John Randle is also a Hall of Famer when it comes to hilarious lottery ticket ads

During his fourteen-year NFL career, most of those with the Vikings, John Randle went from unheralded and undrafted nobody from Texas A&I to a perennial All-Pro to, after Saturday’s enshrinement, a member of the NFL Hall of Fame. While spending 11 years with the Minnesota Vikings and amassing 114 sacks, Randle became one of the most beloved players ever to wear purple and personified what fans identified as the defining characteristics of what a football player should be: ultra-competitive, tenacious and possessing the good sense to display at every possible moment how grateful he was for the opportunity to be a professional football player.
Randle will always have a special place in the hearts of Vikings fans, so it made perfect sense for the Minnesota State Lottery to feature the legend in an ad campaign promoting the new Vikings scratch-off tickets. The results were…interesting. And highly amusing.

In the first commercial, a couple of female Vikes fans are attempting to figure out how to jump start their car. Fortunately for them, after one of the gals scratches off her lottery ticket, she transforms into John Randle who attaches the jumper cables to his arms and flexes his way into recharging the battery.

Good stuff. Next up, yet another group of Vikings fans are stranded with an inoperable automobile. This time, what I see as a Brad Childress lookalike scratches his ticket and once again an average fan becomes the tenacious pass rusher, only on this occasion he takes the braids off their Vikings hats, ties them around his chest, attaches himself to their Vikings van and tows them on their way.

Awesome. So once again, congratulations goes out to John Randle for his against-all-odds enshrinement in the Hall of Fame. Up next for Randle: a well-deserved CLIO Award? Hey, it could happen.
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Vikings standout DT John Randle enters Hall of Fame [Star Tribune]