Another day, another entry into the 30 Day Challenge series, ladies and gentlemen. We're sticking with the posts about different positions for today, and moving on to the next level of the defense.
As big a fan as I am of E.J. Henderson and the perseverance he showed in coming back from a career-threatening injury, for me the discussion of Vikings linebackers begins and ends with Scott Studwell. (Again, I'll put the disclaimer out there that I wasn't a Vikings fan until the mid-80s, so I missed the crew from the Purple People Eaters.) Studwell, to me, was everything that a prototypical, old school middle linebacker was supposed to be.