It was the summer of 2014. Long starving for some sort of journalistic opportunity, I decided to pick up the chance to cover training camp for the Minnesota Vikings. While I had done some blogging for Bleacher Report and other sites to begin my career, the experience was deeply terrifying as it was my first chance to work in the actual field as opposed to sitting on my couch spitting hot takes.
As I stood there and spent most of my time at camp trying not to go full fan-boy when Adrian Peterson walked past, I was also trying to get some content for the websites I was writing for.