During the late 1960s, the Vikings built a powerful defense known as the Purple People Eaters, led by Alan Page, Carl Eller, Gary Larsen, and Jim Marshall.

The team continued to dominate in and, reaching the playoffs due to the effort of a stubborn defense that gave the team the nickname " The Purple People Eaters.

* 16-Sheb Wooley, 82, American actor, singer (" Purple People Eater ").

Their defense, considered the most intimidating in the NFL, was anchored by a defensive line nicknamed the " Purple People Eaters ", consisting of defensive tackles Gary Larsen and Alan Page, and defensive ends Carl Eller and Jim Marshall.

Their defense was once again anchored by a defensive line nicknamed the " Purple People Eaters ", consisting of defensive tackles Gary Larsen and Alan Page, and defensive ends Jim Marshall and Carl Eller.

The Vikings were led by quarterback Fran Tarkenton and the Purple People Eaters defense ; they advanced to their second consecutive Super Bowl and third overall after finishing the regular season with a 10-4 record and defeating the St. Louis Cardinals and the Los Angeles Rams in the playoffs.

Aided by the " Purple People Eaters " defense, led by future hall of fame defensive linemen Carl Eller and Alan Page, and future hall of fame safety Paul Krause, the Vikings won the NFC Central for the sixth time in the previous seven seasons.

The Steelers ' " Steel Curtain " had led the AFC in fewest points allowed ( 189 ) and the Vikings ' " Purple People Eaters " had only given up 195.

The Vikings ' " Purple People Eaters " defense, anchored by Carl Eller and Alan Page, were also dominating teams again.

** Sheb Wooley, American actor and singer ( Flying Purple People Eater ) ( died 2003 )

Examples include polka versions of Jimi Hendrix's " Purple Haze " and The Doors ' " People are Strange ", The Rolling Stones ' "( I Can't Get No ) Satisfaction " as a cha-cha, and " Sixteen Tons " as a cumbia.

That same year, she won a part in the movie Purple People Eater opposite Ned Beatty and Neil Patrick Harris.

* Purple People Eater Meets the Witch Doctor

Research by Burtt suggests that Sheb Wooley, best known for his novelty song " The Purple People Eater " in 1958 and as scout Pete Nolan on the television series Rawhide, is likely to have been the voice actor who originally performed the scream.

Sulu was briefly a villain after being hypnotized by Evil George and Evil Harold in The Preposterous Plight of the Purple Potty People.

In " Purple Potty People ," the alternate Melvin was not at all intelligent.

Page was a member of the Vikings ' " Purple People Eaters ", a defensive line adept at sacking or hurrying the quarterback.

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The Vikings team that Finks put together was powered by a dynamic defensive front four, popularly known as The " Purple People Eaters ".

He completed " The Purple People Eaters " in 1967 by picking Alan Page in the draft.

Shelby F. " Sheb " Wooley ( April 10, 1921 – September 16, 2003 ) was a character actor and singer, best known for his 1958 novelty song " The Purple People Eater ".

In the late 1950s, Wooley embarked on a recording career, with the song that made him famous, the " Purple People Eater ".

In 1988, Beatty appeared with the main character Thelonious Pitt in Shadows in the Storm ( 1988 ), returned to work with Burt Reynolds and Christopher Reeve ; in 1988 comedy film Switching Channels ( 1988 ) and Purple People Eater ( 1988 ), portraying a simple grandfather.

As the left defensive end in the Vikings front four, he was a major factor in the unit known as the " Purple People Eaters ".

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Purple People Eaters ( sometimes Purple Gang ) is a term for the defensive line of the Minnesota Vikings from the late 1960s to the late 1970s.

The motto of the Purple People Eaters was " Meet at the quarterback.

The Purple People Eaters were a major factor in the post-season success of the Vikings from the late 1960s through the 1970s.

He was part of the " Fearsome Foursome ", along with Deacon Jones, Merlin Olsen, and Lamar Lundy, often considered one of the best defensive lines in football history, along with the Purple People Eaters of the Minnesota Vikings, the Steel Curtain of the Pittsburgh Steelers, and the Dallas Cowboys ' Doomsday Defense.

