MANKATO – The Vikings will pack up and leave Mankato on Wednesday and, for the first time in 52 summers, they shall not return.
"This is my 41st season coming down as a player or scout," said Scott Studwell. "Lots of memories. All the friendships formed. Some shenanigans I'd rather not discuss. I guess it still hasn't hit me that we're not coming back."
Training camp moves to the team's new Eagan headquarters in 2018. Meanwhile, 80 miles southwest of Minneapolis, the city that sharpened 13 Hall of Famers and created countless memories — many good, some bad and one very tragic one that cost Korey Stringer his life — will sit eerily quiet for the first time since 1965.