I beg to differ....
Here's a pro ball class act.
He's playing on Monday Night tonight... going for a 6-0 record.
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.
It seems they broke the "cabaret ordiance." Wow.
http://www.lmcd.org/pages/Chapter3.htm#3.075
Didn't the Vikes some years ago have a former Marine offcier as head coach. They hated him..he ran the training camp like Parris Island...maybe they should bring him back..
Les Steckel
Yeah, they went 2-14 with him, and fired him the next year.
Are they trying to tell me, that in one of the bluest states in the union, "strippers" have to imported from red states? What is the point of living in a liberal state if you have to import sin?
so..thay can't do any worse..
so..they can't do any worse..
that was probably quite an eye opener for Al and Alma ....
Your point exactly about pro athletes - I doubt if this kind of behavior is rare or exclusive the the Vikings - 'athletes' get 'access' to females starting when the 'interest' first appears and it doesn't stop - what do you think 'Pep' clubs are for? Not for attending church on Sunday.
It was funny listening to Michael Irvin talk about the Cow-pokes exploits on the Dan Patrick Show on Friday. Evidently, they had the "White House", a house that five players purchased in a secluded area where they could go and have all of the fun they wanted and no one would know. Seems to me that this is a professional athlete problem, not just a Minnesota problem.
The question is, what is the over/under on the number of weeks that Tice coaches this team? I'm going out on a limb and saying 3.
Rule of thumb: If you pay for sex, you are not a stud.
I believe Wilt Chamberlain and Gene Simmons are up around that number, but few look down upon them for it much as they do prostitutes.
LMAO good rule.
He is just angry that this went public. All professional contracts contain decency and behavior clauses that can warrant the voiding of the contract and/or heavy fines. If he is really angry heads would have rolled and players would have been benched.
Perhaps Randy wasn't the cancer on this team?
One of the many unfair things in life.
Besides, I just don't believe Wilt. Sorry. He's lying or delusional. Perhaps it's merely wishful thinking or marketing to sell a book.
Well, they were the 1969 NFL Champions, so that counts as something.
I beg to differ....
Here's a pro ball class act.
He's playing on Monday Night tonight... going for a 6-0 record.
Lots of myths about Wilt out there. After he died I saw at least three or four articles talking about his athletic prowess and each said he could run a 4.4 40 yard dash. I still don't believe it. First off, in Wilt's day they didn't really run and time the 40 yard dash. It was developed later for football players, who rarely have to run more than 40 yards on a given play. Second, in Wilt's day a 4.4 40 would have been world class speed. He would of been possibly the fastest sprinter in the world at that speed and I'm not buying it. Wilt was an Olympic shotputer, they should leave it at that when it comes to his track and field career.
There are of course a number of NFL players I really do like, like Peyton Manning. But I despise some of the thugs in college and professional sports. With a genuine code of conduct, these people would be weeded out and sent home permanently, Some of the owners and coaches simply don't care, as long as they "win baby win."
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