Vikes' Tice Target Of Scalping Probe

SI.com ^ | 3-8-05 | SI

[Rakkasan1]

Minnesota head coach Mike Tice is being investigated by the NFL for allegedly heading up and profiting from a Super Bowl ticket-scalping operation within the Vikings organization, a violation of NFL rules that league sources say has been going on for years.

Two investigators from the league's security staff, Larry Sweeney and John Keenan, were in the Twin Cities on Tuesday, questioning Tice in his office and speaking with Vikings running backs coach Dean Dalton, as well as other club personnel. The pair left the team complex in the afternoon to meet with the team's director of ticket sales, Phil Huebner, at the Metrodome, where Minnesota's ticket operations are headquartered.

[Rakkasan1]

next thing you know, there will be steroid use in the NFL. this is series.almost as hugh as coach Tice.

[patent]

The more things change at the Vikings, the more they stay the same. I forget, is there anyone on the team who doesn't have a rap sheet?

[ConservativeMan55]

I think Randy Moss is clean.

[Rakkasan1]

coach Green never did, but he did (allegedly) cheat on his mrs.
I don't think they even draft people with less than two
gross misdemeanors.

[Teplukin]

Moss is now with the Oakland Raiders.

My good sir, I suspect a conservative with impeccable credentials like yourself rightly regards the Raiders a terrorist organization. It is a scandal that NFL security is worrying about penny ante stuff like scalping, while the Oakland Raiders run amok thruout the Bay Area, committing acts deviancy, mayhem and insurrection.

[inkling]

Another reason I'm happy to be a Packers' fan!

[inkling]

"A lot of teams do it," said an NFL assistant who once worked for the Vikings. "Everybody can do it. Every team has a guy who takes care of moving the tickets. I'd hate to see it end because coaches have always used that as extra money. Coaches do count on that as a little extra deal. [Team] owners will probably stop doing it now, because they don't have to give us those tickets. "

What a bunch of greedy jerks! They need to break the law for even more money? How much is enough?!

[NCC-1701]

All I can say is that I'm glad that this isn't the Dallas Cowboys. They've had their share of problems and are working hard to rid themselves of an unhappy past. Better ye than thee.

[jocon307]

"What a bunch of greedy jerks! They need to break the law for even more money? How much is enough?!"

What you said!

[yooper]

"Minnesota head coach Mike Tice is being investigated by the NFL for allegedly heading up and profiting from a Super Bowl ticket-scalping operation within the Vikings organization, a violation of NFL rules that league sources say has been going on for years."

The Vikings have demonstrated that they can't win a Superbowl, what, three times? They might as well at least profit from one.

I have to give the Vikings credit for ridding itself of the cancer known as Randy Moss. Long overdue.

[Rakkasan1]

4 times. getting rid of Moss was addition by subtraction.

[Finalapproach29er]

Tice makes $800,000/yr -plus the money he made a player and coordinater->he ain't hurtin.

[Sonny M]

It is a scandal that NFL security is worrying about penny ante stuff like scalping, while the Oakland Raiders run amok thruout the Bay Area, committing acts deviancy, mayhem and insurrection.

Tsk, tsk.

You forgot pillaging, plundering, and laying waste to all.

I mean, they are Da Raiders.

[Ticonderoga34]

I think Randy Moss is clean.

Are you being sarcastic? Moss tried to run over a cop with his car a few years ago. If you or I did same thing we would gone to the state pen. Also I believe that Moss was charged with assault when he was in college.

[jinkagrl]

Go Vikings!

[crushkerry]

Got news for you. A good buddy of mine plays in the NFL. The players do this as well. Damn near every one of them. In fact, he got a phone call from a guy who was playing in the Super Bowl asking him to sell his tickets. Not saying it's right or wrong (I've never understood why "scalping" is illegal though), just saying it's commonplace among players. Not surprised coaches do it as well.

[PRND21]

Are you being sarcastic? Moss tried to run over a cop with his car a few years ago.

He did no such thing. Think autograph seeking meter maid.
As for the ticket income, I'll bet this is rampant throughtout all pro sports.

[cherry]

do you think that this investigation is happening now because the new owner wants to get rid of Tice?

[patent]

>>>>>>>>>Are you being sarcastic? Moss tried to run over a cop with his car a few years ago.

>>>He did no such thing.

He plead guilty to the misdemeanor for bumping her.

>>>Think autograph seeking meter maid.

Riiiiggghhtttt. Whatever, enjoy Randy, he's all yours.

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[patent]

>>>>I think Randy Moss is clean.

It would take a while to detail his record. He is far from clean, and I don't think he was clean even before he got to the viqueens.