Vikings Visit Junior Achievement BizTown, Become 'Citizens' for a Day
Lindsey Young
ST. PAUL - Vikings defensive tackle Harrison Phillips sat quietly in the town hall meeting, listening to the mayor's announcements.
Except it wasn't St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter speaking, and Phillips wasn't sitting in a chair but rather on a carpeted floor, his legs bent out in front of him.
The "mayor," rather, was a sixth-grade student from Alexandria, Minnesota, who