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Joe Kapp was an American football quarterback. In 1967, after an 8 year career in the CFL where he won the 1964 Grey Cup with the B.C. Lions, Joe was purchased by the Minnesota Vikings of the NFL. In 1968, he led the Minnesota Vikings to their first ever playoff game as a team against the Baltimore Colts. On September 28, 1969 in a game against the Baltimore Colts he threw for 7 touchdown passes which still stands as the all-time record today with 3 other players. That same year he led the Vikings to a 12-2 record and a berth in Super Bowl IV after defeating the Cleveland Browns 27-7 in the last NFL Championship game ever played. That year Joe coined the phrase "40 for 60" meaning 40 players going all out for 60 minutes. The following year the NFL and AFL merged and the NFL Championship game was no more after 50 years of NFL competition. A contract dispute forced Kapp to be traded to the Boston Patriots in 1970 where he was the highest paid player in the league, and one year later he retired from pro football. On July 20, 1970, Sports Illustrated dubbed Joe Kapp "The Toughest Chicano" on the cover if it's weekly magazine. In 1982 after a short acting career in such movies as the Longest Yard, Two Minute Warning and Semi Tough, Joe was hired as the head football coach at his alma mater, The University of California, Berkeley. In his first year as head coach, Joe was voted the Pac 10 Coach of the year. Today, Joe lives in California and makes himself available as a guest speaker.
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