I was acquainted with Joe Johnson for one year. A plethora of other folks knew him longer and thus more intimately, but he and I were linked at the digital hip amid the last twelve months. His ideation of how VikingsTerritory and its sister websites would blossom was our enthusiastic focus.
Joe reached out to me in a Twitter direct message on a July night in 2020. I was writing for a different Vikings-themed entity at the time, my first stop in the writing stratosphere. His offer was simple: Come write with me, and I will blow their pay out of the water.