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Former Vikings assistant coach Monte Kiffin deserves to be in the Hall of Fame
The year was 1990. I was in my first year of covering the Vikings for the Star Tribune, and I was trying to develop contacts around the NFL. In those days of wide-open access and seemingly unlimited travel budgets, I could go pretty much anywhere there …