Page was the first defensive player in NFL history to win the MVP Award and only Lawrence Taylor has done it since.

[4] Page graduated from Canton Central Catholic High School in 1963, where he starred in several sports and excelled in football.

He worked on a construction team that erected the Pro Football Hall of Fame, laying the groundwork for the building in which he would one day be enshrined.

[1] Page was presented with one of the 1992 Silver Anniversary Awards (NCAA) for achieving personal distinction since his graduation.

Page was named to the Academic All-American Hall of Fame in 2001 and as such received the Dick Enberg Award.

He is one of 11 Vikings to have played in all four Super Bowls (IV, VIII, IX, XI) in which the team appeared.

Page was a member of the Vikings' "Purple People Eaters," a defensive line adept at sacking or hurrying the quarterback.

He was one of the fifteen plaintiffs in Mackey v. National Football League in which Judge Earl R. Larson declared that the Rozelle rule was a violation of antitrust laws on December 30, 1975.

[citation needed] Long before Page's football career came to a close, he was laying the groundwork for his future role as a justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court.

While still playing for the Vikings, Page attended the University of Minnesota Law School, from which he received a Juris Doctor in 1978.

The Page Education Foundation has awarded grants to more than 7,500 students, who in turn have given more than 475,000 hours of their time to young children.

Upon his retirement from the bench, Page plans to continue the foundation's work and find other ways to encourage students of color to be successful in school, especially by developing critical thinking skills.

His running routine, which he took up while helping his wife quit smoking, is believed to have contributed to his dismissal from the Minnesota Vikings.

[25] In 2012 Page appeared in a Minnesota-filmed episode of PBS's Antiques Roadshow with an 1865 banner commemorating Abraham Lincoln.

[28] In 2018, Page contributed $1,000 to Democrat Dean Phillips, who beat Republican US Representative Erik Paulsen to win Minnesota's Third Congressional District seat.

[30] In January 2020, Page and Neel Kashkari proposed amending a portion of the Minnesota State Constitution to read, "All children have a fundamental right to a quality education that fully prepares them with the skills necessary for participation in the economy, our democracy, and society, as measured against uniform achievement standards set forth by the state.