What else can give you a wave of goosebumps like this?

This is history, two men with legacies on the line.

And then send you into a state of complete euphoria.

An adulteration, Titanovarity, that's starting from breach, two goals in the... The of his all in the dark. Will it be his last? Thank you so much.

TMT sports, only sport can do this. Hello,

welcome to another episode of Purple Insider Matthew Collar,

and a special guest is joining me today,

the author of Kings of the North photographs and history of the

Minnesota Vikings I have it in my hand and have been poking through this book which I think

would be incredibly enjoyable for any Vikings fan and I have the author Chad Israelson with me here to talk about this and I just want to say first

Chad that my favorite part of this is the all decade teams which I want to discuss. You've got every year broken down here. You have all decade teams you have vignettes about different moments and different trends and things like Kickers.

I'm really enjoying the book man.

Start off maybe I just kind of tell me about the project a little bit.

Okay, well, first, thank you very much.

I appreciate that and I appreciate you having me on.

Yeah, you know, it started actually when I really decided to do this was after watching

Adrian Peterson break the single game rushing record and I just thought,

wow, that's one of the greatest things I've ever seen as a Vikings fan and then I just

started thinking about, you know, lists of the greatest moments and that kind of stuff and then it just started pouring.

Now, obviously, that was back in 2007, so it's taken a while to get, this finished product but it's been really pretty much my entire lifetime of watching the team and I you know collected a Viking report Viking update back in the old print generation.

It was like the highlight of my week was you know the Wednesday I think it was a

Wednesday maybe a

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