Posted on 10/17/2005 12:35:03 AM PDT by dennisw
Posted on Sat, Oct. 15, 2005
Strippers flown to party
Details emerge in Vikings' sexcapades
KNIGHT RIDDER NEWSPAPERS
ST. PAUL, Minn. - Strippers flew in for the party. Football players pulled up in limos. As a pair of chartered boats eased onto Lake Minnetonka, booze started flowing and, according to crew members, a sex party began.
Investigators now believe that the strippers from Atlanta, Florida and elsewhere who joined the party apparently work for a high-class escort or call girl service that caters to professional athletes, two law-enforcement officials said.
The party was a far cry from the typical gathering handled by Al & Alma's Supper Club and Charter Cruises, a mom-and-pop outfit in Mound, Minn., that one cop involved in the case called a "Perkins on the lake."
When a group of Minnesota Vikings players chose to party amid bartenders and hostesses accustomed to working family functions and company outings, the result was a major uproar.
Any criminal charges that come out of complaints about lewd behavior on the boats are likely to be minor, a law-enforcement official directly involved in the investigation said Thursday.
But as details about the Oct. 6 party emerge, the Vikings reel in a stream of negative national publicity.
The blowup stems at least in part from the choice to hire the boats and crews from Al & Alma's, two law-enforcement officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the case.
"Basically, it's a crime of stupidity," one of the officials said. 'We got naive young kids catering, watching 350-pound athletes" engaged in lewd conduct, said one of the officials. "There are probably only two or three other cities in the country where this incident would have happened and not made news or generated a complaint. I'm thinking Los Angeles, New York and possibly Chicago. That stuff doesn't go down well here."
Vikings owner embarrassed
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. - Minnesota Vikings owner Zygi Wilf is angry and embarrassed over accounts of drunkenness and sexual misbehavior by his players on a charter cruise, and said Friday the team will now have a conduct code.
Wilf, in his first comments since the boat party last week, said he has apologized to the governor. He also has spoken with his players, who will be held to a code demanding "high standards, high morals and success."
Stephen Doyle, a lawyer representing the boats' owners, has said cornerback Fred Smoot, formerly of Mississippi State, paid for one of the cruises on Lake Minnetonka. A total of about 90 people were present, Doyle said. They returned to shore more than two hours early when crew members complained of wild, lewd behavior.
These "strippers" seem to be the only way they can score.
I too don't 'buy' the product of professional sports - it's a turn-off for me. I actually enjoyed seeing Allen Iverson and Co. eat humble pie from the last Olympics. I'd rather see our college players represent the United States - though that will probably never be the case again.
I fail to see what is "high-class" in any of this.
I like the picture and I agree with your tagline!
And this is wrong for what reason? (tongue in cheek)
I stoped watching football years ago when I got a life.
The cops must be pi$$ed they wern't invited.
Since when has sports every imposed any standards on it's players, this is nothing new.
A High class stripper is one who isnt covered with tattoos and still has her teeth.
Yeah, right, real "high class."
It's REALLY "high class" to "go down" into a stranger's crotch and fellate him, or lie buck naked, on your back, and spread your legs for a total stranger.
This just means that they are very young, not drug addicts or alcoholics and haven't gotten HIV/AIDS, herpes or hepatitis yet.
Real "high class."
They ain't "girls" either. Another misnomer. They are real screwed up, isolated, dysfunctional women.
Heehee.
Not a pretty image before my second cup of coffee.
yuck, these girls are ugly!
>>SNORT!<< Oh that's mean, true, but mean. I'll remember it for the next "I can't get a date" thread. I'll just say "Hey, even the Vikings had to use strippers, OUT OF TOWN strippers at that!"
Barf.
Well, the ViQueens got 3 points yesterday, so the owner must be proud of his investment in these over-paid, over-sexed, under-talented loafers. They should have been studying their playbooks instead of getting into trouble.
You are right.
Nothing high class about prostitution.
Think about it. A woman has maybe five contacts a day, seven days a week. That is 35 men a week, 140 a month, 1,680 men a year. In ten years, she's "done" 16,800 men.
By then, at the ripe old age of 28, after 16,800 men, she usually has herpes, hepatitis, HIV/AIDS and is either a drunk or a drug addict. She might even have a baby or two.
We don't even mention the pimps, rapes or beatings.
Real "high class."
Glad to see I'm not the only one in America that doesn't give a rip about pro sports. Following the careers of criminals who sole purpose is to chase a ball around for people who pay thousands to watch is too alien a concept for me to absorb.
Way to close the barn door after the horses have bolted, Zygi.
Exactly Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth threw hooker parties. They just had enough sense to do it a private residence.
Thanks...we shall see..
Three lousy damn points agaist Da Bears.
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