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This week's Game Week Podcast is a conversation with my favorite Chicago Bears fan! Viking Underground Podcast Twenty is a candid conversation with fellow Class of 1999 Visa Hall of Fans member and Chicago Bears fan "Bearman".
Bearman talks about his history; the recent upgrade at Soldier Field; the Bears offense and defense; and just how the Vikes could beat the Bears this Sunday. Bearman also tells us that Thomas Jones is very unlikely to play this Sunday. Hmmmmm.
The second part of the podcast was to have been a return visit by KSTP's sports director, Rod Simon, who hosts two shows weekly with Mike Tice. But Rod has been working triple overtime on the debacle on Lake Minnetonka plus filming Vikings Gameday with Mike Tice and just ran out of time....and energy.
But Rod promises he'll hook up with me next week and will make it a "special podcast" for all you listeners.
Weekend Rest
I leave you with the following information from the Pioneer Press as more information is sought in regards to The Story:
"[Boat] workers told Hennepin County sheriff's deputies they had to step over and around players and naked women engaged in sex acts on the floor, said their attorney, Stephen Doyle of Wayzata.
Meanwhile a Vikings player, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told the Pioneer Press he was on the lower level of one of the two charter boats. The player said there were strippers dancing and players shooting dice on the lower level. On the upper level, the player said, was "apparently" where more lascivious conduct occurred."
I follow with this quote from the STrib about Al and Alma Quist, who run the charter boat business involved:
"[John] Lambin, of Queen of Excelsior charters, said he knows that many members of Al & Alma's staff were excited and even honored that the Vikings chose them for their event.
Lambin recalls similar feelings when Bud Grant was coach of the Vikings and the team held a fundraiser on his boat.
"They were first-class and wonderful," Lambin said. "It's a different world now."
It's time for me to to monitor the reports as the investigation continues. But things just don't look good right now. Plus, there are now reports detectives are investigating accounts that photographs were taken of sex acts and those photos are being sought.
Paper bag anyone?
Posted by maasx003 at October 13, 2005 12:03 PM | TrackBackThe bag is an improvement
Posted by: Cheesehead Craig at October 14, 2005 10:51 AMWell I hope this is the final chapter in a poorly run organization that I love. Zygi had a press conference and it looks like he said what everyone wanted him to say. 1. The people involved will be punished. 2. He's waiting for the facts. That's all anyone could ask for. Now let's just hope it isn't DC or Williamson.
Posted by: Lonnie at October 14, 2005 01:48 PMSo true, Lonnie. I will really be let down if it is Daunte. If it is, he will have sealed his doom with the fans, and that is a shame...
Posted by: Shane at October 14, 2005 03:10 PMFolks, this thing could get really ugly, if the reports that the hookers were brought in from out of state are true. Transporting people across state lines for the purpose of engaging in prostitution is a Federal crime. All it takes is a federal prosecutor looking to make some headlines for this thing to become a constant bleeding wound for months on end. The type of enterprises which handle these services tend to be not so diligent on paying taxes, so there would be plenty of hay to make for an ambitious lawyer in the employ of the Feds. Picture your favorite football players testifying in open court as to what sex acts they enjoyed by which hookers hired by which interstate pimps.
Posted by: Anonymous at October 14, 2005 07:38 PMCoD, you might enjoy an amusing photoshop on a new football blog: http://www.illegalprocedure.com/screeds/2005/2
Thanks for your site!
Posted by: stuntdog at October 14, 2005 10:49 PMIdiot with bag on head (you must have been born and raised in MN): I still love the Vikes and will stick with them no matter what even through the tough times .. bag on your head: oooohhh .. so original.
Posted by: Bryce Anderson at October 15, 2005 07:37 PMIf placing a bag over one’s head in a mock display of utter embarrassment for a team in which its players displayed stupidity on so many levels is being an idiot, guilty as charged.
If placing a bag over one’s head in a mock display of utter embarrassment for a team that couldn’t just invite whores over to a private house but instead had to go out of state to procure them and then engage in sex acts in public is viewed as being an idiot, guilty as charged.
If by supporting the game of football and adding to the pot of money that supposedly causes athletes to act like this thereby leading to a pervasive atmosphere in this sick society that we live in causes me to place a bag of my head in a mock display of utter embarrassment and be an idiot, guilty as charged.
If placing a bag over one’s head in a mock display of utter embarrassment because 17 players have tarnished the image of the Vikings organization, the whole state, the NFL, and doomed any movement on a new sports stadium for the Gophers, Twins, or Vikings…….guilty as charged.
Guilty as charged. Guilty as charged!
But then, there is no limit to human stupidity as 17-players showed this week.
Excellent COD - if I didn't know you were a PURPLE RUBE I'd be upset - you took the bait - GO VIKES - Still in the hunt for the NFC North crown!
Posted by: Bryce Anderson at October 15, 2005 09:31 PMThe Strib is now reporting that Culpepper was on the boat.
Posted by: SBG at October 16, 2005 12:33 AM