Former Vikings coach Dennis Green died Friday morning at age 67 after a cardiac arrest, according to a report from ESPN.com.
Green coached the Vikings from 1992-2001, making the playoffs eight times and taking Minnesota to the NFC title game after the 1998 and 2000 seasons.
After the Vikings, he coached the Arizona Cardinals from 2004 to ’06. Before the NFL, he was head coach at Northwestern and Stanford. At Northwestern, Green became the first black coach in Big Ten football history.
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