Francis Asbury “Fran” Tarkenton (born February 3, 1940) is a former NFL quarterback, television personality, and computer software executive. He is best known for playing with the Minnesota Vikings and New York Giants….as well as serving as a commentator on Monday Night Football….and a co-host of That’s Incredible!. At the time of his retirement he owned every major quarterback record….and was generally regarded as one of the best scrambling and most elusive quarterback to have played the game. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1986. Tarkenton also founded Tarkenton Software….a computer-program generator compan…. and he toured the U.S. promoting CASE (computer-aided software engineering) with Albert F. Case, Jr. of Nastec Corporation. Tarkenton Software later merged with KnowledgeWare (with Tarkenton as president), until selling the company to Sterling Software in 1994. This video shows succinctly why Tarkenton is considered to be one of the greatest NFL quarterbacks ever to play the game.
