Stu is counting on this being long enough ago that we can all laugh. Wait, didn't we all laugh when it happened? Anyway, Stu?
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The Huntdown
Name: The "Love Boat" Incident
Claim to Fame, Minnesota: on October 6, 2005, members of the Purple chartered two boats to cruise Lake Minnetonka. And by "cruise Lake Minnetonka," I mean re-enact Caligula. It takes a lot for something to be the most notorious Vikings-related incident this decade (41-Donut, Korey Stringer, Koren Robinson, the Randy Ratio, the Parking Cop, the Ticket Scalping, Arctic Blast, The Stairwell, the Favre Helicopter Chase, StarCaps, Spergon Wynn starting two games at QB), but unless Jared Allen drives a stolen monster truck into Winter Park and burns it to the ground before December 31st, I'm pretty sure this is the winner.
Claim to Fame, Everywhere Else: an inaugural member of the Deadspin Hall of Fame AND the subject of a term paper entitled, "The Vikings Sex Boat Scandal from a Foucaultian Perspective," which seems a bargain at $59.75. Get yours today!
Where They Are Now: of the players listed in the Wiki rundown, only three remain with the Vikings: Bryant McKinnie, Kevin Williams, and Pat Williams. As to some of the rest:
•Fred Smoot. The rumored mastermind behind the whole operation is back with the Washington Redskins, but the jokes involving Smoot and his penchant for taking Ernie Banks' famous saying to a different level? Those, those are ours.
