Sunday’s game also will feature a few players who were part of two of the more recent high-profile moves involving the teams.
In the first significant football personnel move in Seahawks history in 1976, the team hired Jack Patera as its coach. He had made his name by helping groom the Minnesota Vikings’ famed Purple People Eaters defense.
Patera coached the defensive line of Carl Eller, Alan Page and Jim Marshall that was as big of a reason as any for the Vikings reaching four Super Bowls from 1970-77.
And ever since, the Seahawks and Vikings — who will meet again Sunday in Minnesota — have been inextricably, if not at times inexplicably, linked by a series of trades and personnel moves.