One of my favorite Vikings of all time...

i had the Anthony Carter Nike “Candlestick” where he was laid out horizontally catching a pass - purple sunset in the background.  That was a little less.....shall we say..”
”homo-erotic”

Had the one in the ‘70s too, with the sketch of the bearded viking, players 

IIRC my posters were more of Daisy Duke than Vikings players,  but I did have one of the helmet I believe.

@"purplefaithful" said: But sorry Vikefans, I disagree.

They dont need to bring anything like this back again.... :s

https://twitter.com/VikeFans/status/1528376040422313984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1528376040422313984%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fvikefans.com%2Fyes-kids-really-hung-posters-like-this-one-in-their-rooms-in-the-1980s-they%2F

I mean I would be alright if it was Kendricks, Smith or Hunter.

That was such a great team. They really took the torch from the Purple People Eaters and ran with it. 

First Viking jersey I ever bought (had some Viking T-shirts, but no jerseys) was #81 Anthony Carter. An actual full sized jersey. People forget that Carter signed with the Miami Dolphins coming out of the USFL and they traded his rights to the Vikings without having played one game for them.

Loved Millard! His quickness off the snap was like nothing I'd ever seen before. But yeah, can do without the cosplay.  

@"StickyBun" said: First Viking jersey I ever bought (had some Viking T-shirts, but no jerseys) was #81 Anthony Carter. An actual full sized jersey. People forget that Carter signed with the Miami Dolphins coming out of the USFL and they traded his rights to the Vikings without having played one game for them.

Keith Millard
Anthony Carter
Gary Zimmerman

When the USFL folded.  What a haul! 

@"purplefaithful" said:

@"StickyBun" said: First Viking jersey I ever bought (had some Viking T-shirts, but no jerseys) was #81 Anthony Carter. An actual full sized jersey. People forget that Carter signed with the Miami Dolphins coming out of the USFL and they traded his rights to the Vikings without having played one game for them.

Remarkable Mike Lynn was able to get:

Keith Millard
Anthony Carter
Gary Zimmerman

When the USFL folded.  What a haul! 

@"purplefaithful" said:

@"StickyBun" said: First Viking jersey I ever bought (had some Viking T-shirts, but no jerseys) was #81 Anthony Carter. An actual full sized jersey. People forget that Carter signed with the Miami Dolphins coming out of the USFL and they traded his rights to the Vikings without having played one game for them.

Remarkable Mike Lynn was able to get:

Keith Millard
Anthony Carter
Gary Zimmerman

When the USFL folded.  What a haul! 

@"JimmyinSD" said:

@"purplefaithful" said:

@"StickyBun" said: First Viking jersey I ever bought (had some Viking T-shirts, but no jerseys) was #81 Anthony Carter. An actual full sized jersey. People forget that Carter signed with the Miami Dolphins coming out of the USFL and they traded his rights to the Vikings without having played one game for them.

Remarkable Mike Lynn was able to get:

Keith Millard
Anthony Carter
Gary Zimmerman

When the USFL folded.  What a haul! 

To bad he hadn't been able to land Herschel Walker at that time,  would have saved a ton of grief a few years later for the fans

@"kmillard" said:

@"purplefaithful" said:

@"StickyBun" said: First Viking jersey I ever bought (had some Viking T-shirts, but no jerseys) was #81 Anthony Carter. An actual full sized jersey. People forget that Carter signed with the Miami Dolphins coming out of the USFL and they traded his rights to the Vikings without having played one game for them.

Remarkable Mike Lynn was able to get:

Keith Millard
Anthony Carter
Gary Zimmerman

When the USFL folded.  What a haul! 

and 
David Howard
Wymon Henderson
Dave Huffman 
(although Huffman and Millard were Viking draft picks)

@"purplefaithful" said:

@"StickyBun" said: First Viking jersey I ever bought (had some Viking T-shirts, but no jerseys) was #81 Anthony Carter. An actual full sized jersey. People forget that Carter signed with the Miami Dolphins coming out of the USFL and they traded his rights to the Vikings without having played one game for them.

Remarkable Mike Lynn was able to get:

Keith Millard
Anthony Carter
Gary Zimmerman

When the USFL folded.  What a haul! 

@"MaroonBells" said:

@"purplefaithful" said:

@"StickyBun" said: First Viking jersey I ever bought (had some Viking T-shirts, but no jerseys) was #81 Anthony Carter. An actual full sized jersey. People forget that Carter signed with the Miami Dolphins coming out of the USFL and they traded his rights to the Vikings without having played one game for them.

Remarkable Mike Lynn was able to get:

Keith Millard
Anthony Carter
Gary Zimmerman

When the USFL folded.  What a haul! 

At the time I didn't quite realize what a theft that really was. I can't quite remember how it was done, but I don't think we even needed to use draft picks.