Former Vikings coach Bud Grant’s garage sale is glorious
The best thing about Bud Grant holding a garage sale is not that an NFL icon is selling some old stuff, it’s that he’s having a freaking garage sale.
Grant’s garage sale, in which he’s tweeting out his home address to come on by, includes old Vikings stuff, fishing and hunting gear and now we’re a backyard hockey rink and some lutefisk from this being the most Minnesota thing that has ever happened.
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Grant is a legend in Minnesota in just about every way. He won nine letters as an athlete at the University of Minnesota, played for the NBA’s Minneapolis Lakers in addition to an NFL playing career. He then coached the Minnesota Vikings to four Super Bowls. He was inducted to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
And now Grant is inviting everyone to his house for some deals on his used stuff. There are dozens of tweets chronicling the event @HPBudGrant, but here are some highlights:
“Park responsibly.” Perfect.
This is Grant’s 11th garage sale, the Fox affiliate in Minneapolis said. How is there so much stuff then? “Grant said he had some closets that he hadn’t journeyed through in a while,” the story said. Oh.
All of this started on Wednesday, which happened to be Grant’s 88th birthday. He signed autographs ($25 each) and watched folks pick through old Vikings shirts and a Hall-of-Famer’s fishing lures. In 20 years I want to see a Bill Belichick garage sale.
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