Daily Norseman
Rookies are reporting to training camp today. I wonder if any true doofi will be camped out to see them walk in the building.
All the nonsense is about to be ramped up again after the summer hiatus.
The first training camp practice is 6 days away.
Rookie Arrival: First-year players report to the TCO Performance Center in Eagan, Minnesota, on July 26.
Veteran Arrival: Returning players and full-squad activities begin two days later on July 28.
2026 Vikings Training Camp Full Schedule
https://www.vikings.com/schedule/vikings-events/training-camp/schedule
DATE : TIME : PRACTICE
Saturday, Aug. 1 : Noon- 5 p.m. : 2:30 p.m.
Monday, Aug. 3 : Noon – 5 p.m. : 2:30 p.m.
Tuesday, Aug. 4 : Noon – 5 p.m. : 2:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Aug. 5 : Noon – 5 p.m. : 2:30 p.m.
Friday, Aug. 7 : Noon – 5 p.m. : 2:30 p.m.
Saturday, Aug. 8 : Noon – 5 p.m. : 2:30 p.m.
Sunday, Aug. 9 : 5 – 11 p.m. : 7 p.m.
Tuesday, Aug. 11 : Noon – 5 p.m. : 2:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Aug. 12 : Noon – 5 p.m. : 2:30 p.m.
Thursday, Aug. 13 : Noon – 5 p.m. : 2:30 p.m.
Monday, Aug. 17 : Noon – 5 p.m. : 2:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Aug. 19 : Noon – 5 p.m. : 2:30 p.m. : Joint Practice with Baltimore Ravens
Thursday, Aug. 20 : Noon – 5 p.m. : 2:30 p.m. : Joint Practice with Baltimore Ravens
The Minnesota Vikings 2026 preseason schedule features three matchups
Week 1: Saturday, August 15 at New York Giants (1:00 PM ET)
Week 2: Saturday, August 22 vs. Baltimore Ravens (12:00 PM ET)
Week 3: Friday, August 28 at Denver Broncos (Time TBD)
After 47 years with the Vikings, an equipment manager gets his Hall of Fame moment
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7463786/2026/07/24/vikings-equipment-manager-dennis-ryan/
For more than four decades, Dennis Ryan mostly escaped the headlines. He did what he was determined to do: remain unheralded, contribute in a way where you’d have to know to really know. Ryan did his job and left the Minnesota Vikings’ facility later than anyone else without extra praise or prestige.
He was a fixer, confidant, mechanic, barista, manager, planner and innovator. Vikings Hall of Famer John Randle equated Ryan to the person, cloaked head to foot in soot, who shovels coal into a train engine without the passengers ever seeing his face. Former Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousins respected Ryan so much that he recently sent him a lengthy voice memo detailing the extent of his reverence.
Reach out to any well-known wearer of purple, and they will rave about Ryan.
“People talk about Bud Grant being the cornerstone of the Vikings, the identity of the Vikings, who the Vikings were and are, and who they should be,” former Minnesota linebacker and coach Pete Bercich said. “I would have to put Dennis Ryan tied with him or 1B because he is the man who put Bud Grant’s vision into reality.”
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