The Vikings’ contract to hold training camp on the campus of Minnesota State University, Mankato ends in 2018, the same year the team plans to open their new state-of-the-art headquarters in Eagan.
Nothing yet has been made official but it certainly seems the opening of the new facility will spell an to the team’s fifty-plus-year relationship with Mankato.
Mankato residents seem resigned to the notion that the Vikes plan to move training camp out of their area.
WCCO spoke to some Mankato folks and the mood in that community is not hopeful when it comes to the Vikings.