While I'm happy with the Vikings current winning streak and their improved play, I will reserve judgment and praise of their recent performance until after this week's game with the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Pittsburgh is a good team with an 8-5 record. They will provide the toughest competition that the Vikings have faced in the past six weeks.
We will finally see if the Vikings are a legitimate playoff contender.
Now I want to return to an old story called Cruisegate where alleged Vikings players took part in a sex party with prostitutes on board a Minnesota cruise.
It seems as if winning is the only thing that matters to Minnesota's media, fans and Vikings ownership.
Now that the Vikings are winning, the media seems to have shelved this story. The media was convinced that some Vikings players exhibited horrible, immoral and even illegal behavior.
To date media and law enforcement officials have not exonerated Vikings players who allegedly took part in Cruisegate. In fact at least one law enforcement agency has turned the case over to prosecutors to be reviewed.
We're now waiting to see what the FBI and Hennepin County Sheriff's Office does with the case.
Can we assume that the media only reports wrongful and illegal behavior of professional athletes when sports teams in their city are losing? Does the media only care about winning?
I'm not sure of the answers to those questions but it does look like it.
The fans are also to blame for the story being shelved. When the Vikings were losing, fans were outraged by the Vikings alleged actions in Cruisegate. The fans were demanding that law enforcement and team officials take action.
Now that the Vikings are winning they don't seem to care about Cruisegate anymore. They only seem to care that their team is winning.
The ownership of the Vikings also seems to have turned a blind eye to the whole affair. Shortly after the story about Crusiegate was made public, Vikings owner Zygi Wilf held a press conference. He promised the community of the Twin Cities that his team would deal with the players involved and that they would be disciplined.
He wasn't even denying the alleged actions of his players. Now that his team is winning, he seems to have forgotten his promise to the people of Minnesota.
The actions of the media, Vikings fans and Vikings ownership are terrible. I believe that they only care about winning football games. Doing the right thing, being a good and productive citizen and following the law seems to mean nothing to the media, fans and ownership.
As long as the Vikings are winning, it seems as if it's ok for Vikings players to do what they want. They are free to urinate on someone's lawn and then allegedly take part in a sex party with prostitutes. I guess it's a win win situation for the devil, isn't it.
Anthony B. is the founder and owner of http://www.ItsTheRightWay.com a news, political and sports commentary website.
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