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

by Bill Williamson, Eric Thompson (With)

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 been established as one of the premier teams in all of sports. 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 close glory of Vikings football within these pages. Remember the bone-chilling days of old Metropolitan Stadium? Or the no-nonsense, in-your-face coaching style of Bud Grant? From Cris Carter to Fran Tarkenton, Randy Moss, and more, this newly revised edition of Tales from the Minnesota Vikings Sideline has it all!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781613213261
Publisher:	Sports Publishing LLC
Publication date:	09/07/2012
Series:	Tales from the Team
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	192
File size:	3 MB
Age Range:	12 - 18 Years

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