MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — John Bott has seen the Vikings play at U.S. Bank Stadium, at TCF Bank Stadium, at the Metrodome and at Metropolitan Stadium.
“It was Purple People Eater time,” Bott said, “Bud Grant and that whole crew.”
The lifelong Vikings football fan got season tickets through a connection in the early 1970s and went religiously every year after that.
“We had the heartbreaks of Super Bowl losses but it was still exciting,” Bott said.
Bott and his wife eventually moved away, and when his daughter, Lori Barnes, moved to Minneapolis in the late 1990s, he gave her the season tickets.