Vikings personnel consultant Paul Wiggin can thank old buddy and former roommate Pete Carroll for bringing to light a piece of NFL history that Wiggin had no idea he was part of as a rookie in Cleveland back in 1957.
If Carroll’s Seattle defense hadn’t held Arizona to fewer than eight points Sunday, the Seahawks wouldn’t have won their fourth consecutive NFL defensive scoring title heading into Sunday’s NFC wild-card matchup against the Vikings at TCF Bank Stadium. And if that hadn’t happened, Seattle wouldn’t have been mentioned as the first team to accomplish that feat since Paul Brown’s Cleveland Browns won five straight from 1953 to ’57, when Wiggin was backing up Pro Football Hall of Fame defensive end Len Ford.