Minnesota Vikings News And Links, 7/18

We're getting close to the end of the week here in Minnesota Vikings country, folks! All of our favorite players should be getting to Mankato about this time next week, and we're a week away from the official start of Training Camp for the 2013 season.

Eric has put up a bunch of the highlights from the Minnesota Vikings' guide for Training Camp that we've been provided with, which is pretty awesome. If you've liked us on FaceBook. . .and, if you haven't, why not. . .Skol Girl is asking folks to give the names of some of their favorite watering holes and other places in Mankato as well.

Other than that, we put up two more match-ups in our Greatest Viking Of All Time Tournament, with Randy Moss battling Ahmad Rashad and Jared Allen going one-on-one with Pat Williams. Again, neither match-up is in suspense at this point, but you've got about an hour to get your votes in if you haven't done so already. The next two match-ups will go up at that time as well.

We'll hopefully have some more for you as the day goes on, ladies and gentlemen. Until then, the rules of the Open Thread are the same as always. . .no politics, no religion, no feeding the trolls, and keep the bad language to a minimum and/or use the spoiler tags if you're going to curse.

Our musical theme for this week marches forward. . .

With that, the beer light is on and the bar is open for Thursday, ladies and gentlemen! Enjoy the rest of your day, and we'll effort to have more stuff for you as the day goes on.