For 4 Decades, Dennis Foy Has Painted Commemorative Minnesota Vikings Game Footballs

By John Lauritsen, CBS Minnesota

December 7, 2023

CIRCLE PINES, Minn. — Any given Sunday, win or lose, coach Kevin O'Connell gives Vikings players a post-game speech. And if they're lucky, he gives them a game ball. But before Danielle Hunter or Justin Jefferson can display their football at home, Dennis Foy has to get his hands on it.

"During the season it's rush, rush, rush," Foy said.

For nearly 40 years, he has been on the receiving end of footballs from the Vikings. They send him dozens each season along with emails about whose name they want on the game ball, and what they want it to say.

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