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: 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!
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.