Kyler Murray becomes the latest in the long legacy of Black quarterbacks Minnesota Vikings have trusted to lead their offense.
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Rondale Moore’s Death Renews Focus on Mental Health in the NFL
Mental health in the NFL is under renewed scrutiny after the death of Rondale Moore, raising concerns about brain injury, stigma and emotional isolation in professional football.
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Vikings Part Ways With General Manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah After Four Seasons
The Vikings fire Kwesi Adofo-Mensah after four seasons, ending an analytics-driven era and signaling another leadership shift for the franchise.
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Are costly NFL games pricing out Black fans?
Black NFL fans are not attending games in person due to the high cost of tickets, parking, food, and merchandise.
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Viking receivers on dreams come true
Brandon Powell and Jalen Nailor have both scored touchdowns in each of the Minnesota Vikings’ first three games this season, marking the first time since 2018 that two players have done so in the NFL.
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Racist attacks against Vikings’ Mattison echo Hank Aaron’s treatment
‘While unacceptable and disgusting, I’m not shocked at all. Some fans don’t respect Black athletes, they just like being entertained by them.’
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NFL’s sports medicine pipeline taps ‘underrepresented groups’
‘I think the most important thing with this program is watching some of these young students eventually get opportunities in the NFL, which is what the pipeline is all about.’
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NFL internship inspires Hamline coach
Recently Hamline Football Coach Chip Taylor did his own in-service career development regimen by spending time with the NFL’s Pittsburgh Steelers.
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What the sports media got right (and wrong) in covering Damar Hamlin’s injury
When disaster strikes on a live sports broadcast, it’s easy to say something wrong, especially in an age where words can be distributed widely, dissected and criticized on social media.
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Sanders criticized for doing what White coaches do all the time
Once it became public that Deion Sanders was being courted for the Colorado football job, social media and pundits quickly got their criticism dandruff up.
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Diverse hiring up at NFL League Office
The NFL’s racial hiring score went down from last year’s but its gender hiring score went up according to a new report.
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Hope for Prescott
Prescott injured his thumb in the fourth quarter of this past Sunday’s season-opening 19-3 loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
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New Vikings GM confident he hired the best head coach
Hired by the Minnesota Vikings back in January, Kwesi Adofo-Mensah is now a GM.
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Flag football gains momentum with Vikings support
The Minnesota Vikings have joined several NFL teams to help support girls’ flag football leagues in their team’s local areas.
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HBCU players strong contenders in NFL Draft
‘You take any of the prospects, they will fit on the Vikings roster.’
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2022 NFL Draft ‘Pro Day’ job interviews
Bishop McDonald (Oakdale, Minn.) was one of 13 former Gophers who worked out on March 16 on ‘Pro Day.’
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Flores resists NFL’s forced arbitration threat
‘The American people are being hoodwinked, bamboozled, and led astray by the malignant presence of forced arbitration.’
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Fallout from NFL lawsuit continues
Adofo-Mensah had at least 11 qualified Black candidates to choose from in hiring the new Vikings coach.
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Lawsuit exposes NFL’s longstanding racism
‘The process for Black coaches revolves around two outcomes: one and done or never.’
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Vikings announce Kwesi Adofo-Mensah as the new general manager
Calling it a new era, the Minnesota Vikings announced that Kwesi Adofo-Mensah will take over as the new general manager.