Official Site of the Vikings · Mar 8, 2017
Farming Roots Helped Greenway Reach 'Final Goal'
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. — The dream began with one of the earliest father-son talks Alan and Chad Greenway ever had on the farm.
Just 5 or 6 years old, Chad was holding the gate for his dad to feed cattle in Mount Vernon, South Dakota, and said he was “going to play professional football.”
“He looked at me like I was crazy,” Greenway recalled Tuesday morning in the Winter Park Fieldhouse when he stepped up to a podium to formerly announce his retirement after 11 seasons with Minnesota. “I’ll never forget he was like, ‘It’s going to take a lot of hard work, but it’s possible.’
