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THE PACKERS-VIKINGS SERIES
Packers G/T Billy Turner is from Shoreview, Minn. and attended Mounds View High School outside of Minneapolis…Turner's father, Maurice, was a 12th-round draft choice by the Vikings in 1983…Vikings coaches Gary Kubiak, Rick Dennison, Klint Kubiak and Brian Pariani were all on the Denver coaching staff in 2016 while Turner played for the Broncos…Packers LB Kamal Martin is from Burnsville, Minn., attended Burnsville High School outside of Minneapolis and played collegiately at the University of Minnesota…Vikings senior defensive assistant Dom Capers was the defensive coordinator for the Packers from 2009-17...Vikings LB Ryan Connelly played collegiately at the University of Wisconsin…Packers defensive backs coach Jerry Gray held the same position for the Vikings from 2014-19…Packers executive vice president/ director of football operations Russ Ball served as the senior football administrator for the Vikings from 1999-2000…Packers general manager Brian Gutekunst's father, John, served as the head coach of the University of Minnesota from 1985-91. The younger Gutekunst attended high school at Robbinsdale Armstrong in Bloomington, Minn. and Totino-Grace in Fridley, Minn…Packers outside linebackers coach Kirk Olivadotti's father, Tom, coached for the Minnesota Vikings from 1996-99…Packers senior analyst Butch Barry coached at Southwest Minnesota State in Marshall, Minn., from 2004-05…Barry also served as Central Michigan's offensive line coach in 2014 when Vikings TE Tyler Conklin was on the roster…Packers head coach Matt LaFleur was Vikings QB Kirk Cousins' position coach in Washington for two seasons (2012-13)…Vikings QB Sean Mannion was on the Los Angeles Rams' roster when LaFleur served as offensive coordinator in 2017…LaFleur coached on Kubiak's staff in Houston in 2008-09...LaFleur also coached Vikings WR Tajae Sharpe while serving as offensive coordinator for the Tennessee Titans in 2018…Cousins and Packers DL Preston Smith played together for Washington over the course of three seasons (2015-17)…Vikings assistant strength and conditioning coach Derik Keyes served in the same role with Cleveland while Packers defensive coordinator Mike Pettine was head coach…Packers RB Aaron Jones was coached by Vikings offensive quality control coach AC Patterson during his freshman season at Texas-El Paso…Vikings offensive quality control coach Christian Jones played with Packers DL Tyler Lancaster and DL Dean Lowry at Northwestern and was coached by Packers tight ends coach Justin Outten at Westfield HS (Houston, Texas), where Outten was the assistant head coach/offensive coordinator at the time...Minnesota running backs coach Kennedy Polamalu coached in Jacksonville for four years (2006-09) during Green Bay TE Marcedes Lewis' time with the Jaguars...Lewis and Vikings T Rashod Hill played together for Jacksonville in 2016…Packers offensive coordinator Nathaniel Hackett held the same position for Jacksonville when Lewis and Hill were on the roster…Lewis spent two seasons (2004-05) with Vikings assistant special teams coach Ryan Ficken at UCLA...Polamalu coached at UCLA while Green Bay DL Kenny Clark played for the Bruins (2014-15)...Vikings special teams coordinator Marwan Maalouf and Pettine were on the Baltimore Ravens' coaching staff together in 2008… Packers T Rick Wagner and Vikings RB Ameer Abdullah played together for the Lions for parts of two seasons (2017-18)…Packers TE Robert Tonyan also played with Wagner and Abdullah as a member of the Lions roster during the 2017 preseason…Packers LB Christian Kirksey and Vikings P Britton Colquitt played together for the Browns from 2016-18…Packers special teams coordinator Shawn Mennenga also coached Colquitt and Kirksey while serving as a special teams assistant for the Browns from 2016-17…Vikings WR Chad Beebe's father, Don, played for the Packers from 1996-97 and was a member of the Super Bowl XXXI champion team…Former college teammates include: Packers P JK Scott and Vikings TE Irv Smith Jr. (Alabama); Packers LB Randy Ramsey and Vikings DT Armon Watts (Arkansas); Packers TE Josiah Deguara, Vikings RB Mike Boone and LB Eric Wilson (Cincinnati); Packers CB Josh Jackson, LB Christian Kirksey, Vikings DT Jaleel Johnson and T Riley Reiff (Iowa); Packers LB Jonathan Garvin and Vikings WR K.J. Osborn (Miami); Packers LB Rashan Gary, G Jon Runyan and Vikings LB Ben Gedeon (Michigan); Packers LS Hunter Bradley, G Elgton Jenkins and Vikings CB Cameron Dantzler (Mississippi State); Packers C Corey Linsley and Vikings G Pat Elflein (Ohio State); Packers G Lane Taylor and Vikings K Dan Bailey (Oklahoma State); Packers DL Kenny Clark, Vikings LB Anthony Barr and LB Eric Kendricks (UCLA).