Training Camp Dates are Set

disaacs · Joined: 13 Dec 2005 Posts: 19967 Location: Brownbackistan

In 2012, the Vikings will call Mankato their summer home for the 47th consecutive season...Players will report to camp on Thursday, July 26 and the team will break camp three weeks later on Thursday, August 16.

http://www.vikings.com/news/article-1/2012-Verizon-Vikings-Training-Camp-Dates-Released/8ed9bfd1-3a3b-4ac6-8dc0-d54399b424f2
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vike daddy · Joined: 12 Mar 2005 Posts: 66596

Specific practice dates and times have not yet been finalized, but this will be the longest training camp for the Vikings since a three-week stay in 2008.

Counting the number of days from the first to the last open-to-the-public practices, the Vikings were in Mankato for 14 days or fewer in each of the last three years.

http://min.scout.com/2/1186984.html
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TearsOfPurple · Joined: 17 Oct 2010 Posts: 526 Location: Mankato

Can't wait! Me and my friends always make it a great training camp.
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disaacs · Joined: 13 Dec 2005 Posts: 19967 Location: Brownbackistan

Not that I've ever been to a training camp, but I find it beneficial that they are actually going for a longer period this year. Over the last few years, it seems that the training camps have gotten shorter and shorter, and the team seems to play worse as a result.
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Vikefan79 · Joined: 05 Apr 2005 Posts: 25081 Location: Atlanta

I haven't been to training camp since the year we signed Warren Moon. Embarassed

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vike daddy · Joined: 12 Mar 2005 Posts: 66596

The Vikings can stay longer on campus, because the residence hall they've usually stayed in is slated for eventual demolition. No new students will be moving into the Gage towers this fall. So that gives the players more time to live that dorm-room, cafeteria-dining, playbook-studying life.

Brian Robison: "As a player, it stinks. We all know training camp is a long, grueling process. It's not fun, but it's part of the job."

Kyle Rudolph: "This year will kind of be like getting back to normal. Last year, it didn't even feel like we were down there. Especially because we have such a young team of guys, to be able to take advantage of the extra week to get to know each other and be away from Eden Prairie and any distractions we may have up here is great. The only think you have to worry about down in Mankato is football. You're down there long enough to clear your head."

http://www.startribune.com/sports/vikings/152674865.html
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vikingsrule · Posted: Wed May 23, 2012 10:24 am Post subject:

Interesting, the young guys only a year or two removed from college dont seem to mind mankato, but the older vets really seem to have a dislike for it. which makes sense, being a young college grad vs a late 20s, early 30s type, your at completely different stages in your life and im sure those three weeks in mankato take its toll.

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