Star Tribune · Jul 30, 2018
Mankato businesses quiet on Vikings' first training-camp weekend
Jon Mueller is the owner of Jonny B’s, a bar and restaurant at University Square in Mankato, near where the Vikings used to hold training camp.MANKATO – This was the first weekend of full-squad workouts for the Vikings. Considering the comfortable weather and the anticipation that the 42-year Super Bowl drought will soon end, there would have been more than 10,000 fans over the two days on “The Hill’’ to watch walk-throughs and practices and to seek autographs.
The upper campus of Minnesota State Mankato is located on The Hill, and that includes the dormitory, the fieldhouse, the office space, the practice fields and the stadium that was home to Vikings training camp from 1966 to 2017.
