MINNEAPOLIS -- Last summer, in one of the few trips he's made back to his hometown of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, since he left to attend the University of Minnesota in 1960, Minnesota Vikings Hall of Fame defensive end Carl Eller visited the house where his grandmother worked as a maid in the 1950s.
Eller's grandmother was a maid for the family of a Moravian Church reverend back then. On his walk to see a movie, Eller said, "I'd stop by and visit her -- and maybe get a nickel or dime, and I could buy a treat at Krispy Kreme donuts.