Bud Grant failed to win a Super Bowl in four attempts as Vikings head coach during the 1970s. Running back Adrian Peterson has never qualified in seven superstar seasons with Minnesota.

Yet civic duty calls the icons to help deliver a defining victory for the franchise Tuesday when the Vikings and Minnesota Super Bowl LII committee woo league owners for the chance to play host to the NFL championship game in 2018.

The competition is formidable; New Orleans and Indianapolis already have been host to successful Super Bowls, and each has the major advantage of a venue that is actually built.

But Minnesota has advantages, as well.

Presenters Richard Davis, chief executive of U.S. Bancorp, Marilyn Carlson Nelson, former CEO of Carlson Cos.

Mark Wilf (Courtesy of Minnesota Vikings)

Videotaped speeches from Grant, Peterson and other local celebrities including Olympic skier Lindsey Vonn and chef Andrew Zimmern will help bring Minnesota's detailed bid to life this week in the ballroom of Atlanta's Ritz-Carlton Hotel.

"We're going to put a plan together that will blow their mind," Davis said.

Dennis Hopper actually did back in 2008.

The late actor/director/iconoclast made the pitch that year for Indianapolis, a town Hopper adopted after earning an Academy Award nomination for playing alcoholic assistant coach "Shooter" in the 1986 high school basketball movie "Hoosiers."

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