BLOOMINGTON, Minn. —  The Minnesota Vikings football coach Bud Grant, who led four teams to the Super Bowl, died at home at age 94. He had been in retirement in the Minneapolis suburb of Bloomington. He was born in Superior, Wisconsin, and christened Harry Peter Grant Jr. The nickname Bud came from his mother. It stuck. Grant overcame polio as a child and became a three-sport high school star. He learned coaching after enlisting in 1945 and playing on the Great Lakes Naval Training Station team run by Paul Brown, who would go on to a Hall of Fame career. Grant’s NFL record: 158-96-5.

Vikings head coach from 1967 to 1983 and in 1985. Image: St. Paul Pioneer Press archive