Folks often complain that the justice system moves slowly. On Thursday, the speed of one Minnesota federal court properly should conjure visions of geese and grease.
A reader forwarded to us the Associated Press item from WCCO regarding the NFL’s efforts to take the StarCaps case back to federal court. The blurb bore a time stamp of 1:41 p.m. CT, less than two hours before this posting.
So I wrote up our own item on the unexpected development, after sending out requests for more info to the NFL and attorney Peter Ginsberg, who represents Vikings defensive tackles Pat and Kevin Williams.
Per Ginsberg, Judge Paul Magnuson already has denied the NFL’s request.
The ruling issued Thursday, a day after the request was filed, states that the NFL’s effort to return to federal court “seems calculated only to avoid trial on the merits, and in this Court’s opinion, borders on abuse of process.”
Wow.
It’s rare that the NFL loses in Court. (But not as rare as it used to be.) It’s virtually unprecedented for the NFL to take a public knuckle-smacking.
And now the NFL has to stand trial before a state-court judge who might have reason to be a little bit miffed, to say the least, about the league’s eleventh-hour shenanigans.
Advantage, Williamses.
Advantage, 2010 Vikings.
suck it, Goodell
pwnt.
Chillt picked up the judge in his SUV to take out to the love boat for a quicj gang b–
NFL just move on and say you lost!! How about we make sure there is going to be football in 2011??
The wall stays intact….. Suck it…Green Bay!
@toddm6d “suck it, Goodell”
What does this have to do with Rodger Goodell?
He enforces rules and regualations, most of the rules, ie: drug testing have been installed long before he took over.
So bascially what you are saying is, it is ok that 31 teams have to obey the rules of drug testing but the Vikings do not?
Because they can “hid” behind state law?
So how is that fair at all to the other 31 teams? I’m confused at your hatred?
Unfortunately that also means Advantage Will Smith & Charles Grant.
good to hear this guy isnt going to let the NFL set its own rules and act like its bigger than the areas in which it plays. Minnesota has some pretty sensible laws in regards to stuff like this, and no rule in the NFL supercedes the law of the state that the game is played in.
If after all is said and done, the NFL has the legal grounds to suspend the players for the 4 games, I’m 100% in support of it, but dicking around the way they have is not how things should be done. Grats to judge for seeing that.
Your wrong, after the NFL filed against Al Davis and the Raiders years ago the Raiders filed a counter claim against the NFL.
Al Davis and the Raiders not only beat the NFL but thumped them and not only scratched the knuckles but broke the knee caps as well. The Raiders and Al Davis was awarded millions.
The funny part is to this day the media writes as if it was Al Davis that started the Court case. It was not, and once the NFL started the battle Big Al finished it.
Cheaters prosper if you are employed in Minnesota.
Return of the “wow.” one liners! Over inflating articles at its best! You can count on Florio.
What a surprise. A Minnesota judge ruled in favor of the vikings again. I’m shocked.
Typical Viking BS, cheat, get caught, avoid consequences, get on the wrong side of karma, lose the NFC championship game in what can only be described as unusual circumstances and then act like you didn’t really deserve it.
Just great aint it!!
I’m glad the thing is over with, we all know the only reason the Saints beat the Vikings was because of star ca…………… oops, never mind!
The Vikings have Favre… who tosses picks at the “eleventh-hour”. The Vikings kicked Darren Sharper to the curb… Sharper now sports a ring. The Williams wall is aging. A.P. is a fumbling machine. Percy Harvin gets headaches. Brad Childress is the Vikings head coach. Brett Favre has Chilly’s balls in a cup on his tractor. The Vikings always come sooo close… yet soooo far. The Vikings have 4 empty trophy cases. Vikings fans are forced to dress up in purple.
I just gave Vikings fans 10 good reasons why it’s good to wear cheese on ones head instead of a Swiss Miss wig.
Boom. You all suck.
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA…. HA… HA… HA!!!!
…teeeeeeeeeeeeheheheheheheeeee… he…he…heee!!!
*more snickering*
BBBBBBBBWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHA!!!
The Vikings have been to 4 Super Bowls!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND THEY LOST ALL 4!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
…heheheheheheheheheheh… suck to be their fans!!
So Minnesota courts upheld the right of Vikings players to cheat? Awesome. They can’t even get a ring with help from the justice system…
You Queens will never beat the NFL, believe me.
It’s one way or the other, know what I mean?
To: Charlie Wood (aka Packer Apologist).
