Bud Grant
Harry Peter "Bud" Grant, Jr. (born May 20, 1927) is a former coach and player of American football and Canadian football. Grant served as the head coach of the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League (NFL) for eighteen seasons; he was the team's second (1967–83) and fourth (1985) head coach. Before coaching the Vikings, he was the head coach of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the Canadian Football League (CFL) for ten seasons, winning the Grey Cup four times. Grant is the most successful coach in Vikings history, and the third most successful professional football coach overall (behind Don Shula and George Halas), with a combined 290 wins in the NFL and CFL. Grant was elected to the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 1983 and to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1994. He was the first coach in the history of professional football to guide teams to the Grey Cup finals and the Super Bowl.
Grant attended the University of Minnesota and was a three-sport athlete, in football, basketball, and baseball. After college, he played for the Minneapolis Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA), the Philadelphia Eagles of the NFL, and the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the CFL.
Bud Grant (broadcaster)
B. Donald "Bud" Grant (February 7, 1932 – July 1, 2011) was an American television executive. He served as the President of CBS Entertainment from 1980 until 1987. He was credited with spearheading some of CBS' best known shows of the 1980s, including Newhart and Murder, She Wrote.
Grant was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and earned a Bachelor of Science in business from Johns Hopkins University. He served from 1953 to 1955 in the U.S. Coast Guard.
Grant left CBS in 1987 and founded his own production company, Bud Grant Productions. He would later form Grant/Tribune Prods., which produced for Tribune Broadcasting and Walt Disney Studios.
Grant died in Newport Beach, California, on July 1, 2011.
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- The George Mitchell Collection released:
The George Mitchell Collection
- Lucy Mae Blues
- I Woke Up Crying
- Love Blues
- I Told You Not to Do That
- In the Evening
- Hey Lawdy Mama
- Thousand Woman Blues
- Blue Shadow Falling
- Cold Rainy Day
- Amy
- Motherless Child
- Hush, Somebody Is Calling My Name
- What God Can Do
- He'll Understand and Say Well Done
- Big Road Blues
- Cool Water Blues
- Big Fat Mama Blues
- Take a Little Walk With Me
- Everyone Got a Woman
- What She Need With a Rooster
- Sink or Swim
- Prison Bound
- Who's Gonna Be Your Man
- If I Lose Let Me Lose
- Black Woman
- Bumble Bee
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