Tales from the Minnesota Vikings Sideline: A Collection of the Greatest Vikings Stories Ever Told

by Bill Williamson, Eric Thompson

Overview

Take a journey from the infant stages of football in Minnesota up through the Vikings’ four Super Bowl appearances in Bill Williamson and Eric Thompson’s Tales from the Minnesota Vikings Sideline.

For more than fifty years the Vikings have established themselves as one of the premier teams in the NFL. Perhaps the most successful team to never win a Super Bowl, the Vikings have nevertheless harbored a rich tradition of winning football.

Now fans of this Midwest powerhouse will relive all the history, all the passion, and all the tantalizingly glory of Vikings football within these pages. Remember the bone-chilling days of old Metropolitan Stadium? Or the no-nonsense coaching style of Bud Grant? From Cris Carter to Fran Tarkenton, Randy Moss, Brett Favre, Adrian Peterson, Jared Allen, Teddy Bridgewater and more, this newly revised edition of Tales from the Minnesota Vikings Sideline has it all!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781683581352
Publisher:	Sports Publishing LLC
Publication date:	10/03/2017
Pages:	192
Sales rank:	284,115
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.30(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Bill Williamson has been a professional sports journalist since 1990. He has covered the NFL since 1996. He was a Vikings’ beat writer for the St. Paul Pioneer Press from 2000-04. He spent eight years at ESPN covering the NFL and is currently an NFL senior writer for Cox Media. He resides in Northern California with his wife, Coleen.

Eric Thompson is an avid sports fan and dedicated contributing writer for the Daily Norseman, one of the most popular Vikings football blogs within SBNation.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 The Early Days 1

Chapter 2 One Offensive Line 11

Chapter 3 The Coaches 23

Chapter 4 Training Camp 39

Chapter 5 Moss and Carter 46

Chapter 6 Contemporary Players 56

Chapter 7 Mike Tice 99

Chapter 8 Korey Stringer 113

Chapter 9 Red McCombs and the Fans 122

Chapter 10 Fun and Games

Chapter 11 The Elements 136

Chapter 12 The End Zone 143

Epilogue 159