Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode of Purple Insider, Matthew Collar, here.

And we are just about nine days away from the Minnesota Vikings taking the field for an actual training camp practice.

Whoa, that leaves us a little bit of time to have some final conversations previewing

training camp, which I'm excited about.

And nobody loves more than me to dive into the back end of the roster, to the undrafted

free agents, to the Mr. Man Cato's, to the who is of the roster, to the undrafted free agents, to the Mr.

Man Cato's, to the who is the seventh round draft pick, who could suddenly emerge.

I mean, and look, through the years, there's been some really fun examples of this.

Some have worked out better than others, but I was thinking back today.

I was on a flight and it got delayed.

So I had some time to sit in a chair and think about the Vikings and training camp.

And I was thinking of some of the names that popped up through the years that were really

fun stories of like, hey, I never saw coming with Najee Thompson.

Give you a little Najee Thompson story before I get into the main point of tonight's show.

There was an intern for a local TV station that came up to me and a couple of the writers and just asked for some advice.

Hey, how should I go about covering this training camp practice?

I've never been to one before.

What should I do?

And I said, you know what you should do? You should go up to Najee Thompson and you should talk to him.

Because everybody's going to surround Justin Jefferson at the podium. And everyone's going

to surround Jonathan Grenard when he comes off the field or Blake Cashman or whoever.

I forget what year this was.

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