If the allegations are true, it’s awful. We
understand that athletes aren’t necessarily role models, but we at
least expect them to abide by the basic laws of the state. Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty
How sad is it when the biggest news about the team you grew up dying to beat is about something that didn’t even happen on the
football field? Of course, with the Vikings mailing in their first four
games this year, a good sex scandal might be just what the team needs
to divert the attention of fans and the media from their miserable 1-3
start.
Personally, I don’t much care what adults do in their spare time.
It’s a free country, and when you have a collection of large men hopped
up on testosterone and possessing more money than sense, what do you
think is going to happen? Of course, If laws were broken, then the
legal system should be allowed to do what it does. If not, then those
folks who in the meantime all falling all over themselves in fits of
righteous, moralizing indignation need to just shut the hell up.
Of course, given that the Vikings were a team in disarray before
this alleged incident occurred, it’s not as if this is going to make
putting Humpty Dumpty back together again any easier.
The names of 17 Minnesota Vikings who were
identified as being aboard two charter boats last week where sex
parties allegedly took place have been given to Vikings officials in a
controversy that has put the team’s bid for a new stadium and its
standing among fans and community leaders in jeopardy.
At
least six crew members who allege they were confronted with
out-of-control Vikings players on the boats met Wednesday with Hennepin
County Sheriff’s detectives who are investigating allegations of
prostitution and lewd behavior….
The claims involve
players aboard two boats on Lake Minnetonka. Because of the ongoing
investigation, the repercussions are hard to gauge. But what is known
is this: The NFL once again is monitoring a legal issue involving the
Vikings, anti-stadium opponents are having a field day, public
relations is at its lowest point in memory and the Vikings are the butt
of jokes.
At the time of the party, Vikings officials
were heavily lobbying state legislators to convene a special session to
get public funding for a stadium….
No one has been
charged with a crime in connection with the charter boat cruises, which
occurred last Thursday night on Lake Minnetonka….
Employees
of the boat company and a resident of the lake community of Mound
described players having public sex, drinking heavily, urinating on a
lawn and aggressively propositioning female crew members.
Yep, just a bunch of rich, randy, spoiled athletes having some good,
clean fun during their bye week…or breaking a few laws along the way.
Who knows what actually happened? Hey, you must as well get your fun in
now. Before too much longer, winter will descend on the Frozen Tundra,
and the only things on Lake Minnetonka will be snowmobiles. Kinda tough
to have a sex party on one of those, eh??
