Vikings player No. 3
Fred Cox, kicker (210 games played)
It's a bit astounding that Fred Cox is the only player on this list not to be in the Minnesota Vikings Ring of Honor or the Pro Football Hall of Fame considering the productive career he had and his contributions to football.
Cox holds the Vikings' all-time record for points scored at 1,365 and has made the most field goals for the franchise (282). His NFL career spanned from 1963 to 1977 and only ever played for the purple and gold.
The kicker is credited with inventing a soft football that he sold to Parker Brothers and then to Hasbro, an invention would go on to become the Nerf football. Most people reading this have probably played with a Nerf football and not know its ties to the Vikings.
He was part of the 1969 NFL Championship team and was named to the Pro Bowl in 1970. He opened a chiropractic practice in Buffalo, New York toward the end of his NFL career and opened another clinic in 1998 before moving to Minnesota and practicing there.