Thursday, 08/28/2008

TickCo NFL Football Tickets: Vikings Tickets, Lions Tickets, Bills Tickets and more! Saueey sets up the goalposts for for TV Commercial Many tailgaters from our tribe share their stories in this really cool book. A magazine article featured Mookie's perspective on how to integrate females into the tailgating culture.

We've been seen tailgating on TV and have even been featured in news articles around the Twin Cities and beyond. From local cable TV to National Media, we have been featured as Vikings Maniacs.

Over the years our hearty band of Viking Tailgaters, aka, the Berserkers, have been featured on NFL Films, a Local Twin Cities Cable TV show, WCCO Channel 4, FOX Sports Pre-game and the Minneapolis Star & Tribune. This section of the webpage is intended to show off some of the media outlets that we have been featured in:

September 2007: The Minneapolis Star & Tribune's Aimee Blanchette interviewed Marcus "Mookie" Anderson for September 30th feature titled " Parking-lot picnics pose profit potential. The increasing popularity of tailgating is finally prompting retailers to get a piece of the pie." The story ran in the business section of the Sunday edition and included a few quotes from the Vikingstailgate.com Webmaster.

September 2007: KMSP Channel 9 with Todd Walker, and KSTP Channel 5 with Susanna Song were both in the tailgating lot with us on Opening Day vs. the Atlanta Falcons. Both stations had remote reporters in the lot with us, and several other tailgaters throughout their entire Morning Show coverage. The highlight of the day was when Vikings Owner Zygi Wilfe joined us in the lot, shook some hands, kicked some field goals and gave our "tribe" an impromptu pep speech.

August 2007: WCCO Channel 4 lead story on the 10:00 PM News. When news of the Vikings backing out of their deal to purcahse parking lots from the Star & Tribune broke, Mookie received a call from Esme Murphy requesting an interview. She and a photographer drove out to Lakeville, MN and shot an interview in his basement Sports Bar & Office. Video Coming Soon!

December 2006: Featured on KMSP Fox 9 Morning News Remote prior to the New York Jets Game. Kansas Vike, Justin (Next One), and the Battlewagon Boys were interviwed by KMSP's Todd Walker throughout the entire morning. Video is coming soon.

December 2006: Featured in the book, Purple People
This brand new book by Ried Holien truly captures the essence of what it's like to be Viking's fan. In a dynamic ethographic sort of compilation, one can smell the brats in the lot, hear the dome burst with the sound of horns and feel the pain of Nordic Choking. The book highlights several diehard Vikings fans, many of whom park in the same lot as the VIKINGSTAILGATE.com Regulars on any given Sunday. BUY THIS BOOK!

November 2006: St. Paul Pioneer Press
Mookie was featured, along with Doug from the Battlewagon in a tailgating feature story called, "Grill-iron rivalry"

October 2006: Metro Magazine
Mookie from Vikingstailgate.com quoted in recent Metro magazine article about tailgating.

September 2006: Playbook Magazine, Minnesota Vikings
Mookie's Tailgating Rituals story was published in the September 24th edition of the Vikings Game Day program. As a guest of the team, he was invited to sit on the field and brought his brother, Brent.

October 2005: KMSP Morning Show
Mookie appeared on the KMSP morning show. A remote location, live from the Metrodome from 6 am to 9 am, M.A Rosko, Chef Andrew Zimmern, Mookie, and the Vikings cheerleaders showed the Twin Cities audience what the border-battle rivalry was all about.

August 2004: Cub Foods Commercial
Although we weren't invited to "act" in this commercial, our goalposts were rented for use in a Cub Foods ad which featured tailgaters from the "Purple Dawgs" tailgating tribe.

December 1999: Minneapolis Star & Tribune's Fan Cam
The Tribune brought out a crew to do a live Fan Cam broadcast from Mookies home in Eagan. Maybe a video cast would have been better, but the experiment was worth the effort (think about all testing one has to do to make sure things cam evolve) and the Famous Daves food was awesome.

November 1999: WCCO News on Twin Cities Channel 4

September 1999:Minneapolis Star & Tribune: Feature Story
Our first generation website was chosen as a Top 10 Vikings site.

1999: Ripped Off With Keith King, Cable Access TV

1998- Present: The Commissioner of NFL Tailgating

1999: NFL Films

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