3 NFC victory over the AFC on February 6, 1994, at Aloha Stadium in Honolulu, Hawaii. (NFL Photos/Associated Press)