Here are 4 things you forgot to mention:
The Vikings swept the packers.
The packers never sacked Favre.
The packers never intercepted Favre.
The Vikings advanced farther in the playoffs than the packers (nice defense Green Bay – EIGHT tds in one game?!?! LOVE the new 3-4!).
Suck THAT cheesehead!
To: Charlie Wood (aka Packer Apologist).
Here are 4 things you forgot to mention:
The Vikings swept the packers.
The packers never sacked Favre.
The packers never intercepted Favre.
The Vikings advanced farther in the playoffs than the packers (nice defense Green Bay – EIGHT tds in one game?!?! LOVE the new 3-4!).
Suck THAT cheesehead!
12 Championships.
F*ck Green Bay and their fans.
Mark Chmura was a stand up citizen, wasn’t he?
kibawib says:
March 4, 2010 5:18 PM
To: Charlie Wood (aka Packer Apologist).
EIGHT tds in one game?!?! LOVE the new 3-4!
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Which game was that?
A lot of people seem to think this means the case is over.
*Insert reading comprehension joke here*
so chris — what you are saying is if your dog pisses on the carpet….. it’s ok to wait 3 months to discipline him.
A motion to have Federal Court decide an issue with interstate commerce issues was denied in Minnesota state court.
No participant won anything except attorneys billing for bs hours.
These NFL rulebreakers still have not served their suspensions for taking a steroid making agent in violation of the NFL’s substance abuse policy.
They have delayed serving the their suspensions from the NFL through every angle a lawyer ripping them off can find. They have been whining in federal court and are still awaitng to go on trial in state court.
Regardless of whenever the rulebreakers finally serve their suspensions, the union has caused a lot of trouble with this part of the labor agreement. A lot of negotiating time spent working the new CBA will be taken with this issue.
If there is a ruling that there are different testing requirements for teams in different states, then the NFL has the right to test more rigorously in some states than others.
Certainly there would be more, and more frequent drug testing done in Minnesota than in other states.
The more aggressive NFL drug testing done in Minnesota than other NFL states will be be justified and fair.
I don’t really get the people on here saying that they cheated. Please explain how taking a diaretic is cheating? The NFL has even said there was no suspicion of Steriod use. I also love how Charlie Wood is naming off all these reasons why the Vikings suck yet ignores the fact that the Vikings have won the division the past couple of years. The Vikings even won the Division with Gus Ferotte playing 12 games!!!!! The Vikings might be one of the most cursed franchises ever but they were better than the Pack the last two seasons and will be this next year as well.
wouldn’t this judge and the case being in MN be a double conflict of interest …. this should be held in a completely different state with a judge who is not from MN …. talk about a joke …. how is it 31 teams all abide by the rules agreed upon by ALL the NFL while the 2 fatass Vikings and also the rest of the team have no rules to follow …. but the funny thing is they still can’t win …. they had the CUPCAKE schedule last year and this year it gets a little , i mean lot, harder …. have fun boys, i mean cheaters
The stupid thing about the NFL’s dumbass move, in direct contradiction of previous federal court orders all the way through the appellate court process redirecting the case back to state court in the first place, is that after the state court order on the summary judgment motions, the NFL has a better chance of winning than it did before the motions. Now they piss off the judge and delay the process further. The next thing we’ll hear is an NFL press release about how it’s the players complicating and delaying the very process the NFL has now dicked around with for 9 months.
Of course cheesers accuse Viking players of slowing down the wheels of justice when their own codine-selling defensive lineman delays his criminal court trial date past the NFL free agency period in attempt to get a higher tender from the Packers. If karma’s a bitch, then that must be why the Pack fumbled away its only playoff game in two years in overtime against a supposedly inferior opponent.
For all you idiots who think this is about the vikings…….read something besides the sports pages. To put it in a simple explanation that perhaps even a redneck can understand, it is about the NFL claiming to be more powerful than any State court in the land. Real simple analogy for you idiots…….Goodell gets ticketed in New York for DUI but argues that he can’t be tried in New York as he is “the NFL” and should only be able to be tried in a Federal Court, knowing full well that the Federal Court has absolutely no jurisdiction over the matter. If he were successful in getting it moved to a Federal Court, he would immediately argue that they have no jurisdiction thus the charge should be dismissed…….a simple analogy but for some posters it is all they can understand.
