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Vikes' Tice Target Of Scalping Probe
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| 3-8-05
| SI
Posted on 03/08/2005 7:42:58 PM PST by 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.
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TOPICS: Sports
KEYWORDS: miketice; nfl; scalper; scalping; sports; tice; viking; vikings
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next thing you know, there will be steroid use in the NFL. this is series.almost as hugh as coach Tice.
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posted on
03/08/2005 7:43:00 PM PST
by
Rakkasan1
To: Rakkasan1
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?
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posted on
03/08/2005 7:47:01 PM PST
by
patent
(A baby is God's opinion that life should go on. Carl Sandburg)
To: patent
I think Randy Moss is clean.
3
posted on
03/08/2005 7:52:20 PM PST
by
ConservativeMan55
(DON'T FIRE UNTIL YOU SEE THE WHITES OF THE CURTAINS THEY ARE WEARING ON THEIR HEADS !)
To: patent
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.
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posted on
03/08/2005 7:53:56 PM PST
by
Rakkasan1
(Keep capitol punishment safe,legal , and rare...shoot the perp in the head.)
To: ConservativeMan55
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.
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posted on
03/08/2005 7:59:06 PM PST
by
Teplukin
To: Rakkasan1
Another reason I'm happy to be a Packers' fan!
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posted on
03/08/2005 8:00:39 PM PST
by
inkling
To: Rakkasan1
"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?!
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posted on
03/08/2005 8:04:40 PM PST
by
inkling
To: patent
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.
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posted on
03/08/2005 8:05:33 PM PST
by
NCC-1701
(ISLAM IS A CULT, PURE AND SIMPLE!!!!! IT MUST BE ERADICATED FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH.)
To: inkling
"What a bunch of greedy jerks! They need to break the law for even more money? How much is enough?!"
What you said!
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posted on
03/08/2005 8:07:42 PM PST
by
jocon307
(This stuff infuriates me.)
To: 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."
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.
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posted on
03/08/2005 8:12:51 PM PST
by
yooper
(If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there......)
To: yooper
4 times. getting rid of Moss was addition by subtraction.
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posted on
03/08/2005 8:14:51 PM PST
by
Rakkasan1
(Keep capitol punishment safe,legal , and rare...shoot the perp in the head.)
To: inkling
Tice makes $800,000/yr -plus the money he made a player and coordinater->he ain't hurtin.
To: Teplukin
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.
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posted on
03/08/2005 8:16:34 PM PST
by
Sonny M
("oderint dum metuant")
To: ConservativeMan55
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.
To: All
Go Vikings!
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posted on
03/08/2005 9:09:14 PM PST
by
jinkagrl
("I am shocked! ... Sort of." ~Rumsfeld)
To: Rakkasan1
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.
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posted on
03/08/2005 9:13:25 PM PST
by
crushkerry
(Visit www.anklebitingpundits.com for great original conservative commentary)
To: zert_28
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.
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posted on
03/09/2005 12:04:42 AM PST
by
PRND21
To: crushkerry; All
do you think that this investigation is happening now because the new owner wants to get rid of Tice?
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posted on
03/09/2005 12:13:46 AM PST
by
cherry
To: PRND21
>>>>>>>>>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.
patent
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posted on
03/09/2005 3:16:05 AM PST
by
patent
(A baby is God's opinion that life should go on. Carl Sandburg)
To: ConservativeMan55
>>>>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.
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posted on
03/09/2005 3:17:17 AM PST
by
patent
(A baby is God's opinion that life should go on. Carl Sandburg)
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