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Purple People The Crazy Culture and Customs of Minnesota Vikings Fans, the Best Fans in the NFL. Purple People covers everything that makes Vikings fans the best fans in all of sports. You ll hear about the tailgating parties where Benchwarmer Bob drank beers with the fans, and how the fans had a season-ending pig roast and the players showed up. It will examine how the move indoors and the loss of tailgating took away the fans identity, but how they themselves led a resurgence in team spirit and came back better than ever. Purple People features interviews with famous Vikings players, commentary from people inside the organization, and profiles on great Vikings fans, including every official Fan of the Year. This book tells the story of the great and glorious Purple Pride nation. From fan clubs in sunny Los Angeles to lifelong season-ticket holders in Duluth, from partiers to priests, from guys to gals, from Norm Van Brocklin and Metropolitan Stadium to Brad Childress at the Metrodome, Purple People covers everything that makes Vikings fans the best fans in all of sports. Any fan will laugh to read the stories, and love coming to understand the great and glorious community of fans they belong to. Purple People ... for anyone who bleeds purple.
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Ried Holien is an award-winning author of sports and history who remembers events in his life according to Minnesota Vikings games. The year he got married? Disappointing because the Vikes went 8-8. The birth of his first child? Holding her took the sting off the Vikings blowout loss to the Giants in the NFC Championship game. You will find Ried every Sunday during football season either at home watching the game or partying with friends at the Metrodome. His claims to fame are that he was one of the inventing members of the Young Vikings Cult, which invented the 1...2...3...First Down! Cheer, the AC and CC cheers, and the Bring out your chains! cheer. He s also one of only two (along with his brother) people stupid enough to regularly dance to the Hormel Row of Fame song. As a Vikings fan, Ried has appeared on ABC, NBC, CBS, and ESPN. With his horns, occasional make up, cape and demeanor, he has been telestrated twice by John Madden, appeared in the Vikings Gameday publication five times, in the year-in-review team video twice, and was made fun of and/or otherwise commented on by announcers Phil Simms, Troy Aikman, Pat Summerall, and Bryant Gumbell.
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