Punishment All Around

"I guess they thought working for Red McCombs was punishment enough"

• It looks like Vikings coach Mike Tice will escape with just a fine for selling his Super Bowl tickets earlier this year. League rules prohibit such an activity and Tice could have faced a suspension.

"Thank God it wasn't twelve months"

• Raven's CB Samari Rolle received an 11 month 29 day probation for a domestic assault involving his wife Danisha back in February. Mrs. Rolle received three stitches for a cut over her eye after the incident. Samari, how many times do we have to tell you, if it isn't wearing a helmet with a facemask, you don't hit it.

"Just when you thought it couldn't get any Fowler"

• Reggie Fowler's problems raising the money necessary to obtain controlling interest in the Vikings continue. It is now being kicked around that two of his business partners might get involved it this ordeal. The names being mentioned...David Mandelbaum and Zygmunt (Zygmunt?) Wilf