He was a member of the Vikings ' famous " Purple People Eaters " ( which consisted of Marshall ( DE ), Alan Page ( DT ), Gary Larsen ( DT ), and Carl Eller ( DE ), and was the final player from Minnesota's initial expansion team of 1961 to retire.

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In the second half, Viking coach Bud Grant adjusted his defense to stop the Ram tight ends, and his " Purple People Eaters " continued to punish the Ram running game.

Do the Right Thing ( 1989 ), Spike Lee's debut film, and The Color Purple ( 1985 ) were full character studies of African American culture and history.

Purple robes and a weighty gold loincloth were the only objects found in her tomb.

As there were three Slaves there were three patterns, termed Red, Green and Purple.

Hendrix borrowed a Fender Telecaster from Noel Redding to record " Hey Joe " and " Purple Haze ", used a white Gibson SG Custom for his performances on The Dick Cavett Show in the summer of 1969, and the Isle of Wight film shows him playing his second Gibson Flying V. While Jimi had previously owned a Flying V that he had painted with a psychedelic design, the Flying V used at the Isle of Wight was a unique custom left-handed guitar with gold plated hardware, a bound fingerboard and " split-diamond " fret markers that were not found on other 1960s-era Flying Vs.

More ambiguous portrayals of lesbian characters were seen in Silkwood ( 1983 ), The Color Purple ( 1985 ), and Fried Green Tomatoes ( 1991 ), despite explicit lesbianism in the source material.

Five works for phonograph ( known collectively as Cinq études de bruits — Five Studies of Noises ) including Etude violette ( Study in Purple ) and Etude aux chemins de fer ( Study of the Railroads ), were presented.

Upon signing with 4AD, eight tracks from the Purple Tape were selected for the Come On Pilgrim EP, the band's first release.

During World War II, nearly 500, 000 Purple Heart medals were manufactured in anticipation of the estimated casualties resulting from the planned Allied invasion of Japan.

In 2003, there were still 120, 000 of these Purple Heart medals in stock.

Individuals injured as a result of their own negligence, such as by driving or walking through an unauthorized area known to have been mined or placed off limits or searching for or picking up unexploded munitions as war souvenirs, will not be awarded the Purple Heart as they clearly were not injured as a result of enemy action, but rather by their own negligence.

From 1942 to 1997, civilians serving or closely affiliated with the armed forces — as government employees, Red Cross workers, war correspondents and the like — were eligible to receive the Purple Heart.

While the award of the Purple Heart is considered automatic for all wounds received in combat, each award presentation must still be reviewed to ensure that the wounds received were as a result of enemy action.

As the Purple Heart did not exist prior to 1932, records of the decoration are not annotated in service histories of those veterans who were wounded or killed by enemy action prior to the establishment of the medal.

There were two schools-one for boys and one for girls-built on a thousand acre site at the foot of Purple Mountain, in Nanjing.

Though consisting of previously released material ( save for the " Purple Toupee " b-sides, which were not available publicly ), it gave new fans a chance to hear the Johns ' earlier non-album work without having to hunt down the individual EPs.

Some Purple decrypts proved useful elsewhere, for instance detailed reports by Japan's ambassador to Germany which were encrypted on the Purple machine.

It is usually assumed that they were lured to the garage with the promise of a stolen, cut-rate shipment of whiskey, supplied by Detroit's Purple Gang, also associates of Capone.

Mug shots of Purple members George Lewis, Eddie Fletcher, Phil Keywell and his younger brother Harry, were picked out by landladies Mrs. Doody and Mrs. Orvidson, who had taken in three men as roomers ten days before the massacre ; their rooming houses were directly across the street from the Clark Street garage.

The Army judged that these machines had lower security than the Navy's Purple design, so the Army's two cipher machines were less used.

The Purple machine inherited a weakness from the Red machine that six letters of the alphabet were encrypted separately.