Joseph Robert Kapp was an American football quarterback. Kapp played College football for the Cal-Berkeley, where, in 1958, he led the team to a Pacific Coast Championship and its last appearance in the 1959 Rose Bowl. He was named an All American that year. He also played basketball for Cal and was on the 1956-1957 and 1957-1958 teams that won the Pacific Coast Championship and went to the 1958 NCAA tournament. He earned a B.A. degree in Physical Education from UC Berkeley in 1960.

In 1959 Kapp joined the Calgary Stampeders of the CFL. In 1961 the British Columbia Lions, the CFL's newest franchise, traded 5 players for Kapp. The move quickly paid off for the Lions when Kapp led the team to a Grey Cup appearance in 1963 before leading the Lions to their first Grey Cup victory in 1964. However, the Lions proved unable to defend their championship and, before the 1967 season, the team traded Kapp to the Minnesota Vikings of the NFL for Jim Young.

In 1968, Kapp led the Minnesota Vikings to their first ever playoff game as a team against the Baltimore Colts. On September 28, 1969 in a game against the Baltimore Colts he threw for 7 touchdown passes which still stands as the all-time record today with 3 other players. That same year he led the Vikings to a 12-2 record and a berth in Super Bowl IV after defeating the Cleveland Browns 27-7 in the last NFL Championship game ever played. That year Joe coined the phrase "40 for 60" meaning 40 players going all out for 60 minutes. However, he was unable to lead the team to victory in the Super Bowl, as the Vikings lost 23-7 to the Kansas City Chiefs. The following year the NFL and AFL merged and the NFL Championship game was no more after 50 years of NFL competition.

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