NFL

Vikings want Parcells to run team

Even as the Saints beg Bill Parcells to come to New Orleans, The Post has learned Vikings owner Zygi Wilf is putting the hard sell on the former Giants and Jets coach to head to Minnesota and “run the show.’’

The Saints are seeking a replacement for the 2012 season for suspended head coach Sean Payton, while Wilf, who has strong New Jersey ties, is simply seeking an upgrade over coach Leslie Frazier and GM Rick Spielman and believes Parcells is the guy.

The Vikings went 3-13 last season under Frazier, who took over for fired Brad Childress during the 2010 season.

Payton, Parcells’ former offensive coordinator with the Cowboys, was in Florida last week trying to twist the two-time Super Bowl winner’s arm into relocating to Bourbon Street. But at a dinner attended by Payton and several of Parcells’ close friends — during which Saints quarterback Drew Brees sent Parcells a recruiting text — a source said Parcells revealed Wilf’s offer to “name his price” to both oversee the Vikings’ football operations and coach the team.

But Parcells, who turns 71 in August, said he had reservations about taking such a job. Parcells told the group he wondered whether the game had “passed me by.”