Huge Andrew Van Ginkel Fan
Even from the 80s
“Ohh cool dad.”#Vikings OLB Andrew Van Ginkel’s son Leo in the locker room 🤣
— VikingzFanPage (@vikingzfanpage) October 9, 2024
🎥: @Sam_VanGinkel via IG pic.twitter.com/JatvEBeqNh
Gink is awesome. Hope he finishes his career as a Viking.
SKOL VIKINGS :P
10+ sacks
— Minnesota Vikings (@Vikings) December 22, 2024
2+ Pick 6s@AndrewVanGinkel is the 2nd player since 1982 to hit the mark.#ProBowlVote pic.twitter.com/oWxxtPCVeX
Riding with Van Ginkel
By: Rob Kleifeld
The Van Ginkels sure know how to bring it on game days.
Andrew, the impressively humble, long-haired son of Rock Valley, Iowa, parties with sacks, tackles for losses and pick sixes, and generates national acclaim — not that he's the least bit interested by fame.
His wife Sam's specialty is embraced by a smaller cohort of Andrew fans, many of them journeying from their hometown of 4,000 on weekends when Minnesota hosts unlucky prey at U.S. Bank Stadium.
She coordinates a 55-person group (give or take a few each game) consisting of immediate and extended family, friends, and old coaches and classmates. Multiple generations of support rendezvous at 9 a.m. outside of the Van Ginkel home in Eden Prairie for high noon kickoffs, load onto a motorcoach and transform it into a party bus for the 40-ish minute ride featuring "Sam Shots" and the Vikings fight song.
Link to story: https://www.vikings.com/news/longform/andrew-van-ginkel-free-agency-family-hometown-friends-support. Cool story, glad he’s a Viking! :)
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