MANKATO, Minn. — Alan Page soon will have a reason to turn on his big-screen television.

The Vikings’ legendary defensive tackle will be the subject of “A Football Life,” scheduled to run in October on the NFL Network.

An NFL Films crew has made a half-dozen trips to Minnesota, including this weekend, to get material on Page’s life as a football player and associate justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court who will retire at the end of August.

“I haven’t seen them,” Page told the Pioneer Press on Sunday at Vikings training camp about the documentary series that began in 2011. “Sadly, my wife (Diane) and I don’t spend a lot of time watching TV. I bought a nice flat-screen about eight years ago and basically haven’t turned it on since we got it.

“But from what I understand, they do a very good job. With the time they’ve spent on it, it’s going to be good. They’ve been following me around everywhere.”

That includes filming Page when he addressed the Vikings on Sunday after a training-camp practice. Page will be the fourth former Minnesota player featured on “A Football Life,” following Cris Carter and Randall Cunningham in 2013 and Warren Moon in 2014, although the latter two had relatively short Vikings stints.

Page, who Friday hits the court’s mandatory retirement age of 70, played for the Vikings from 1967-78 and was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio, in 1988. But he was just as successful after his football career, serving 22 years on the Minnesota Supreme Court.

“It’s my entire life,” Page said of the documentary. “The football career makes for more compelling TV, but the legal career makes for (being) more rewarding and in the grand scheme of things more meaningful. But they’re both good.”

Sunday marked the second straight year Page has addressed his former team at training camp. Coach Mike Zimmer said it’s “great to have these great former Vikings come in,” and he read off a list of Page’s accomplishments before he talked.

“He said we got the potential to be where we want to be and that’s winning the Super Bowl,” said cornerback Captain Munnerlyn. “He told us he was fortunate to make it to four Super Bowls and they didn’t win one but we all got to buy in and be willing to put in the extra work. … It was definitely a special moment to have him out there. I’m going to be glued to the TV for (when Page is on “A Football Life”).”

Page isn’t sure if retirement will give him more time to follow the Vikings. Nevertheless, he’s excited about their prospects.

“I don’t know if they need me hanging around practice, but I’ll keep an eye on them from afar,” Page said. “The beauty of sport is there is reason to be optimistic every year, but this year there probably is more of a reason to.”

Page is a native of Canton, but he has a prior commitment and won’t be able to attend Saturday when former teammate Mick Tingelhoff is inducted into the Hall or Sunday, when the Vikings face Pittsburgh in the Hall of Fame Game.

Page said Tingelhoff, a Seniors Committee nominee who was a Minnesota center from 1962-78, should have been inducted “a long time ago, but better late than never.” Page said he had written letters pushing for Tingelhoff in past years to the selection committee.

“It would be fair to say that nobody listened,” Page said with a laugh.

They did this year, though. Tingelhoff will become Page’s fifth former teammate in the Hall, following Fran Tarkenton, Ron Yary, Carl Eller and Paul Krause. Also in the Hall are his former Vikings coach, Bud Grant, and general manager, Jim Finks.

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