Fran Tarkenton
Career information High school: Athens High School College: Georgia NFL Draft: 1961 / Round: 3 / Pick: 29 AFL Draft: 1961 / Round: 5 / Pick: 34 Debuted in 1961 for the Minnesota Vikings Last played in 1978 for the Minnesota Vikings Career history Minnesota Vikings (1961–1966) New York Giants (1967–1971) Minnesota Vikings (1972–1978) Career highlights and awards 9× Pro Bowl selection (1964, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1974, 1975, 1976) AP First-Team All-Pro (1975) AP Second-Team All-Pro (1973) 1975 NFL MVP (AP, PFWA, NEA, SN, MX) 3× NFC Champion (1973, 1974, 1976) AP NFL Offensive Player of the Year (1975) UPI NFC Player of the Year (1975) Pro Bowl MVP (1964) Minnesota Vikings #10 retired Minnesota Vikings Ring of Honor Minnesota Vikings 25th Anniversary Team Minnesota Vikings 40th Anniversary Team 50 Greatest Vikings Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee (1986) College Football Hall of Fame inductee (1987) Records Vikings Career Passing Yards Leader with 33,098 Vikings Career Passing Touchdowns Leader with 239 Career NFL statistics Pass attempts 6,467 Pass completions 3,686 Percentage 57.0 TD–INT 342–266 Passing yards 47,003 QB Rating 80.4 Stats at NFL.com Pro Football Hall of Fame College Football Hall of Fame Francis Asbury "Fran" Tarkenton (born February 3, 1940) is a former NFL quarterback, television personality, and computer software executive. He is best known for playing with the Minnesota Vikings and New York Giants, as well as serving as a commentator on Monday Night Football and a co-host of That's Incredible!. At the time of his retirement he owned every major quarterback record. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1986. Tarkenton also founded Tarkenton Software, a computer-program generator company, and he toured the U.S. promoting CASE (computer-aided software engineering) with Albert F. Case, Jr. of Nastec Corporation. Tarkenton Software later merged with KnowledgeWare (with Tarkenton as president), until selling the company to Sterling Software in 1994.