On Sunday, we lost one of the true titans of the NFL media, and a man that many of us have been reading for many years.
Don Banks, who was a beat writer for the Minnesota Vikings in the mid-1990s before gaining greater prominence as a writer for Sports Illustrated, passed away in his Canton, Ohio hotel room on Sunday. He was just 56 years old, and just hours before had been sending out tweets from the Pro Football Hall of Fame induction ceremony in Canton.
Banks worked for both the Minneapolis Star-Tribune and the St.