For more than a decade I was able to slip the bonds of ordinary fandom and become a working journalist who covered and traveled with the Minnesota Vikings on a daily basis. This gave me opportunities to go behind the scenes and forge relationships that I previously had only dreamed of.
One of the highlights of that experience was getting to travel with the team. Many times, you actually traveledwith the team, although the media was quartered in the rear of the aircraft, and direct conversations with players in that context were almost nonexistent.
My first full year at KARE-11 TV was 1994, and that year KARE outbid the other local stations to become “the official broadcast partner of the Minnesota Vikings.