JimmySmith says: March 4, 2010 4:54 PM
Typical Viking BS, cheat, get caught, avoid consequences, get on the wrong side of karma, lose the NFC championship game in what can only be described as unusual circumstances and then act like you didn’t really deserve it.
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right, because the guy in the picture obviously has roided his way up to that size. what do you think, is pat down to about 9% body fat these days?
kibawib says:
March 4, 2010 5:18 PM
To: Charlie Wood (aka Packer Apologist).
Here are 4 things you forgot to mention:
The Vikings swept the packers.
The packers never sacked Favre.
The packers never intercepted Favre.
The Vikings advanced farther in the playoffs than the packers (nice defense Green Bay – EIGHT tds in one game?!?! LOVE the new 3-4!).
Suck THAT cheesehead!
Love it!!
I realize it may be beyond your comprehension Bob, but read the frigging order — removal was denied based on the issue of federal question jurisdiction and previous orders on the same issue. Or, in the alternative, if you want to feast your eyes on stupid decisions, just replay the two 2009 Vike-Pack games and watch MM’s coaching efforts.
All the more reason for the rest of the NFL to encourage Wilf to move his team out of that wacky state.
for all the idiots who keep saying “look at these guys… does it really look like these guys are on steroids” :
learn a little about steroids before you repeat the same foolish crap over and over …. steroids also aids in the healing and speeding up of the recovery time of an athlete from injuries ….. that has nothing to do with how fat a guy looks …. as in the case of these two pleasantly plump morons
and for all the idiots who keep saying they just took diuretics(tho laced with steroids) :
diuretics themselves are very dangerous for the human body so let’s cut the crap on this
“The Vikings advanced farther in the playoffs than the packers (nice defense Green Bay – EIGHT tds in one game?!?! LOVE the new 3-4!).”
That same 3-4 defense owned Adrian Peterson in two straight games against him.
“The Vikings swept the packers”
For the first time in, what, 2 1/2 years?
“Vikings have won the division the past couple of years.”
It’s funny seeing Viking ‘fans’ claim that they are the better franchise for winning the division the last two years when in reality, before last year, they didn’t win the division at all for 7-8 straight years.
Time to remind the Packer fans that their team is a joke and got pimp-slapped by Minnesota twice this year in front of national television audiences.
And it was a good thing for the Packers that their defense “owned” Adrian Peterson. . .first time they’ve actually slowed him down in three years. I would hate to think it could get any uglier than the 34 ppg the Vikings averaged against that sorry-ass, overrated defense in 2009. Yeah, the same defense that got half a hundred dropped on them in a playoff game.
Can’t wait for Favre to announce he’s coming back in 2010. . .it’s going to suck for Bear, Packer, and Lion fans to have to come to grips with the fact that they’re playing for second place and a wild card berth before we even start training camp.
Gregjennings85 says:
March 4, 2010 5:27 PM
12 Championships.
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14 years since the last one…..try to stay current…living in the past, you miss the present.
It’s not like the Packers have been relevant this decade either.
War cry of an idiot packer fan when they fall short..oh yeah? well, 12 trophies….pitiful and pathetic.
kibawib: WTF? 8 Td’s in one game? What game was that? Quit wearing your ass for a hat.
sadclown40: Speculating on next season doesn’t make your team any better… but it does make you look like another sad vikings assclown. let’s brag about the last two seasons shall we?? “YAAY!!! Last season we raided your trash pile AGAIN and this time it got us the same thing it got you guys!! One INT away from the SB!! YAAY!!!” You fuggin moron… if you want to run a comparison- let’s compare the last 2 decades… or better yet, how about the last 5. Silly me… there is no comparison. You guys SUCK and have nothing to show. Your city is filthy and your dome is crumbling. Clean up your act!!
And it goes right back to yesteryear for another Packer jagoff….
When your team sucks in the present, talk about the past….so very typical.
Thanks for using my asshat though. Can’t think up your own isults?
Quit biting the bubble in the bathtub when you fart you freaking moron. It could kill you.
If the Starcaps were so harmful & dangerous why didn’t the league have them on their list, when they knew for quite a while that they should be & the banned ingredient wasn’t listed. They are like a lot of large companies that claim to be looking out for their employees and don’t. I would think more people would like to see them lose.
if they are dumb enough to take the diuretic(star caps) thats on the fat boys…. as is anything that is dangerous for your body …. the league is looking to put an end to performance enhancing drugs …. wait to see if they can get it so they can test for HGH …. sure there ALOT of NFL players using HGH