By Kimberley A. Martin

Eric Decker grew up as the pride of Cold Spring, Minnesota, a rural town 77 miles northwest of Minneapolis with no more than three stoplights and about 4,000 people. And the Jets receiver expects to have a large cheering section at TCF Bank Stadium on the campus of the University of Minnesota, his alma mater, when the Jets play the Vikings on Sunday.

“Friends, family, everybody’s coming to the game,” he told Vikings writers on a conference call this past week. “It’s always fun to go somewhere where you know a lot of people and haven’t been for a while. So it will be an exciting time for me.”

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