Benchwarmer Bob

[Vikesrock]

I think it was around 1995 when I first found the Bob Lurtsema's Vikings Update messaging board.  I was on dial up in the military living in Darmstadt Germany.  I discovered the magazine as well, somehow that led me to here now a days through different messaging boards:

[StickierBuns]

Loved it....had a subscription for a couple years that came in the mail, starting in 9th grade. Even had a letter to the editor published!

[JimmyinSD]

I was late to the party, didnt have time for the internet for entertainment until my kids got older and were help out more around the farm and take a little off my plate. I think I found VU around 05 or 06, ( it was something to do while waiting in the middle of the night for my deployed brother to call or MSN message me from the ME) lurked for a while and then jumped in around 07 when we drafted AD.

[ArizonaViking]

I think it was around 1995 when I first round the Bob Lertesma's Vikings Update.  I was on dial up in the military living in Darmstadt Germany.  I discovered the magazine as well, somehow that led me to here now a days through different messaging boards:

Yeppers...I had a subscription for years.  I really enjoyed reading the coverage of the draft picks and free agents each year.

[supafreak84]

Mid-90's subscriber myself. Pre-internet, VU was must have living in California. I remember hanging the player posters up in my garage that came in the different issues. I had rookie Randy Moss wearing #18 hung up. That was my favorite.

[Vikesrock]

I was late to the party,  didnt have time for the internet for entertainment until my kids got older and were help out more around the farm and take a little off my plate.  I think I found VU around 05 or 06, ( it was something to do while waiting in the middle of the night for my deployed brother to call or MSN message me from the ME)  lurked for a while and then jumped in around 07 when we drafted AD.

I think the original site was Viking Underground, and then changed to Vikings Update at some point when Lurtsema bought it.  I can't remember the exact time line of that.  So I may have been getting the magazines prior to the Vikings Update message board.

One story to add, when I was a kid, my dad had a Pro Football Almanac. In the Almanac under the teams information, they had apparently published a phone number for marketing or something...Anyways, one of the most trouble I got in when I was a kid, was in 1982 during the first NFL strike, I called the number for the Minnesota Vikings and had a conversation with the whomever answered the phone about how the strike was stupid and they need to play and whatever. I don't have first hand recollection, it was a story my dad told later on and when he realized who I was on the phone with...Apparently it was a pretty pricy long distance call..

[hogjowlsjohnny]

Those were the days where you couldn't get any information about the Vikings if you lived out of state. Now it is information overload and much of it crap!

[Montana Tom]

Those were the days where you couldn't get any information about the Vikings if you lived out of state. Now it is information overload and much of it crap!

So true.  
I moved away from Minnesota in 1976 and in the late '70s could occasionally get Duluth TV with Vikings news.  Occasionally. 
Got worse.  In '86 I moved to Colorado (obviously pre-Interweb), and forget it.
Thank heavens today I can get EXACTLY the same news and updates as all my Vikings brethren (and sistah's) around the world.
Progress is an interesting and sometimes wonderful thing

[hogjowlsjohnny]

So true.  
I moved away from Minnesota in 1976 and in the late '70s could occasionally get Duluth TV with Vikings news.  Occasionally. 
Got worse.  In '86 I moved to Colorado (obviously pre-Interweb), and forget it.
Thank heavens today I can get EXACTLY the same news and updates as all my Vikings brethren (and sistah's) around the world.
Progress is an interesting and sometimes wonderful thing

Yeah. I left in 1974 and moved to Nebraska. We were starved for Vikings news back then and I think that is a major reason I am here now!

[kmillard]

Subscriber from the mid 80s (mom gave me a subscription for my birthday one year) and kept it till the early 2000s. Was a welcome treasure trove of news that you couldn't get anywhere else at the time. I miss it)))