Excerpt from The Scrub.
October 21, 2018Update on THE SCRUB. A YA novel set in Green Bay.
October 21, 2018
The Vikings were the first Euros to discover America. They sailed across the North Sea and Atlantic Ocean in their long boats, landed in Nova Scotia, and moved all the way inland to Minnesota. It was there that they first began playing soccer with a pig's bladder. Then the ancestors of Bud Grant picked up the bladder one day and ran with it to steal it, hoping for an easy lunch, and the other players tried to tackle them. When the thieves of the bladder were tackled, the Vikings' giant rally horns blew on the sidelines, and on that fateful day the game of football was
