Beyond everything he did at the college and NFL levels, on and off the field, Dennis Green is known as the coach of possibly the best team never to get to the Super Bowl.
If that team — the 1998 Minnesota Vikings — had made it, the obituaries for Green would have been different.
“I think it would’ve changed the legacy of everybody involved with that team,’’ said Sporting News contributor Jeff Diamond, who was involved with that team as its vice president and, with Green, was its chief architect. “Everybody who played, and Dennis Green as a coach.